Managing Your Career: Leveraging the Performance Appraisal


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
The performance appraisal process just may be the most valuable tool you have to advance your career. Unfortunately, employees often don't recognize the opportunities they have to benefit from their performance appraisals. Instead, they regard the whole process as something to dread and avoid. They frequently misunderstand the feedback they're given and refuse to see the appraisal as a career enhancement tool. This course explains the value of learning how to manage the performance appraisal process on a year-round basis and tips for using formal and informal performance appraisal to the best advantage. The course also outlines how implementing periodic appraisal strategy can be used to move your career forward. Recognizing and controlling the damage of a bad appraisal is also covered. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.

Target Audience
Employees at all levels who want to advance their career

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Managing Your Career: Leveraging the Performance Appraisal

  • determine whether a given employee has adequately prepared for a formal performance appraisal
  • recognize strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of a formal performance appraisal
  • recognize how to implement the periodic appraisal strategy appropriately
  • Course Number:
    pd_10_a05_bs_enus