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

A sales clerk is assigned the responsibility of performing retailing services to the company's or business customer to ensure that they get the best customer treatment while buying the products. He or she will engage the customers to ensure that they have the correct information to facilitate them make the best buying decision.

He or she also get to undertake the following roles; set up advertising displays, ensure that all the products have the correct pricing and tags, respond to customers questions, obtain and receive various client merchandise, manage selling point area, record and manage all sales records, handle and maintain all cash register, ensure that the clients receive their products in time and ensure proper stocking of all products.

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

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.

Ensures the project's or task's success through ongoing monitoring and communication as well as provision of credit and the required resources

Takes the time to prepare and develop the discipline to map out exactly what one is asking for

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.

Makes a list of all the good things in one's own life and uses it a boost whenever in need of an emotional boost

Derives strength and inspiration from role models and tries to emulate them in order to achieve personal goals

2

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

Redesigns various company's departments in order to meet long-term objectives

Sees beyond the current business model and suggests new ways of working that are different from competitors

2

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.

Operates as an effective representative of the company in both internal and external forums

Provides accurate advice on how to deal with difficult circumstances and how to avoid such circumstances in future

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.

Avoids talking when one knows that what they are thinking or want to say may be taken the wrong way or get one in trouble

Surrounds oneself with people who always seem to use common sense in order to improve own common sense skills

2

LONG RANGE PLANNING: Long Range Planning is setting long-term goals and objectives for your business or project to ensure its growth and sustainability is reached by all the employees.

Finds out the competitors' strengths and weaknesses and looks for ways to adopt or exploit them

Identifies strategies to improve customers' satisfaction and conducts surveys to find out if the strategies are working

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.

Takes the time to go over own weekly plans in order to know what is due and to avoid surprising appointments

Works backward from the desired results to create milestones that provide one with a sense of priority and vision in the short and long term

2

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.

Creates a recognition program and hands out bonuses in order to show appreciation for employees' hard work and attention to quality standards

Constantly tracks a project in its early stages to identify and fix errors that could affect the overall quality of the project

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.

Relies on technical tools to understand trends when analyzing data

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

2

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

DELEGATION:

Describe a time when you have had to deal with an employee who was not following your instructions on an assigned project. How did you go about it?

How do you make a decision to delegate work? How do you choose the appropriate employee to handle a certain task?

[employee comments]
ENTHUSIASM:

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

Is there a time when a task had to be completed, and you were able to focus your efforts and attention to get it done?

[employee comments]
CONCEPTUAL THINKING:

Describe a problem you were solving where you had to work with a concept that was abstract rather that tangible and concrete. What was the outcome?

Describe the steps and methods you have used to identify a vision for your department. What would you have done differently?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL DRIVE:

What role has your supervisor, manager or colleagues played in improving your personal drive in the workplace?

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:

What have you done to improve your ability to use common sense at work?

When is the last time you apologized to a colleague? What had you done and why did you feel the need to do this?

[employee comments]
LONG RANGE PLANNING:

How do you make sure that your long-term goals do not conflict with your short-term goals?

How have you helped your team members meet their long-term goals? How has this benefited the company at large?

[employee comments]
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS:

How have your organizational skills helped you manage your tasks and achieve your goals?

How do you differentiate tasks that bring you closer to your goals from those that don't add value to your goals? How do you treat both tasks?

[employee comments]
QUALITY OF WORK:

What are some of the programs you have initiated, if any, to train new employees on the company values and standards?

What courses, if any, have you taken to improve the quality of service you give to your customers? How has this benefited your company?

[employee comments]
CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Can you recall of any situations where customers made objections? How did you react?

Are there any instances where some customers declined following a queue? How did you correct such situations?

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

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

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

[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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