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Manager Resources: Employee Performance Reviews
Providing Feedback

‹ Creating Expectations | Conducting Annual Reviews ›

Providing effective feedback to your team members is essential to their success and the achievement of your objectives. It is a key element needed to fully engage each employee’s talent; essential to creating an environment wherein individuals are encouraged to succeed and grow as professionals.

Developing Others is considered an important competency for all managers at UIC.

Your Role in the Coaching Process

Provide continuous feedback throughout the year. In addition to conversations with individual employees about their professional development, encourage your team members to utilize the Continuous Improvement: Manager Feedback (.DOC) form to provide structured feedback. You will also find these forms a helpful reference at the end of the year during the Annual Employee Performance Review.

Managers and supervisors should address performance issues when they occur and provide constructive guidance on how to improve skills and competencies. Effective feedback is timely, specific, and relevant to performance. It is constructive, that is, it provides an opportunity to the employee for action. While providing feedback give necessary guidance and instructions for employees to address work expectations.

Utilize the resources found on MyCareer to identify and recommend learning opportunities appropriate to the development needs of your employees.

Resources

Instructor Led Courses
Leadership Essentials, a two-day training session, is designed to provide new managers and supervisors with information required to function in their role more effectively. The training includes a pre-session assessment tool, facilitated discussions about managing work teams at UIC, detailed information about application of key HR policies and post-session management tools. Check the calendar at right to see if any relevant courses are scheduled in the immediate future.

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SkillSoft Courses
Giving Feedback: a Manager’s Guide A key skill for all who manage staff is the ability to provide candid, constructive feedback about performance. The explores the nature of feedback, and then presents a practical approach to the feedback process, detailing five logical steps. The course also considers how to approach challenging situations, such as giving feedback to the staff member who is angry or upset.
Using Feedback to Improve Team Performance In this course, you’ll learn how to deliver feedback to other members of your team using a direct, honest, and assertive style that strives to eliminate uncertainty. You’ll also learn techniques to help you receive and process feedback provided by other team members.

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UIC101: Employee Performance Review (EPR) Process

The Employee Performance Review (EPR) Process is intended for all UIC employees. It is a year-round process intended to assist managers in their effort to help employees perform in their jobs more effectively. EPR is competency-based and development focused.

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What this module includes:
UIC Core Competencies and associated expected behaviors
Steps in the EPR process
How to select the appropriate annual review form
Timeframe to complete the annual employee performance review
Where to find helpful forms and resources
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