This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

321 tools for employee appraisal in one course: 199 ready-to-use question lists, procedures, checklists, templates and rating scales, 87 models and methods, 27 services and apps shown on screen, and 8 downloadable tool files.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in your next appraisal.

Why appraisal turns into a formality

Once a year managers fill in a form. The criteria are vague, so the rating depends on who rates. People learn the result without a conversation, and nothing follows from it: no plan, no decision on pay, no change in the work. Next year everyone fills in the same form again and expects less of it.

What changes after this course

You choose the method by the job: goals and KPIs, competencies, 360-degree feedback or an assessment center. Criteria are agreed in advance. Each appraisal ends with a conversation and a development plan. The results are used for decisions on promotion, pay and succession, and you can explain each of them.

What is inside: 321 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 199 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 51 question lists and scripts: personnel assessment planning questions, performance management system assessment, 360-degree open-ended feedback questions, job analysis interview
• 41 step-by-step procedures and workflows: MBO personnel assessment cycle, goal cascading procedure, assessment center procedure, difficult performance conversation procedure
• 34 checklists: effective performance management system checklist, assessment center design checklist, 360-degree questionnaire design checklist, manager review preparation checklist
• 34 templates and sample documents: job profile template, individual development plan, critical incident log, performance improvement plan
• 23 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: competency rating scale, five-point performance rating scale, merit increase matrix, succession risk matrix
• 7 ready AI prompts: assessment center exercise design prompt chain, three-month employee development plan prompt, two-year analyst career track prompt
• 6 formulas and metric sets: production manager KPI set, legal department performance indicators, AI performance management impact metrics
• 3 other working tools: feedback gap interview worksheet, feedback belief reframing tables, feedback stress reduction worksheet
• 87 models and methods explained with examples: assessment center, 360-degree feedback, Management by objectives (MBO), SMART goals, radical candor, Behavioral Event Interview, Lominger competency model
• 27 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: Culture Amp, Lattice, 15Five, Betterworks, Spidergap, PeopleForce, Engagedly, Bonusly and others
• 8 downloadable tool files: administrative competency profiles, job analysis interview template, Lominger competency workbook, operator competency and assessment workbook, 360-degree feedback sample report and others

Where the tools are

• Employee appraisal core (5 sections, 97 tools). Appraisal systems, criteria, performance agreements and KPIs, feedback and development plans, assessment centers, difficult conversations, coaching, formal reviews and the design of the system.
• Continuous feedback (40 tools). Feedback needs and barriers, the six-step conversation, feedback loops and recognition.
• 360-degree feedback (51 tools). Questionnaire, scales, raters, reports, results and automation. Seven of the tool files are here.
• Competency-based appraisal (113 tools). The largest section: the competency model, job profiles, assessment methods, libraries and the use of results for pay and succession.
• Complete performance appraisal and review system (57 tools). KPI, MBO, OKR and standards, review meetings, pay and the improvement plan.
• AI in appraisal and performance management (20 tools). Goals, analytics, review forms, one-on-ones and development plans with AI services.

What this course is not

It is not a certification programme. You receive the Udemy Certificate of Completion and a working toolkit.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

When I worked at Wargaming, the unit I supported had no performance review: the managers sabotaged it. I came and said: let us do it, I will take part and help. They agreed. Afterwards the employees said: at last we talked properly with our managers about our work and our plans. At Wargaming we often ran 360-degree feedback together with the review, and the forms also asked about satisfaction and career plans, so one appraisal solved several tasks. At Preply and iDeals I introduced OKR, and we had more quarterly reviews than annual ones, because everything changed fast.

How to use the course

Watch the first four sections in order: they give the appraisal system from criteria to the conversation. Then open the section for your method: continuous feedback, 360-degree feedback, competencies, the full review system or AI. The last section returns to coaching, formal reviews and the design of your own system. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 43 lectures across 10 sections, 19 hours
• 50 downloadable resources: 8 tool files and the lecture presentations
• 321 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
• A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Open the first lecture and go through the effective performance management system checklist for your company. Mark what is missing and open the lecture on it. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.