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Path 5: Performance Appraisal

A personal effectiveness appraisal needs to take place every time a direct report completes a key task or brings a problem of a task assignment for reconsideration. This discussion provides an ongoing appraisal of the employee’s personal effectiveness. The manager’s collection of significant events of this kind is the basis for the manager’s periodic informal reviews. At a minimum, each direct report should have a midyear and annual review.

The formal annual appraisal meeting acts as a summary of the feedback and coaching meetings that have been held throughout the year. It is part of an ongoing process and should contain few, if any, surprises.

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