Preface

Performance reviews are a delicate matter. Most managers want to write good, fair, and professional performance appraisals, but it’s not always easy to find the “perfect phrase.”

This book makes it easy by providing hundreds of “perfect phrases” managers can use on performance appraisal forms, to describe the performance of any employee in 74 skill areas-from “Accuracy” to “Initiative” to “Productivity” to “Time Management Skills. “Managers can choose phrases from five performance levels that are used on many performance appraisal forms:

1. Outstanding

2. Exceeds Expectations

3. Meets Expectations

4. Needs Improvement

5. Unacceptable

The phrases include general descriptions of employee performance, such as “shows strong initiative," as ...

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