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

A claims specialist is responsible for investigating a customer's claim. They focus on finding if the client is covered by the company and the stake that the company will need to pay. He/she keeps all the records of the insurance holders and making a follow up when a claim is made.

Other responsibilities of the specialist include. He/she acts as the mediator between the insurer and the person insured or whose property has been insured with the company. They gather all the information from the claimants and ensures there are no inconsistencies. They participate in the claims processing, communicating with the claimant at every stage.

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

ORGANIZED WORKPLACE: Organized Workplace is a vital characteristic that helps the business to thrive for long term due to the sense of structure and order which efficiently promotes the team spirit.

Always shows great enthusiasm when it comes to handling work issues

Good knowledge of all work related items and can access them when need be.

2

NEGOTIATION SKILLS: Negotiation Skills are a deliberative process by which people settle their differences through an acceptable agreement to both parties to co-exist without argument and dispute in the workplace.

Shows commitment to the negotiation process and ensures that a deal is brokered in the end.

Keeps an open mindset during a negotiation process so ensure that an acceptable solution is arrived at.

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.

Tries to keep one's emotions reigned in even when there are serious disagreements between collaborators

Makes sure own goals determine the activities one chooses; avoids wasting time with activities just because they are fun

2

EMPATHY: Empathy is the understanding of another person's condition from their perspective by placing yourself in their shoes and feeling what they are feeling.

Makes the customer feel valued; offers trusted advice to customers who want to develop a long-term relationship with the company

Sets oneself the challenge of having a conversation with a stranger every week in order to understand life in another person's perspective

2

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

Has a proactive attitude that focuses on creating ideas for handling daily tasks or correcting issues

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

3

PERSONAL DRIVE: Personal Drive is a combination of desire and energy in its simplest form directed at achieving a goal in whatever you have set your heart to accomplish.

Takes responsibility for prior mistakes and works on ensuring that such mistakes will not happen again in the future

Remains positive and optimistic even when everything is not working or when a project does not meet expectations and urges others to do the same

2

USING COMMON SENSE: Using Common Sense is the ability to see what is missing in a situation or a project and supplying it without necessarily being assigned or asked to do it.

Tries new things in order to give oneself an opportunity to learn, make mistakes and experience from them

Takes a personality assessment in order to identify own tendencies and biases and how they influence own judgment, analysis, and decision-making

2

CUSTOMER SERVICE: Customer Service is the ability to cater for the needs of the client by providing excellent customer service without compromise.

Seeks assistance from colleagues when faced with a challenging question and avoids giving wrong answers

Puts more effort in providing feedback on time after a customer makes an inquiry

2

ANALYTICAL SKILLS: Analytical Skills is the ability to collect and analyze information, solve problems and make decisions according to the policies and regulations of the business.

Encourages others to think out of the box when coming up with a solution to solve a problem

Encourages others to use appropriate oral and written communication skills when sharing an analysis with others

2

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Product Knowledge is an essential sales skill to understand the features of your product allowing you to present the benefits compellingly and accurately to the customer.

Understands how to fix the most basic problems associated with a product

Makes effort to carry out research on customer experience offered by the products

2

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

ORGANIZED WORKPLACE:

Are you are reliable workmate? If yes, what have you done to show that?

What areas do you feel you need improvements when it comes to being organized at work?

[employee comments]
NEGOTIATION SKILLS:

Have you ever compromised to help reach an acceptable solution?

Have you ever backed out of negotiation process and what was the outcome?

[employee comments]
COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS:

Can you give the best example of a time when you worked cooperatively as a team member to complete an important task?

Can you describe a project you were working on, that required input from people in different departments or at different levels of the company? How did you go about it?

[employee comments]
EMPATHY:

Can you think of a time when you had to deliver less than ideal news? How did you go about it?

Why is it important for employees to show empathy towards each other as well as towards their customers?

[employee comments]
ATTENTION TO DETAIL:

Is there a time you identified an error that had been overlooked by a colleague? What did you do to fix it?

What tools/techniques do you use to check your work? Why do you use these tools/techniques?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL DRIVE:

Look back to when you were about seven years old. Is where you are now where you wanted to be?

Can you think of a time when the events or actions of a colleague adversely affected your personal drive? How did you cope with that?

[employee comments]
USING COMMON SENSE:

Describe a time when you have had an argument with your boss because you had not done something that required common sense. What was it and how did you defend yourself?

How do you go about making decisions? How do you calculate your next action when solving a problem?

[employee comments]
CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Were there any times you came across customers with special needs? How did you assist them?

What efforts are you making to gain more understanding about company products?

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

Can you think of a small problem you ever identified and solved before it could turn into a big problem?

What efforts are you making to search for the best sources of information?

[employee comments]
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE:

Were there any times where you were able to demonstrate how to use a product together with another?

Have you ever failed to demonstrate how a product can be integrated with another? 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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