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

An Office Support Specialist is liable to fulfill a variety of roles including handling the company's paperwork and day to day operations.

The major roles for this position include ordering the office supplies, ensuring that the office equipment is fully functional, ensuring that the office supplies are well stocked as required, gathering and distributing mail, coordinating deliveries, providing general support to the management, filing and compiling the company's documentation, answering phones and taking messages, operating office machines, ,maintaining and updating filing, inventory, mailing and database systems, opening, sorting and routing incoming mail, answering correspondence and preparing outgoing mail, completing mail bills, contracts, policies, invoices and checks.

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

CRITICAL THINKING: Critical Thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally while understanding the logical connection between ideas in a reflective and independent thinking.

Does not take the time to consider all factors available before making a decision carefully.

Not willing and inflexible to change tact or strategy when the initial plan fails to achieve the desired effect

1

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.

Adheres to all company policies, rules, and regulations and ensures all those he leads follows the same path.

Always seeks to improve and improvise the effectiveness and efficiency of administrative tasks.

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.

Does not leverage the different personalities, weaknesses, strengths, ideas, and perspectives of teams members that would help one achieve success

Sets an endless series of meetings with the team members in which little is accomplished

1

SUPERVISORY SKILLS: Supervisory Skills is the ability to lead and manage people effectively in a difficult and challenging atmosphere in the day to day life.

Turns small problems into big issues sometimes involving the entire staff

Is not properly informed of the supervisory legal roles and responsibilities

1

ADAPTABILITY: Adaptability is the ability to cope with and adapt to unexpected situations in any environment and staying connected with a great attitude.

Offers to cover the responsibilities of a colleague while he/she is on vacation

Surveys clients about their experience with the company and modifies service delivery based on the findings

2

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

Gets started on major projects as early as possible, anticipates situations that may affect these projects and works to prevent them

Takes time to organize one's desk in order to ease the sense of losing control that comes from too much clutter

2

SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY: Self-Discipline and Sense of Duty is an active effort which helps in developing set ways for your thoughts, actions, and habits empowering your to stick to your decisions.

Takes credit for work done by someone else; misrepresents a product or service in order to get a sale

Disregards the company's policy thus brings potential harm to the company, customers, and other employees

1

DIVERSITY AWARENESS: Diversity Awareness is the understanding that people are different and unique in their particular way and respecting their uniqueness.

Dedicates little resources for supporting diversity and hardly communicates the value of diversity

Rarely participates in events that are diversity-related and makes little efforts to promote them

1

SCHEDULING: Scheduling is creating daily workflow charts that the employees are supposed to follow when working and submitting their projects.

Constantly fails to employ the best practices and standards when scheduling projects

Hardly creates a routine and fails to get repetitive tasks done efficiently

1

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.

Demonstrates little familiarity with computer security issues and copyright laws

Lacks enough knowledge on how to create, use, and troubleshoot computer networks

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

CRITICAL THINKING:

How well do you consider all the factors available before making your decision?

When expressing your ideas do you deliver them in a logical manner?

[employee comments]
ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS:

Do you think you are a good role model to your junior staff?

How well do you manage the pressures of your administrative position?

[employee comments]
COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS:

Can you describe a team experience which you have found rewarding?

Describe a time when you have had to work with a difficult team member. How did you handle it?

[employee comments]
SUPERVISORY SKILLS:

Have you discovered your strengths and identified areas that need improvement?

Are you good at decision making and dealing with confrontation?

[employee comments]
ADAPTABILITY:

Do you prefer an environment with a structured routine or one with new experiences?

When have you been forced to attend to an emergency in an unusual way and what was the outcome?

[employee comments]
HANDLING STRESS:

Give an example of a time when you have worked with a team that was facing a very stressful situation. How did you help the team members handle the situation?

Which specific areas in your current department do you find to be the most stressful?

[employee comments]
SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY:

Describe a task that required you to remain self-disciplined from the start to the end. How did you manage it?

Describe a time when you have been able to overcome a significant problem on an important project. How did you go about it?

[employee comments]
DIVERSITY AWARENESS:

Have you participated in events that are diversity-related and what efforts are you making to promote them?

Can you think of a situation where you failed to accept diverse views? How did you correct the situation?

[employee comments]
SCHEDULING:

Have you ever failed to add contingency time when scheduling and how did you correct the mistake?

How often do you balance work and life and how often do you schedule time for non-work related activities?

[employee comments]
COMPUTER SKILLS:

What efforts are you making to improve your typing speed and accuracy?

What efforts are you making to learn how to install different types of operating systems?

[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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