Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for a laboratory technician. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A Laboratory Technician is responsible for supporting laboratory staff by maintaining the glassware, supporting logs and record books, troubleshooting and solving problems helping with special projects.

The duties of this post are keeping laboratory supplies ready by keeping inventory stock, placing orders and verifying receipt, keeping equipment operating by following the operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, calling for repairs, documenting information by maintaining daily logs and equipment record books, resolving problems by examining and evaluating data, providing glassware by ordering, receiving and inventorying glassware, maintaining glassware by picking-up, cleaning, washing, sterilizing and distributing, completing projects by assisting project team, attending and participating in group and project meetings.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

FACILITATION: Facilitation is making tasks or life easy for others while ensuring the daily running of successful meetings or workshops or business at large.

Sets the start and end times of a meeting and communicates it to the team members before the actual meeting

Announces the structure of the group before starting a meeting so that every member can have the same expectations

3

COOPERATION WITH COLLEAGUES: Cooperation is the process of working with groups or teams for a common mutual benefit as opposed to working in competition or for selfish ambition.

Connects easily with everyone at the workplace building a team

Works well with management, co-workers, and team members to ensure accomplishment of set goals

3

SELF AWARENESS: Self Awareness is the ability to have a sound understanding of who you are as a person and how to relate to the world in which you live by understanding your strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them in the workplace.

Stays composed when presented with new instructions or faced with new situations and manages own negative emotions effectively

Is always positive; creates good personal and work habits and rejects the bad ones

3

SELF CONFIDENCE: Self Confidence is the ability to know who you are and what you are capable of doing which shows in your behavior, your body language, how you speak, etc.

Dresses well, maintains a good posture and makes eye contact when having a conversation with others in order to give the impression that one is in control

Looks for online courses and attends seminars in order to grow capabilities to counteract any feelings of inadequacy

2

PERSISTENCE: Persistence is the refusal to give up or let go of a firm or obstinate continuous course of action despite difficulties or opposition that you may face.

Examines the situations that might be leading to failure and works towards improving these situations

Always makes eye contact when restating a request or refusal

3

REALISTIC GOAL SETTING: Realistic Goal Setting is the skill to hone in the specific actions that we need to perform to accomplish everything we aspire to live.

Breaks a goal down into milestones in order to help make a plan for achieving it later on

Ranks goals in order of their importance and urgency when one has multiple goals on the list

3

SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY: Self-Discipline and Sense of Duty is an active effort which helps in developing set ways for your thoughts, actions, and habits empowering your to stick to your decisions.

Exercises gratitude in order to move away from constantly wanting what one doesn't have and towards appreciating what one has

Reframes mistakes into learning opportunities and keeps pushing towards achieving the set goals

3

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE: Business Etiquette is a basic framework of rules set by companies to ensure and allow you to understand the way you should conduct yourself in the professional world.

Makes minimal side conversations in meetings and puts the phone away in most meetings

Avoids criticizing others and accepts that everyone is trying their best

2

DIVERSITY AWARENESS: Diversity Awareness is the understanding that people are different and unique in their particular way and respecting their uniqueness.

Possesses the ability to create a common vision and works hand in hand with everyone when implementing programs

Implements exceptional strategies for attracting a fully diverse pool of applicants for vacant positions

3

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Technical Skills are the abilities and knowledge mostly related to mechanical, IT, scientific and mathematical needed to perform specific tasks in the workplace.

Possesses multiple certifications in a wide range of technical fields

Always a step ahead of others in working with new systems

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

FACILITATION:

What methods of communication have you used to pass information to group members?

What are some of the methods you have used to solve conflicts in your group?

[employee comments]
COOPERATION WITH COLLEAGUES:

Are you open to criticism both from management and coworkers?

What are your strengthens and how do you utilize them in the group?

[employee comments]
SELF AWARENESS:

Is there a time when you were surprised about the positive impact your words or behavior had on a colleague or client?

Is there a time when you said something to your supervisor and later regretted saying it? What did you do?

[employee comments]
SELF CONFIDENCE:

When is the last time you asked for assistance on a certain project from a colleague? What was the project?

Are there employees you consider more successful than you? How often do you have contact with them?

[employee comments]
PERSISTENCE:

Describe a time when your manager put pressure on you. Did you handle the pressure as well as you would have loved to?

What have you done in the past to become successful in achieving your goals?

[employee comments]
REALISTIC GOAL SETTING:

Describe step-by-step, how you go about setting your goals. How do you determine your goals' requirements?

How have you ensured that your goals are measurable, achievable, specific and timely?

[employee comments]
SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY:

Describe a task that required you to remain self-disciplined from the start to the end. How did you manage it?

How do you schedule your tasks and activities for the day in order to remain focused and motivated to accomplish them?

[employee comments]
BUSINESS ETIQUETTE:

Can you think of an instance where you felt you had raised your voice? How did you correct the situation?

Do you make introductions in meetings and do you introduce people according to their ranks?

[employee comments]
DIVERSITY AWARENESS:

Have you participated in events that are diversity-related and what efforts are you making to promote them?

What efforts are you making to assess whether the current procedures, practices, and policies are diverse?

[employee comments]
TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Can you describe a time when you saved time by applying your technical skills to automate a process?

What efforts are you making to learn new technologies and remain updated with technology?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:
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