Are employee reviews a part of your job that you dread? You’re not alone, as a recent survey found that more than 90% of human resource managers aren’t satisfied with their 360 review for employee feedback and review system.

The tips below can help make your review process less painful and more meaningful for your organization.

Employee reviews are often inflated. Supervisors often rate mediocre employees as competent, and competent employees as above average and so on. A less-than-honest review doesn’t help your employees improve their performance, and it doesn’t help the company either.

Don’t just go over a required form point-by-point; this is the worst way to conduct a review. Make the review a discussion between you and your employees. If necessary, put the form away and talk to your employees about not only their performance, but also the problems they faced during the last year. Talk about how these issues were handled, and work with the employee to come up with ways to improve and grow. This should be the goal of the review – not just checking off a form and putting it in a file until next year.

Encourage feedback and discussion from your employees. Don’t just throw out goals for them to achieve, ask them what their goals are and what they think they can achieve. Work with them to come up with a plan to achieve goals that meet the company’s targets.

Employees should leave the meeting feeling positive and ready to meet their goals, not beaten down. Help them make a concrete plan, including timelines. Work with your employees to come up with a method of tracking progress and identifying obstacles. They should understand how these goals fit into the corporate picture and help the company meet its goals.

Make your employee reviews as easy as possible by utilizing 360 degree feedback tools. Grapevine Evaluations provides an online tool that makes it simple to tailor surveys to suit your company’s needs. You don’t need to install or download any software. You’ll upload information for employees you want to evaluate, and choose questions from our library, adding your own if you’d like. The tool generates easy-to-understand reports with charts and graphs that show where each employee excels and what they need to improve on.

Take the hassle and inefficiency of traditional employee reviews out of the equation, and introduce 360 degree feedback software into the process. Our survey tool assists you in creating, distributing, managing, and evaluating all stages of the review process, easily and efficiently. And, you can track survey participation and follow up as needed. For more information, please contact us today, or take a tour of our product.