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

A head sous chef manages the kitchen and ensures that it runs smoothly by taking charge of its operations under the leadership of the head chef. He/she is in charge of the kitchen staff and makes sure that the food is of high quality as well as taking charge when the head chef is away.

Other responsibilities include scheduling kitchen staff, making sure quality ingredients are used, ensuring cost standards of food are maintained, planning the menu, purchasing ingredients, taking charge of supplies, controlling the inventory, ensuring that safety standards are maintained in the kitchen and sanitation rules are observed, maintain communication with staff, discover and train kitchen talent and ensure kitchen equipment is functional.

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

PUBLIC SPEAKING: Public Speaking though closely related to presenting differs in that it is the process of performing a speech before a live audience with the purpose of informing, persuading or entertaining.

Knows how to use a story well to pass a point across much easier.

Talks in a balanced and easy way that is not too fast or too slow.

3

MOTIVATING OTHERS: Motivating is using persuasion, incentives and mental or physical stimulants to influence the way people think or behave individually or in groups.

Keeps track of one's tasks and chores and ticks them off when finished in order to see how much one has done in a day and how much one needs to do

Quickly replaces negative thoughts with positive ones; stays positive even when things are not working as expected

3

MANAGING AT TEAM: Managing is the administration of an organization which includes activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of the employees to accomplish its objectives.

Inspires and fosters team's commitment and trust, facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish team goals

Is open to change and new information; quickly adapts to new information, unexpected obstacles or changing conditions

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.

Has a high positive impact on those around encouraging and motivating them to do their best

Always carries a positive mindset that is frequently accompanied by an excellent posture

2

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.

Holds off all communication; never replies to conversations or makes decisions while angry

Knows how to handle emotions at the moment rather than suppressing them

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.

Understands one's own strengths and weaknesses, and is able to handle and learn from constructive criticism

Is effective at persuading and convincing colleagues especially when the stakes are high

3

ENJOYMENT OF THE JOB: Enjoyment of the Job is the ability to enjoy what you do rather than enjoying what you earn from it.

Hardly ever looks at the clock; is always too busy making things happen thus finds time moving faster

Leaves work with items on one's to-do list and is excited about tackling the items the following day

3

PERSONAL COMMITMENT: Personal Commitment is an obligation that you have voluntarily agreed to fulfill without being cajoled or threatened and are willing to be held accountable for the results.

Arms oneself with all the tools needed to accomplish one's goals to avoid getting distracted

Takes one step at a time; refuses to miss a task assigned to oneself no matter what is happening in one's life

2

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 sure that one has a good grasp of the situation at hand and the tools with which one can solve it

Investigates things for oneself rather than assuming that the other person knows what he/she is talking about

3

MANAGING DETAILS: Managing Details is the skill of paying close attention to details of every element of your job performance to ensure nothing is overlooked.

Maintains a schedule, calendar, checklist, etc. in order to ensure that small but important details are not overlooked

Estimates how long it takes to perform a routine task and sets aside a specific amount of time for that task each day

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

PUBLIC SPEAKING:

How well do you prepare yourself before delivering a speech before an audience?

How well do you manage your nervousness and tension before you give a talk?

[employee comments]
MOTIVATING OTHERS:

What types of tasks or projects do you enjoy doing the most? Why?

How do you motivate others to accomplish their goals? Give an example of when this happened

[employee comments]
MANAGING AT TEAM:

Have you ever been appointed to manage a team? If yes, describe the role you played in the team's success

What are the two most important values that you demonstrate as a manager? Describe a time when you have demonstrated these values in the workplace

[employee comments]
WORK ATTITUDE:

Do you allow others to air their opinions or give you new ideas you can implement?

How do you handle workplace stress and work related pressures?

[employee comments]
EMOTION MANAGEMENT:

What is the most stressful situation you have ever found yourself in at work and how did you handle it?

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

[employee comments]
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:

Can you think of a time when you said or did something that had a positive impact on a colleague or client? What was it?

Why is it so important to build trust and rapport with colleagues? How do you develop the two in the workplace?

[employee comments]
ENJOYMENT OF THE JOB:

When you have extra time available in the workplace, what ways have you found to make yourself more productive?

Do you prefer working as part of a team or alone? Given a choice, what percentage of your time would you allocate to each?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL COMMITMENT:

Sometimes you have to sacrifice some things in life in order to get what you want. What are some of the things you have sacrificed in the past in order to accomplish your goals?

Describe a project that was implemented because of your personal commitment. What was your role in the project?

[employee comments]
PRACTICAL THINKING:

Describe a situation that required you to think practically at work. What steps did you take to accomplish this?

What have you done to improve your practical thinking skills? How has this helped your career life?

[employee comments]
MANAGING DETAILS:

How do you manage distractions at work? Describe a time when a project or task you were working on faced a major distraction

How do you organize your tasks to know which one comes first and what follows next? What tools, if any, have you used?

[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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