Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for a claims specialist. Find the right words with quality phrases.
A claims specialist is responsible for investigating a customer's claim. They focus on finding if the client is covered by the company and the stake that the company will need to pay. He/she keeps all the records of the insurance holders and making a follow up when a claim is made.
Other responsibilities of the specialist include. He/she acts as the mediator between the insurer and the person insured or whose property has been insured with the company. They gather all the information from the claimants and ensures there are no inconsistencies. They participate in the claims processing, communicating with the claimant at every stage.
Employee Performance Review Sample | |
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| Employee's Name: | Title: |
| Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ | Employee SSN: |
| Work Location: | Supervisor's Name: |
Instructions |
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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 |
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| ORGANIZED WORKPLACE: Organized Workplace is a vital characteristic that helps the business to thrive for long term due to the sense of structure and order which efficiently promotes the team spirit. | Maintains an untidy and disorganized workspace area with personal effects not well kept. Difficult coming up with workable solutions to basic workplace problems. | 1 |
| NEGOTIATION SKILLS: Negotiation Skills are a deliberative process by which people settle their differences through an acceptable agreement to both parties to co-exist without argument and dispute in the workplace. | Exudes a great wealth of knowledge and present concrete facts while negotiating. Uses great verbal communication abilities to try to pass ideas across in a clear manner. | 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. | Is not clear when setting roles and responsibilities for the team thus team members end up getting confused on who is doing what Is unwilling to assume leadership roles within the group or help in facilitating team goal setting | 1 |
| EMPATHY: Empathy is the understanding of another person's condition from their perspective by placing yourself in their shoes and feeling what they are feeling. | Often loses focus when answering a question and feels under pressure to come up with an answer, whether appropriate or not Ignores and hides the emotional content in a conversation with colleagues making them not to open up fully | 1 |
| ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Attention to Detail is the capacity to achieve a thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task. | Takes time to research and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of competing companies Creates a detailed work plan that outlines each key job functions and uses it as a guide when one gets distracted or interrupted | 2 |
| PERSONAL DRIVE: Personal Drive is a combination of desire and energy in its simplest form directed at achieving a goal in whatever you have set your heart to accomplish. | Operates as an effective representative of the company in both internal and external forums Monitors one's own emotional responses and remains controlled at all times | 2 |
| USING COMMON SENSE: Using Common Sense is the ability to see what is missing in a situation or a project and supplying it without necessarily being assigned or asked to do it. | Jumps into a new situation assuming that one knows just what to do and ends up making terrible mistakes Does not make any effort of learning new things in order to improve own common sense skills | 1 |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE: Customer Service is the ability to cater for the needs of the client by providing excellent customer service without compromise. | Receives substandard feedback from most customers and is viewed as the not to go to person Alienates customers with special needs and does not bother to attend to customers on a first come first served basis | 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. | Does not understand how to work with graphical information and does not know how to use graphical software Possesses little understanding about the reliable data collection techniques and ends up analyzing inaccurate data | 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. | Does not know how to install and configure most products Hardly understands how a product addresses the needs of a client | 1 |
Self Evaluation | |
Self Evaluation Question | Employee Comments |
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| ORGANIZED WORKPLACE: Are you are reliable workmate? If yes, what have you done to show that? Is there teamwork in the organization? How do teams perform when assigned tasks and projects to handle? | [employee comments] |
| NEGOTIATION SKILLS: When negotiating how well do you take charge of the process? Have the results of any negotiation process gone against your expectations? | [employee comments] |
| COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS: Can you describe a team experience which you have found rewarding? Can you describe a project you were working on, that required input from people in different departments or at different levels of the company? How did you go about it? | [employee comments] |
| EMPATHY: Can you think of a time when you had to deliver less than ideal news? How did you go about it? Describe a time when you were able to strengthen a relationship between colleagues using effective communication. What made your communication effective? | [employee comments] |
| ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Describe a time when you were confused by a client's request. What process did you use to clarify things? Are there times you have made huge mistakes due to not paying attention to details? What happened? | [employee comments] |
| PERSONAL DRIVE: Describe how you demonstrate personal drive at work. What have you done to improve your personal drive? If you were asked to supervise your colleagues, how would you interact with them in order to help them find their personal drive? | [employee comments] |
| USING COMMON SENSE: Describe a time when you have had an argument with your boss because you had not done something that required common sense. What was it and how did you defend yourself? How do you go about making decisions? How do you calculate your next action when solving a problem? | [employee comments] |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE: Is there a time when you were asked a question and you were unable to answer? Did you seek assistance? Are there any instances where some customers declined following a queue? How did you correct such situations? | [employee comments] |
| ANALYTICAL SKILLS: Can you recall any problem you solved that required analyzing complex and large volumes of data? Can you describe a situation where your analytical outcome was incorrect? How did you solve the problem? | [employee comments] |
| PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: What are you doing to enhance your understanding of industry trends, terminologies, and concepts surrounding a product? What efforts are you making to know the customer experience offered by a product? | [employee comments] |
Summary |
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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. | |
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| Supervisor: | Date: |
| Human Resources: | Date: |