How to Effectively Conduct Annual Employee Reviews

December
10
2025 (Wednesday)
Time 10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes
33 Days Left To REGISTER
Id: 210264
Instructor
Rich McLaughlin
Live
Recorded
Live + Recorded

Overview

Any great manager will tell you that employee reviews are a cornerstone for having satisfied and productive employees. Employees need to know what their strengths and weaknesses are. Once an employee understands their performance, you and the employee can take steps to improve their weaknesses.

A well-developed annual review process can help strengthen your employees and your company. Reviews help employees see their strengths and weaknesses, it is a great way to recognize them for their great work and let them know what needs to be improved.

During this workshop, participants will discover how to conduct a well-designed employee review. By determining the categories for an annual review and understanding how it affects employee compensation, an overall increase in performance should be seen throughout your organization.

Why you should Attend

An annual review can help you keep your employees happy, engaged, and focused. It is human nature to want to succeed. Giving your employees feedback on their positive and undesirable attributes is part of the pathway to success. A poorly designed annual review can have the reverse effect.  

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Guide and Develop Your Employees
  • Enable a Strong Feedback Culture
  • Drive engagement in your performance culture
  • Understand the process of conducting an annual review
  • Determine the categories for an annual review
  • Know the common mistakes managers make during an annual review
  • Understand the concept of pay for performance
  • Know the value of employee communication
  • Use meaningful questions to gauge employee satisfaction
  • Offer employees solutions to motivate them through personal development goals

Who Will Benefit

  • Managers
  • Supervisors

Speaker Profile

Rich McLaughlin Rich has been an observer and practitioner of innovation and employee engagement processes for over 20 years. He has over 13,000 hours designing and facilitating leadership and interpersonal skills workshops, and innovation explorations with teams to help them jump start their change and innovation efforts.

He has helped teams as small as 8 and departments as large as 100 learn how to blend external developments (to understand where customer needs are moving) with internal employee engagement processes (to show how to stimulate internal experiments and capitalize on those opportunities). Rich also enjoys helping leaders grow by focusing more on people skills and less on technical ones. He brings an experiential approach in his work with client teams. His client’s value the engaging way he works with their people whether facilitating a leadership workshop, working with a specific team, or challenging employees to be more accountable for the whole.

Rich spent time learning about instructional design and change management at Accenture, helped Square D Company develop and implement their TQM programs and processes and developed the leadership curriculum and internal consulting practice at Baxter Healthcare during his time as an internal OD practitioner. The last 8 years of his practice he has been following the intersection of Innovation and Design Thinking.

Rich received his M.A. in Training and Development for Business from Ohio State University, and has been consulting faculty for the University of Notre Dame’s College of Business since 2000. He is author of, Rules of Engagement: A Story About How Leaders Can More Effectively Engage Employees. And he co-authored Tapping Team Intelligence: Exercises that connect team members, engage their creativity and foster collaboration.
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