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

A circuit court clerk is an officer whose primary role is to coordinate and guide operations of the circuit clerk office and to maintain all court records. He/she is also responsible for collecting and disbursing all court-related revenue.

Other duties include directing all the activities on reception, filing, preservation, and providing access to all documents of the state courts within a particular jurisdiction such as a county. He/she works together with the circuit court and others including the supreme and the appellate courts, creates policies to govern the operations of the courts and for improving compliance with the law and last but not the least; he/she maintains the integrity and confidentiality of the court records.

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

TEAMWORK SKILLS: Teamwork is the process of collaboratively working with a group of people with an aim to achieve a set goal within a business ensuring that the staff and management cooperate using their skills and provide constructive feedback.

Has a good way of solving team conflicts and ensures that peace and harmony are upheld.

Encourages other team members to continue to improve themselves and to do well at all time.

2

COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS: Collaborating is willingly working with one another and cooperating in whatever task one is assigned without behaving poorly or having an attitude change that hurts others.

Discusses issues honestly and keeps the discussion focused on how best one can adjust the situation at hand and move the collaboration forward

Keeps the team size balanced in order to maintain effective communication and teamwork

2

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

Analyzes the problem by researching and requesting evidence from people who have identified the problem or worked on it

Asks a variety of people with various backgrounds for responses in order to evaluate how majority of other people view the decision

2

DIPLOMACY: Diplomacy is the practice of conducting negotiations and influencing decisions and behaviors of different parties through dialogue, negotiation and other mature measures that are short of violence.

Takes the time to understand issues, words, people, or situations that can cause one to communicate without diplomacy

Shows sensitivity especially when addressing negative issues or situations that might involve negative emotions

2

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.

Manages and resolves disputes or conflicts in a constructive manner; encourages creative tension and differences of points of view

Develops networks across boundaries in order to build strategic business relationships and achieve common goals

2

MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Management Skills are also known as leadership skills and involve planning, decision making, delegation, time management and time management to ensure optimum organization in focus and the technical of how and why of accomplishing tasks.

Acknowledges the accomplishment of each employee while recognizing their contributions

Gains the employee's respect by respecting each one of them without favoritism

2

LEADERSHIP SKILLS: Leadership Skills are soft skills that assist leaders in positively interacting with employees or team members to make the workplace a great place.

Highly useful in bonding employees together to create a solid team

Motivates and encourages the team to take responsibility for their performance

2

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.

Creates time to reflect; looks back at failures and setbacks in order to identify and apply key learning for self and others

Remains confident, energized and enthusiastic in the face of very challenging and prolonged work demands

2

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Process Improvement is the creation of new processes or improving the existing ones that will work and take your corporation to the next level.

Puts more effort in monitoring processes to check for bottlenecks

Uses existing survey results to assess the impact of ongoing process improvement efforts

2

DATA ENTRY: Data Entry is a skill to key in information from various sources as directed by the management while keeping to the policies and procedures of the company and ensuring they are accurate.

Demonstrates above average computer skills and has knowledge in basic data entry software packages

Demonstrates willingness to learn how to transcribing documents and type up manuscripts

2

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

TEAMWORK SKILLS:

Give an example where you helped diffuse team tensions when there was an issue?

Give an instance you helped your team members to finish their tasks before the deadline?

[employee comments]
COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS:

Have you been rewarded in the past for successfully empowering a group of people in achieving a goal? If yes, what was the reward?

Is there a time when you have had to work with a team that did not get along? What did you do?

[employee comments]
DECISION MAKING:

Can you explain a difficult decision you have made regarding a project or task at work? What are some of the factors that influenced your decision-making process?

Can you give specific examples of decisions that you make rapidly and those that take more time?

[employee comments]
DIPLOMACY:

Can you give an example of one time when you have had to speak up in order to let people know how you felt about a certain situation?

Have you ever faced a situation that needed you to act very discreetly? How did you manage it?

[employee comments]
MANAGING AT TEAM:

Would you rather that your reporting staff respected you or feared you? Why? How would you inspire both reactions from them?

How do you go about getting cohesion among employees who disagree with everything you say?

[employee comments]
MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

How do you organize a department or the team to ensure they perform well?

What are the most important values you demonstrate as a leader?

[employee comments]
LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

Do you lead others where you are not willing to go?

Are you willing to learn new trends to equip you as a better leader?

[employee comments]
SELF AWARENESS:

Can you think of a situation where you felt you needed to modify or adjust your behavior? How did you go about it?

Can you list five things that you have learned about yourself in the last two years, that are relevant to how you work?

[employee comments]
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT:

Which techniques are you employing to identify bottlenecks in processes and the points at which improvements can be made?

How often do you attend think tank and ideation sessions to learn new ideas on improving processes?

[employee comments]
DATA ENTRY:

What measures are you putting in place to maintain data confidentiality?

What efforts are you making to improve your ability to work with different data entry software packages?

[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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