Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for a project archivist. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A Project Archivist is responsible for managing and maintaining information and materials for a particular project. This position is the head of all the required information and acts as a safe where all the relevant data is safely stored in digital or material form.

The primary responsibilities include organizing training sessions on archival procedures, promoting the group's or departments work through presentations, talks and exhibitions, cataloguing collections and managing information and records, liaising with donors and depositors of archives, responding to all the enquiries from the members of the public and other users, advising users on the best methods to access, use and interpret archives, evaluating records for preservation and retention, handling, repairing and conserving the records some of which may be fragile to handle.

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

LISTENING SKILLS: Listening Skills are a practical ability to accurately receive and interpret messages you receive during the communication process to ensure flow and accuracy are maintained.

Does not maintain the required eye contact and appears not to be relaxed during a conversation.

Criticizes other people's way of delivering their content or views.

1

KNOWLEDGE OF JOB: Knowledge of Job is essential to every employee who needs to have a clear understanding of how their jobs fit into the overall organization to eliminate carelessness and laxity.

Asks one's supervisor what the expectations of a certain project are and works towards meeting those expectations

Researches things before hand and asks questions where appropriate in order to avoid making serious mistakes

2

NETWORKING: Networking is the process that encourages an exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share the same interests.

Moves on after an introduction because one believes that the other person is not good enough for one's business

Regularly forgets to keep a note of people one promised to follow up

1

APPEARANCE AND GROOMING: Appearance and Grooming are the way one presents themselves in a professional environment or the workplace with the aim of gaining positive impression and respect as well.

Highly inconsistent in enforcing and following the company policies and procedures

Fails to meet the company's policy on the personal hygiene standards

1

ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: Ethical Behavior is acting in policies that are consistent with what the society and individuals typically think are good morals or values.

Trains others on how to work professionally and uphold high standards of co-existing

Provides ongoing coaching to employees that increase their awareness on the importance of professional treatment in the workplace

2

POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT: The potential for Advancement is the ability to make something better by being more skillful, more efficient, and more useful to produce high-quality results.

Has established an easy way to meet all the company goals set

Manages time well and schedules tasks well spread in daily tasks

2

PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS: Project and Goal Focus is setting your mind and heart on things that matter and add value to your life against those things that add no value at all or of little value.

Underestimates completion time for the goals thus gets frustrated when things take more time to achieve than expected

Focuses on many different goals at once thus fails to give individual goals the attention and time they deserve

1

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Project Management is structuring a to-do list for your project or company containing tasks and responsibilities as well as creating a roadmap for the execution of those duties promptly.

Does not inform the client or key personnel involved when the project is facing problems such as production delays

Lacks time management skills; fails to monitor a project during its critical stages to find out if the project is on track

1

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.

Does not bother to implement parallel processing aimed at improving efficiency of processes

Ignores benchmarks and fails to complete processes in accordance with the already set standards

1

TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS: Technology Trend Awareness is staying updated with the useful upcoming trends that can serve your business better and easier.

Does not show willingness to learn more about new technology fields

Does little to advocate for the implementation of virtual reality techniques to improve training and engagement

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

LISTENING SKILLS:

How well do you assert your opinions and views when having a conversation with someone?

What are some of the distractions that you have that prevent you from having a good conversation with someone?

[employee comments]
KNOWLEDGE OF JOB:

How have you improved your knowledge of the job? In what ways have you helped other employees improve their knowledge of the job?

What is the most difficult and challenging thing about your job? How do you handle it?

[employee comments]
NETWORKING:

How do you make sure to keep in touch with a new contact after the first meeting?

How have you helped your networking partners to get to know each other and help each other out?

[employee comments]
APPEARANCE AND GROOMING:

Are you satisfied with what you wear and do you show too much flesh?

Have you taken into consideration the feedback you have received from your peers and staff?

[employee comments]
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR:

Can you be trusted with confidential information without leaking it out?

Do you give honor where it's due or do you withhold it from those who have done well?

[employee comments]
POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT:

Do you fully commit yourself to serve your company and do your best?

What strengths do you have that you can use to work better?

[employee comments]
PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS:

Is there a time when you have missed goals? What were those goals and why did you miss them?

How do you differentiate goals that are urgent from those that are important? Give an example

[employee comments]
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

What communication plans have you used to convey an important message to your team? How have you confirmed the accuracy of information received or sent?

Describe the most difficult project that you have ever managed. What made it difficult and how did you go about it?

[employee comments]
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT:

Is there any time you failed to set objectives when initiating process improvement efforts? How did you correct the mistake?

Have you ever failed to map existing processes and how did you correct the mistake?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS:

Are you making any efforts to learn more about internet security, privacy, and confidentiality?

What efforts are you making to get certifications in specialized technology fields?

[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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