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

The Cybersecurity Risk Auditor is liable for probing the safety and effectiveness of the computer systems and their related security components in a company.

The key responsibilities include defining cybersecurity strategy and action plans, applying, interpreting and developing security policies and standards, issuing detailed reports outlining the effectiveness of the system explaining any safety problems and suggesting changes and improvements, creating security management for all the operating systems in the company, leading the engagement with shared services and deliver required security solutions, responsible for operations and safety for all the sub-systems, ensuring new IT vendors are compliant with the rules and regulations as well as privacy requirements.

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

VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Verbal Communication is the use of tones and language to relay a message; it aids as a vehicle for expressing ideas, concepts and it, is critical to the daily running of the business.

Fails to explain unclear issues when having a conversation and does not find out if the other party understands.

Speaks too much and does not give room to others to talk or share their thoughts.

1

PHONE SKILLS: Phone Skills are useful to present a professional company image through the telephone to the customers while making them feel well informed and appreciated without necessarily seeing their faces.

Jots down key points whenever there is need to write them down for reference purposes.

Ensures to do callbacks to give responses and feedback if promised to do so earlier.

2

ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS: Administrative Skills are all the services related to the running of a business or keeping an office organized while supporting the efforts of the management team.

Does not know how to give feedback and is always ready to criticize those he/she leads.

Does not know how to use technology related equipment and processes properly.

1

GIVING FEEDBACK: Giving Feedback is one of the most powerful tools to develop employees and improve performance through honest feedback of the work done best and areas that need improvement.

Puts employees on the defensive by immediately blaming and shaming them thus they are not open to criticism

Waits for something to snowball into a bigger deal instead of addressing it as soon as it happens

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.

Carries a large amount of expertise on legal guidelines regarding equitable treatment of employees

Educates the employees to keep them acutely aware of the company standards, expectations, and values regarding fairness, honesty, and integrity

2

HANDLING STRESS: Handling Stress is the skill to balance the requirements of the job and your abilities or available resources in performing it.

Accepts help from trusted friends and family members in order to improve one's ability to manage stress

Makes to-do lists, prioritizes one's tasks and schedules enough time to complete each task in order to avoid stress from piled-up tasks

2

PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS: Problem/Situation Analysis is the ability to solve problems and assess situations to know what kind of solution is required to calm it down.

Spends time complaining about the problem at hand instead of looking for solutions and prevention of such a problem in the future

Jumps into solving a problem without enough information and facts thus generates solutions that are half-baked

1

QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Quality Management is the management approach to the long-term success through customer satisfaction that directly involves the employees in the continual improvement of the daily tasks.

Allows oneself to be distracted when performing a task that needs full concentration thus produces substandard work

Does not lead by example; always produces substandard work but asks others to produce quality work

1

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

Receives multiple customer complaints about failing to follow up on their inquiries as promised

Alienates customers with special needs and does not bother to attend to customers on a first come first served basis

1

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

Hardly knows how to use the internet to search for information

Hardly advocates for the implementation of modern technologies that assist in sharing and storing data efficiently such as cloud storage

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

VERBAL COMMUNICATION:

Who is the greatest orator that you admire and why do you admire them?

How do you prepare yourself before you talk to people and has it been of help to you?

[employee comments]
PHONE SKILLS:

How well can you rate the way you handle your phone call conversations?

Give an instance you had to talk to someone on the phone while in a loud place? How well did the conversation go?

[employee comments]
ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS:

Being in a leadership role, do you feel you influence those around you positively?

Give an instance, or example that you can say is your proudest moment of being in an administrative capacity?

[employee comments]
GIVING FEEDBACK:

Describe a time when you have helped an employee accept change and make adjustments necessary to move forward. How did you go about it?

How do you recognize and motivate employees who have constantly demonstrated excellent performance at work?

[employee comments]
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR:

Are you reliable to lead the team without showing favoritism to some members of the team?

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

[employee comments]
HANDLING STRESS:

Can you give examples of some of the things you have done to prevent a situation from becoming too stressful for you to handle?

What ways do you use to identify your stress triggers? What do you do to make sure that the same stressful situation does not reappear?

[employee comments]
PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Describe a time when you solved a problem without all the necessary information about it in hand. How did you go about it and what was the outcome?

Describe a time when you have found a creative way to solve a problem. How did you feel?

[employee comments]
QUALITY MANAGEMENT:

How do you ensure that your suppliers meet the company quality standards? How do you know when a product quality has dropped?

Describe a time when you had to deal with an angry client because you had delivered a poor quality product. How did you handle the situation?

[employee comments]
CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Are there any instances where customers asked irrelevant questions? How did you handle such customers?

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

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS:

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

Are there any times you had to seek for assistance on issues related to new technology trends?

[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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