Job appraisals: Things in common

Job appraisals: Things in common

 

Job appraisals: Things in common - discussion

Compare your answers to the questions below with your partner, then share anything you find in common with the class.

• What do you do?
• Do you enjoy your work and/ or studies? (What do you enjoy most?)
• How are your work and/ or studies going?
• Overall, have you had a good (academic/ financial/ calendar) year?/ Do you feel like you’ve made good progress in your work and/ or studies in the last twelve months? Have you achieved or surpassed any goals/ targets/ aims? Have you overcome any challenges?
• Have you developed your abilities to do well in your work and/ or studies?
• What would make it possible to do better in your job and/ or studies? Are there any areas that you’d like to develop?
• What are your future aims/ targets/ goals/ ambitions? What do you want to achieve in the next twelve months?
• Do you ever answer questions like those above as part of your studies or job?
• What do you think about appraisal interviews with those kinds of questions?

Share some things you found in common and see if anyone else in the class is similar.

Listen to or watch an employee taking part in the kind of job appraisal interview that you have just been talking about and make notes in this table:

Compare with a partner, check with the transcript or subtitles, then ask about anything you aren’t sure about.

Phrases for job appraisals collocations

Try to join the common collocations together. They are in the same order as the conversation, so you can use the context of the other sentences to help:

1. Looking a good year?
2. What would be your overall assessment?
3. Do you think you’ve had               back over the past 12 months,…
4. I’d say I’ve had a pretty strong challenges.
5. There have been a few challenges along example of…?
6. but I think I’ve overcome those
7. I’ve achieved all the goals that we set last year.
8. and in some cases I’ve exceeded the way.
9. Could you give me a specific those targets.
10. …when you’ve surpassed

11. On one
12. I took the at getting my point across clearly.
13. I succeeded feedback from delegates at…
14. Yes, that was a tremendous in getting…
15. And in what ways have you developed in the way I communicate with…
16. In terms initiative and…
17. I think I’ve improved occasion when we were…
18. I’m better of my day-to-day job,…
19. That was commented on in staff feedback.
20. I feel I’ve really developed in that professionally since…?
21. In fact, I received very positive

22. Are there any areas that you’d like to develop creating team spirit, but…
23. I’ve given that some else you’d like to discuss?
24. One area I’d really like to focus further?
25. I think I have strong organisational
26. I’m good at mind?
27. I still find it difficult of 7%.
28. That’s something we could look on is how to best manage a team.
29. Was there anything
30. I think I’ve earned a pay
31. What kind of figure did you have in thought and…
32. Well, I was thinking somewhere in the region to give negative feedback to staff.

Check as a class or with the suggested answers.

Suggested answers 

1. Looking back over the past 12 months,…
2. What would be your overall assessment?
3. Do you think you’ve had a good year?              
4. I’d say I’ve had a pretty strong year.  
5. There have been a few challenges along the way
6. but I think I’ve overcome those challenges
7. I’ve achieved all the goals that we set last year
8. and in some cases I’ve exceeded those targets.
9. Could you give me a specific example of…?
10. …when you’ve surpassed expectations.

11. On one occasion when we were…  
12. I took the initiative and…  
13. I succeeded in getting…
14. Yes, that was a tremendous success.  
15. And in what ways have you developed professionally since…?
16. In terms of my day-to-day job,…
17. I think I’ve improved in the way I communicate with…
18. I’m better at getting my point across clearly.                                                                                
19. That was commented on in staff feedback.
20. I feel I’ve really developed in that area.                                  
21. In fact, I received very positive feedback from delegates at…

22. Are there any areas that you’d like to develop further?        
23. I’ve given that some thought and…
24. One area I’d really like to focus on is how to best manage a team.  
25. I think I have strong organisational skills.  
26. I’m good at creating team spirit, but…                                                                            
27. I still find it difficult to give negative feedback to staff.
28. That’s something we could look into.                                     
29. Was there anything else you’d like to discuss?                                                             
30. I think I’ve earned a pay rise.
31. What kind of figure did you have in mind?
32. Well, I was thinking somewhere in the region of 7%.

Job appraisals phrases things in common

Maybe after changing partner, work together to complete as many sentences below as you can with information that you share with each other. Don’t write anything that is only true about one person.

1. Looking back over the past _____________________, _______________________
2. My overall assessment of ______________________ would be ________________
3. I’d say I’ve had a(n) _________________________________ strong twelve months.
4. I’ve (partly/ mostly/ fully) overcome _______________________________________
5. I’ve achieved ________________________________________________________
6. I’ve exceeded/ surpassed ______________________________________________
7. On one occasion I managed to __________________________________________
8. I took the initiative and _________________________________________________
9. I succeeded _________________________________________________________
10. __________________________ was a(n) ___________________________ success.
11. I’ve developed _____________________________ by ________________________
12. In terms of my day-to-day ________________, ______________________________
13. I think I’ve improved ____________________________________________________
14. I’m now better _________________________________________________________
15. I think I have strong _______________________________________________ skills.
16. I’m good at ___________________________________________________________
17. I (still) find it difficult ____________________________________________________
18. My _______________ was commented on __________________________________
19. I received ______________________ feedback from __________________________
20. I’d really like to focus ___________________________________________________
21. I’d like to develop ______________________________________________________
22. I’ve given ________________________________________________ some thought.
23. I could look into _______________________________________________________
24. I’d like to discuss ______________________________ with ____________________
25. I think I’ve earned ______________________________________________________

Share some sentences with the rest of the class and see if other classmates have those things in common with both of you.

Change partners. Use similar language to that above while you roleplay job appraisal interviews.