50 Activities for Performance Feedback

It is important to provide employees on all levels of the organization with accurate, candid, and useful feedback concerning their performance regardless the employee’s level in the organization. Everyone needs to receive this feedback on their performance to continue to grow and develop in their jobs and careers.

Whatever an organization’s performance management process, it is important that it is utilized consistently and fairly to all employees. It is likely the primary process the organization has established to provide formal performance feedback to its employees. All managers and supervisors should be expected to utilize this process. Helping managers and supervisors improve their skills providing this important feedback to employees is a worthwhile investment for any organization, paying dividends not only today but tomorrow as well.

Each of these activities has been created to provide participants with new ideas, tips, guidance, and insights to help them become better able to provide more meaningful performance feedback and manage performance in their organizations. There are also many skill-building activities included. These provide participants the opportunity to role play and receive immediate feedback on how to improve their abilities in providing performance feedback that they can take back to their jobs. Facilitator Tips have been included in many of these activities to provide greater detail for facilitators to review the subject matter to participants. Facilitators should feel free to refer to these tips when presenting these activities, even reading directly from them to ensure the material is accurately presented.

These 50 activities will become an essential part of any organization’s training and development programs to help managers and supervisors become more effective leaders by helping them provide more meaningful performance feedback to those who report to th