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

A Senior Cytogenetic Technologist has the primary role of supervising technicians in the preparation, analyzing and examining of chromosomes in biological specimens including blood, bone marrow, and amniotic fluids in diagnosing and treating genetic diseases fertility problems, congenital disabilities, and hematological disorders.

Other duties include planning, coordinating, and organizing activities in the laboratory; planning, implementing, and reviewing quality control systems for high-quality results; maintain laboratory equipment and purchase new equipment when needed; monitor operations in the laboratory to ensure they comply with the set departmental, governmental and accreditation regulations as well as implement laboratory procedures, safety practices, and protocols to ensure safety standards are met, and there is proper patient care.

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

Mentally prepares oneself by having a good night sleep and doing deep breathing exercises before having a group meeting

3

INSPIRING OTHERS: Inspiring is encouraging one to be their best in contributing to the vision of an organization where they are placed and entrusted to work.

Does not let people one is trying to inspire to see them when one gets really angry or really upset

Is willing to listen to feedback about oneself and look for ways that one can grow and improve

3

DECISION MAKING: Decision Making is the art of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information and assessing alternative resolutions before settling on one.

Understands the desired outcome of a given situation at work, works backward and takes steps to achieve that outcome

Looks for underlying issues that are not resolved or that may be complicating one's ability to make wise decisions

3

SUPERVISORY SKILLS: Supervisory Skills is the ability to lead and manage people effectively in a difficult and challenging atmosphere in the day to day life.

Develops an environment of providing motivation and encouragement to all employees equally

Stimulates productive discussion sessions with the workforce for a decisive action plan

2

COMMITMENT TO THE JOB: Commitment to the Job is the feeling of responsibility that a person has towards a mission and goals of an organization.

Observes punctuality at all times and is always at the right place at the right time

Has speedy and effective resolution of customers' issues and complaints and often tracks customers' satisfaction

3

GOAL AND OBJECTIVE SETTING: Goal and Objective Setting is the strategic plan that is set and laid down identifying how goals should be accomplished, by who and by what time.

Develops a unit of measurement for key goal results in order to know when one has accomplished own goals

Sets realistic goals, believes that one can achieve them, and eliminates negative thoughts that can bring one down

2

RESOURCE USE: Resource Use is the ability to utilize the office supplies effectively while avoiding any wastage and ensuring everything is used correctly.

Creates a single resource pool for all projects in order to have a better visibility and accuracy of resource availability and utilization

Develops a workers' incentive program that limits turnover and builds continuity in own resource pool for effective planning

3

BUSINESS ETHICS: Business Ethics is the ability to learn what is right and wrong in the world of business and choosing to do what is right at all times.

Listens carefully to the concerns of others regarding fairness and takes remedial actions where necessary

Communicates expectations and standards clearly regarding equal treatment of everyone

3

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE: Intercultural Competence is the knowledge and skills to successfully interact with people from other ethnic, religious, cultural, national and geographic groups.

Values the differences that exist between individuals and groups and is fully aware of interaction between cultures

Fully understands people with diverse cultural backgrounds and provides a cohesive environment for everyone

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.

Trains others in an area of expertise and always shares knowledge with colleagues

Always a step ahead of others in working with new systems

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

FACILITATION:

Is there a time when you have faced challenges when coordinating a group? How did you overcome the challenges?

Is there a time when you assigned different tasks to group members, but the work was not done as you expected? What do you think was the problem? How did you fix it?

[employee comments]
INSPIRING OTHERS:

People observe what you do more than they listen to how you speak. How do you ensure that your actions inspire others at work?

Describe a time when you felt you were able to inspire other employees in a big way. What did you do?

[employee comments]
DECISION MAKING:

Can you describe a time when you have had to postpone a project because you did not have the right information to come to a good decision?

How do you involve your bosses and other employees when making an important decision?

[employee comments]
SUPERVISORY SKILLS:

Have you discovered your strengths and identified areas that need improvement?

Do you have a laid out plan on how to ensure you reach each employee individually?

[employee comments]
COMMITMENT TO THE JOB:

What are some of the things that get you dedicated and devoted to your work?

Have you ever been overloaded with work? How do you manage your work so that it gets done on time?

[employee comments]
GOAL AND OBJECTIVE SETTING:

Describe one of the greatest accomplishment in your career life. What are some of the challenges you faced along the way?

What do you look for in team members when setting goals for the team? How do you keep track of your team goals?

[employee comments]
RESOURCE USE:

How do you make sure that your team members have all the skills needed to accomplish a certain task?

Describe a time when you identified a project that was consuming more company resources than needed. What did you do with the project?

[employee comments]
BUSINESS ETHICS:

How do you avoid temptations to use dishonest data, figures, and facts to support conclusions?

What have you done to enhance your knowledge and understanding about fairness, equality, respect, integrity and honesty?

[employee comments]
INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE:

What are you doing to increase links to networks of individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds?

Are you actively involved in professional development courses and forums that enhance intercultural competency?

[employee comments]
TECHNICAL SKILLS:

What are you doing to improve your ability to troubleshoot and maintain basic devices and machines?

Have you ever failed to follow technical instructions when using a new system? What did you do to improve?

[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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