Part One: Warm Up
Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).
- When was the last time you were evaluated by someone at work or school? How was the evaluation? What did you learn from it?
- What skills or characteristics do you think companies should evaluate people on in a workplace performance review?
Part Two: Vocabulary
Open the exercise and follow the instructions.
Exercise
Part Three: Reading
In this lesson, you are going to read a workplace performance review.
A workplace performance review is a formal report in which managers or supervisors evaluate an employee’s performance. This is quite common in most companies or organizations. In a performance review, strengths and weaknesses are identified and feedback is offered—all to help employees set goals for the future and grow personally and professionally.
Open the exercise and follow the instructions.
Exercise
Part Four: Further Discussion
- Overall, how do you think Saoirse did in her workplace review? Why do you think so?
- Saoirse needs to improve in some areas. What do you think she should do to achieve this? How do you think the company and her manager can help her?
- Why do you think this company uses two different performance reviews (an annual review and a 90-day review)? What might be the purpose of each review?
- What other types of evaluations do you think are helpful for an employee or student’s success and development?