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

A sous chef takes charge of the kitchen when the head chef is not around due to his/her position of assistant to the master chef and may fill-in for the line cook when required. He/she conducts the day-to-day running of the kitchen and acts as a bridge between the master chef and the line cooks.

Other duties include supervising line cooks, scheduling kitchen staff, accounting for inventory in the kitchen, continuous training of staff, organization and cleanliness, preparing meals, ensuring quality of the food prepared, ensuring the right quantity of ingredients is used, allocating labor in kitchen stations, maintenance of equipment, controlling the cost of food as well as ensuring there is proper hygiene and sanitation.

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

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.

Avoids using insulting or negative language when one is around people; uses constructive criticism instead of putting people down

Does not pretend to know or understand something one doesn't know or understand

3

TEAM BUILDING: Team Building represents various types of activities used to enhance social relations and define roles within the different teams at the workplace.

Extremely well mannered, treating everyone with the dignity and respect they deserve

Encourages and motivates the right behavior when providing all with feedback

3

WORK ATTITUDE: Work Attitude is one's feelings towards and beliefs about one's job and their behavior that can tell how it feels to be there.

Always firm, determined and confident with a strong minded will not give up

Carries a positive viewpoint and ability to make sound decisions in stressful situations

3

EMOTION MANAGEMENT: Emotion Management is the ability to realize, readily accept and successfully control feelings on oneself and sometimes in others around you by being in complete authority over your thoughts and feelings that are generated whenever your values are touched.

Treats everyone at work with utmost respect and finds no need to reciprocate rudeness

Gets emotional support from coworkers and friends when emotions get out of control

3

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Emotional Intelligence is the capability to identify your emotions, understand what they are telling me and realize how the feelings are affecting you and the people around you.

Comfortably walks in someone else's shoe and craves understanding of other colleagues easily

Is an effective listener; always shows willingness to listen and understand colleagues objections

3

ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Attention to Detail is the capacity to achieve a thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task.

Is highly organized; plans effectively in order to avoid confusion when running different projects or performing tasks

Accurately analyzes and prioritizes details and catches details missed by other colleagues

3

CONSISTENCY AND RELIABILITY: Consistency and Reliability are the ability to be trusted to do what you do best all the time with or without supervision and without failure to produce results.

Does everything possible to make sure that one's performance is steady and strong, regardless of the situation

Is very efficient and productive in planning and executing work thus, can be counted on to meet deadlines

3

FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: Following Directions is the skill of carefully considering the given instructions and following them closely without fail.

Checks things off as one goes to make sure one does not miss anything and reviews the work after it is done

Immediately summarizes what one has heard and verifies the procedures and directions one has been given before starting a task

3

PRACTICAL THINKING: Practical Thinking is the skill to think creatively about projects or work that requires your full attention to be completed and to bring great results.

Makes lists, organizes things and uses a lot of detail in order to keep a problem in an orderly manner

Evaluates the situation at hand based on the information one has gathered in order to come up with suggestions on how to solve it

3

QUALITY OF WORK: The quality of Work is the value of work or products produced by the employees as well as the work environment they are provided with.

Trains employees at all levels about quality in order to make them know that they need to produce quality work regardless of their role in the company

Maintains a clear vision statement that communicates the company's core values and standards to both the employees and customers

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

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?

How do you reward employees whose work exceeds your expectations? Give an example of when this has happened

[employee comments]
TEAM BUILDING:

What is your personality? Does it hinder or encourage you to participate?

How effectively did you work together with others on this project?

[employee comments]
WORK ATTITUDE:

Are you focused on doing a thorough work on all tasks assigned without any complaint?

Do you give your work a personal touch that people can put know you did it?

[employee comments]
EMOTION MANAGEMENT:

What strategies have you taken in the past to prevent a situation from becoming too stressful for you to handle?

Is there a time a company policy hurt employees and you had to mitigate the negative consequences to employees?

[employee comments]
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:

Describe a time when you received feedback on your performance, and you had to disagree with it. How did you handle the situation?

Which is one of the most stressful situations you have had? How did you resolve the situation?

[employee comments]
ATTENTION TO DETAIL:

Have you been in a situation where you had an option to leave the details to others or take care of the details yourself? What did you do?

Are there times you have made huge mistakes due to not paying attention to details? What happened?

[employee comments]
CONSISTENCY AND RELIABILITY:

Describe a time when you took responsibility for an error and were held personally accountable. What happened?

Describe a time your workday ended before completing a task. Did you end up finishing the task? How did you do it?

[employee comments]
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS:

How do you help a colleague improve his/her ability to follow instructions?

Can you describe a time when you received complex instructions? How did you make sure you understood each and every detail?

[employee comments]
PRACTICAL THINKING:

Some situations require one to think in a practical manner while others require critical thinking. Can you give an example when you have used the two strategies to solve a problem at work?

Describe a project that was successful because of your ability to think practically. What was your role?

[employee comments]
QUALITY OF WORK:

What do you think your company should do to fix some of the most common quality-related issues?

Speed is important to complete work when one is under pressure. How do you make sure to work fast and maintain accuracy at the same time when working on a tight deadline?

[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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