Make sure that the appraisal interview ends on a positive note with the other person feeling up, not down.

All staff were involved in the consultation, and individual appraisal interviews.

Appraisal interviews can be made more effective if you stick to some well tried ground rules.

So usually we avoid them which is why an effective appraisal interview can be a most uncomfortable experience.

The appraisal interview is not an end in itself.

This is often best done in conjunction with those who are going to be on the receiving end of an appraisal interview.

Prior to their appraisal interviews, the teachers were asked to consider the questions set out in Document 3 (below).

An important conclusion from the considerable research on appraisal interviews is that you should adopt a definite form of strategy for the meeting.

Thus team appraisal is a logical extension of the individual appraisal Interview.

At the beginning of her appraisal interview, she expressed a general satisfaction with her status and responsibilities.

For older workers the subject of discussion - during informal chats or more formal appraisal interviews - will often centre on retirement plans.

This goes for job interviews, appraisal interviews and disciplinary interviews.

Knowing that their boss loves to talk leads some cunning subordinates to turn the appraisal interview into a non event.

Appraisal interviews, things.

Identify and set out objectives, implement an appraisal system and carry out an appraisal interview.

The appraisal interviews, with the Head and the Deputy Head (Staff), took place after the lesson visits.

However, the general managerial principle which the appraisal interviews seemed aimed to serve was the harmonizing of teachers' professional development with the institutional needs of the school.

Formal minutes of the various meetings and appraisal interviews were not kept, although informal personal notes were sometimes made by members of the Senior Management Team.

About the worst error you can make in an appraisal interview, apart from getting into a direct confrontation and violent argument, is to slip imperceptibly into being defensive.

Is the money and time which will be spent on preparation, classroom observation, post appraisal interview, interpretation, evaluation and implementation to be taken from the general education budget?

Economically, the arrangements are agreed on a target, up to a certain point in time, to be performed5, which in practice are usually taken in the context of appraisal interviews.

This guide outlines how to identify and set out objectives for your staff, the different styles of appraisal you can use, and how to carry out an appraisal interview.

Just over a year later, at a 'Career Appraisal Interview' with the chief constable, I was asked: 'tell me, how did you find the law course at the polytechnic?'

Employers who base their personnel decisions on the results of a well-designed performance review program that includes formal appraisal interviews are much more likely to be successful in defending themselves against claims of discrimination.

The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview, from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey, or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview.