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

A Cloud Business Operations Specialist is liable for supporting and playing a significant role in technology planning and execution.

The primary duties of this position are defining cloud strategy for the company and translating into action, defining a multiyear cloud solution and infrastructure and security roadmap, managing enterprise cloud platform and performing migration from system center to other cloud environments, designing and governing security architecture in keeping with the standards and the policies, providing high level technical support for application and servers on virtual platforms, mentoring, implementation teams and conducting hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to developers/product managers, supporting and administration, resolving incidents affecting the operation.

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

PROBLEM SOLVING: Problem Solving is the skill of defining a problem to determine its cause, identify it, prioritize and select alternative solutions to implement in solving the problems and reviving relationships.

Finds it difficult to articulate issues in a clear and understandable manner.

Does not manage client-related issues in a professional manner and customers are left unsatisfied.

1

SEEING POTENTIAL PROBLEMS: Seeing Potential Problems is the ability to structure the current situations and identify developments that could cause problems in the future.

Trains every member of the team on good time estimation skills in order to maintain accurate schedules

Sits down with the management team every time something new is added to the project in order to determine its verdict

2

MANAGING DETAILS: Managing Details is the skill of paying close attention to details of every element of your job performance to ensure nothing is overlooked.

Exercises control over other employees and shows the unwillingness to welcome any factor that could change own methods of working

Jumps into conclusions instead of taking the time to dig into the situation at hand and find out the root cause

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.

Does not check own work for mistakes before submitting thus often delivers poor quality work

Does not communicate the importance of high standards to suppliers or check their products for quality

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.

Gathers knowledge to assist in modeling a process to make it work as expected

Makes effort to understand the cause of errors in processes and puts enough effort to correct the errors

2

TECHNOLOGY SAVVY: Technology Savvy is the introduction of the digital technology in the workplace as a strategy to make tasks run swiftly against doing them manually.

Makes effort to gain more knowledge on how to operate modern electronic devices

Encourages use of computers to execute repetitive, multiple, and complex tasks efficiently

2

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

Shows little interest to learn more about online confidentiality, privacy and security

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

1

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.

Lags behind in identifying a problem and is often unable to come up with an effective solution to a problem

Demonstrates little knowledge of working with numbers and figures and is often unable to interpret mathematical information

1

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Product Knowledge is an essential sales skill to understand the features of your product allowing you to present the benefits compellingly and accurately to the customer.

Demonstrates little outstanding understanding on how a product compares to rival products

Demonstrates little knowledge on how to use a product together with another

1

PROGRAMMING SKILLS: Programming Skills is the ability to use technical languages, tools, and operating systems professionally in the workplace.

Often fails to consider the needs of most users when designing a new program

Shows unwillingness to work in a team when designing complex programs

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

PROBLEM SOLVING:

How well do you solve issues and are you confident in your abilities?

Do you involve other people when trying to solve any particular problem?

[employee comments]
SEEING POTENTIAL PROBLEMS:

Is there a time when you have faced a huge problem that could have been prevented? How did you go about solving it?

How do you set projects deadlines and milestones to make sure that employees meet them successfully?

[employee comments]
MANAGING DETAILS:

How would you deal with a team member who is super detail oriented, that he/she always slows the team down?

What are some of the things you have done or skills you have acquired to improve your ability to manage details at work?

[employee comments]
QUALITY MANAGEMENT:

Describe a specific time when you have had to deal with a team member who constantly produced substandard work. How did you go about it?

What systems have you used to manage information and improve quality effectively? Would you recommend these systems to other companies?

[employee comments]
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT:

Which techniques are you employing to identify bottlenecks in processes and the points at which improvements can be made?

How often do you attend think tank and ideation sessions to learn new ideas on improving processes?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY SAVVY:

Have you ever utilized the power of modern computing power to assist you in making better decisions?

What are you doing to increase your capacity to operate modern electronic devices?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS:

What efforts are you making to implement the use of virtual reality techniques to improve training and engagement?

What are you doing to encourage more colleagues to participate in online tech communities where individuals share technology ideas?

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

What is the most complex analytical task you have ever undertaken?

How often do you encourage others to use appropriate oral and written communication skills when sharing an analysis?

[employee comments]
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE:

Can you think of a situation where you demonstrated your ability to fix problems associated with a product?

What efforts are you making to know the customer experience offered by a product?

[employee comments]
PROGRAMMING SKILLS:

What do you to ensure that your programming skills are current?

Can you describe a time when you saved time by designing a program to automate a process?

[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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