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

A Receptionist is liable for serving visitors by greeting, welcoming and directing them appropriately and notifying company personnel of visitor arrival.

The duties of this position are welcoming visitors by greeting them in person or on the telephone, answering or referring inquiries, directing visitors by maintaining employees and department directories, maintaining security by following procedures, monitoring logbook issuing visitor badges, maintaining telecommunication system by following manufacturer's instructions for house phones and console operation, maintaining safe and clean reception area by complying with procedures, rules and regulations, maintaining continuity among work teams by documenting, and communicating actions, irregularities and continuing needs, contributing to team effort by accomplishing related answers as needed.

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

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.

Prefers doing things on one's own; Does not listen to team members' ideas on how to solve a problem or improve a situation in the group

Does not understand the importance of setting goals or contributing solutions to problems

1

APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them.

Gives beneficial feedback that allows employees to improve in areas that need

Does not compromise on the quality of the company's policies when evaluating the performance of each individual

2

CREATIVITY: Creativity is the skill of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality through the ability to perceive the world in new ways, find hidden patterns, make connections between unrelated phenomena and generate solutions.

Approaches problems with an old mindset which do not solve today's problems

Very comfortable thinking inside the box and rarely challenges assumptions

1

DEDICATION TO WORK: Dedication to Work is a devotion or setting aside the scheduled time that you are required to work each day consistently without fail as well as being on time and giving 100% of your efforts to doing quality work.

Speaks negatively about the business but positively about the co-worker's competition

Gets into trouble for demoralizing other workers who are giving it their best

1

COMPETITIVENESS: Competitiveness is the skill of being able to compete as a team or a company with other enterprises in the same line of entrepreneurship and emerging as the winner.

Joins associations with like-minded professionals to help create relationships that can help tap new, exciting ideas into the business

Builds an "I can do better" mentality and always works hard to proof that fact

2

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

Speaks up diplomatically and calmly if one has too much to handle

Makes sure to have one or two colleagues who are willing to assist in the time of stress in order to reduce one's stress level

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.

Blames others for own unfortunate decisions and actions rather than accepting responsibility for own behavior

Focuses own efforts on irrelevant tasks and fails to do what actually needs to be done

1

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE: Business Etiquette is a basic framework of rules set by companies to ensure and allow you to understand the way you should conduct yourself in the professional world.

Shows up late for meetings, rarely prepares for meetings, and misses most meetings

Shows minimal interest in building and nurturing relationships and is always too busy to meet others

1

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

Shows frustration when a customer asks too many questions and lacks patience with customers who ask irrelevant questions

Ignores customers with unrealistic demands and makes little attempts to negotiate with them to reach a middle ground

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

Shows little willingness to accept feedback, learn, and listen to concerns of others

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS:

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

Is there a time when you have had to work with a team that did not get along? What did you do?

[employee comments]
APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS:

How do you balance quality and quantity in terms of the performance?

Do you concentrate so much on the negative and forget the positives?

[employee comments]
CREATIVITY:

Do you enjoy thinking creatively and innovatively as well as creating new solutions?

Do you believe you have now the experience to make better decisions in situations where you've done wrong ones?

[employee comments]
DEDICATION TO WORK:

Do you criticize the company or work hard to give it your level best?

Do you agree with your supervisors view on areas you need to change?

[employee comments]
COMPETITIVENESS:

What are some of the things you have done to help co-workers improve their professional competitive skills?

Mention a time you made an intentional effort to get to know someone from another culture. What was the result?

[employee comments]
HANDLING STRESS:

Can you describe a situation at work that really stressed you out to the maximum? How did you handle it?

What steps have you followed in the past to avoid distractions at work and remain positive-minded?

[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?

What would your boss or team members say about your behavior at work?

[employee comments]
BUSINESS ETIQUETTE:

Are you making any efforts to build and nurture relationships and do you create time to meet people?

What efforts are you making to improve your listening skills?

[employee comments]
CUSTOMER SERVICE:

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

Are there any instances where you delayed responding to a customer and did you give any explanations for the delay?

[employee comments]
DIVERSITY AWARENESS:

What have you done to increase your understanding of the perspectives of others?

What efforts are you making to assess whether the current procedures, practices, and policies are diverse?

[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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