How am I Doing?: The Perfect Appraisal Interview

Introduction

Get it right and the appraisal interview offers managers a golden opportunity to identify problems and opportunities, motivate their team and improve performance. But mishandling the interview can create the very opposite effect - disenchanted and alienated staff and plummeting productivity.

How Am I Doing? The Perfect Appraisal Interview explores how the appraisal process can be used to benefit both the individual and the business. The course shows how to prepare for the interview, how to focus on the right areas and how to agree a follow-up action plan. Once they have completed the course, managers will have valuable new skills in place to help them carry out more successful and effective performance reviews.

This course is structured around a series of engaging video clips featuring Dawn French and Meera Syal. Key messages are delivered with simplicity and impact, making learning more memorable.

Who is the course for?

How am I Doing?: The Perfect Appraisal Interview is suitable for managers and team leaders that need to provide feedback and conduct performance reviews, but have limited knowledge of how to conduct and effective appraisal.

This course is appropriate to any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not require any prior experience.

What will you get from this course?

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

• understand the benefits of good appraisals
• understand why appraisals can go wrong and how to avoid these errors
• understand why preparation is essential to ensuring a good appraisal
• follow the six rules for giving constructive criticism
• agree an action plan for the next review period

Course features

Famous faces including Dawn French and Meera Syal will show you how to and how not to approach and conduct an effective appraisal interview. The course follows three inept managers unsuccessfully trying to review an employee's performance. The first never prepares or makes time, the second does not listen and, the last manager is too timid to confront any performance issues. As the employee becomes a manager he is able to learn from others' mistakes and adopt the skills he needs to carry out his own staff appraisals.

Set in everyday surroundings, well-known performers act out realistic situations in a light hearted and entertaining way that will help you recognise some common errors and understand how to correct them. The familiar settings and witty role play will help you to apply the material to your own workplace.

Before you begin the course, you'll take a short test to help identify any knowledge gaps. As you work through the course, you'll be presented with simple exercises to check your learning. At the end there is a 15 question quiz to help sum up what you have learned.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. The course is available for six months from the date first accessed.

Course Code

104198BT037

Other courses you might be interested in

Assert Yourself: Learning to be Assertive, Performance Review: Every Appraisee's Dream, Team Spirit? How to Be an Effective Team Member

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