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

A Senior Copywriter leads the creative team in producing ad copies that assist clients to achieve their goals by producing a clear message from even the most challenging brief. He/she generates original content for advertising, promoting and educating the consumers about the goods and/or services of the organization.

Other related duties include analyzing the needs of the client for the products or services being promoted, producing an original ad copy and tailor it to the client's needs and the audience, liaise with product managers and design departments to create the copy, develop creative strategies to meet the campaign objectives, oversee the copies produced by team member and give feedback if required and give clients exciting and fresh ideas.

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

WRITING SKILLS: Written Communication involves the interaction that makes use of the written word with precision and logic making it the very common form of business communication.

Listens to feedback from critics and tries to implement the review given.

Shows good critical thinking abilities when writing for different contents.

2

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

Asks one's boss for more responsibilities in order to broaden one's skill set and keep one stimulated and motivated to work

Changes up own routine with a new, fun hobby in order to release tension after work

2

DELEGATION: Delegation is assigning responsibility or authority to another person a junior or subordinate to carry out specific activities while remaining accountable for the outcome.

Explains the specific goals for each task and how one will know whether or not an employee has accomplished the goal

Asks the person assigned the task to paraphrase the assignment or request in their own words to make sure that they understand what they are supposed to do

2

PLANNING AND SCHEDULING: Planning and Scheduling are the act of establishing a plan for a set of tasks that needs to be completed and including when they should be done.

Supports the company plans with all the necessary documentation as well as filing them for future use

Regularly sets aside ample time to organize and plan the workload without favoritism

2

ENTHUSIASM: Enthusiasm is an intense enjoyment or a lively interest in a certain thing with a zest and a strong belief that can be felt by those around you.

Is not easily demotivated by temporal crisis; still enjoys working even when all is not well in the workplace

Does not dwell on the negative; does not think about past mistakes or things that cannot be changed

3

CONCEPTUAL THINKING: Conceptual Thinking is the ability to recognize a situation or problem by identifying patterns or connections while addressing the underlying issues.

Identifies and shares with other employees short-term strategies to overcome problems or take advantage of opportunities

Understands the impact of changing customers' needs to the future of the company

2

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS: Organizational Skills is the ability to make use of time, energy and resources available in the most efficient manner to achieve their goal.

Pays attention to the task at hand in order to prevent own mind from wandering and be more productive

Identifies own most productive times and uses them to accomplish important or complex tasks before embarking on the simple tasks

3

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

Understands a good number of data collection techniques and makes an effort to collect the right information

2

COMPUTER SKILLS: Computer Skills are the necessary computer working skills that each employee need to have while seeking to get admitted into the professional world.

Shows willingness to learn how to create, use, and troubleshoot computer networks

Understands the importance of being familiar with computer security issues

2

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.

Shows interest to understand how complex systems and processes work

Understands how to follow technical specifications when designing new systems

2

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

WRITING SKILLS:

Do you normally counter check your work for grammatical errors before submitting?

How many books have your read so far and what is your preferred genre of writing?

[employee comments]
MOTIVATING OTHERS:

What is one of the lowest points you have had at work? What did you do to remain motivated and accomplish your goals?

What is the biggest goal you have ever accomplished? Why do you consider it the biggest? Describe the problems you faced, if any

[employee comments]
DELEGATION:

What are some of the techniques or methods you have used to ensure effective delegation?

How do you deal with an employee who does not deliver a project on the agreed time?

[employee comments]
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING:

Do your planning skills need improvement or are they ready to go?

What area can you help in the scheduling of time and workload?

[employee comments]
ENTHUSIASM:

Think of a time you had an idea and you got other employees to follow you. What was the idea?

Describe a time you did more than was required of your job description. How did you feel about that?

[employee comments]
CONCEPTUAL THINKING:

Can you give an example of when you integrated seemingly unrelated information in order to anticipate a problem or analyze a situation?

Give an example of a problem you solved when important facts were unavailable. What was the outcome? How was this problem affecting other employees?

[employee comments]
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS:

What are some of the tools that you have used to organize your tasks at work? Would you recommend these tools to other employees?

Describe a time when you have missed an important commitment because you had not put it on schedule. What did you do?

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

What steps do you follow when studying a problem before making a final conclusion

How often do you encourage others to think outside the box when trying to solve a problem?

[employee comments]
COMPUTER SKILLS:

Have you ever tried to create a computer network unsuccessfully? How did you solve the challenges faced?

Have you ever tried to use computer aided design techniques and failed? What did you do to succeed?

[employee comments]
TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Have you ever made suggestions that improved an existing technical system?

Have you ever attempted to apply your technical skills to create a new and working system from scratch?

[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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