Feedback, Any Way You Want It:A Closer Look at Review Templates:

Different circumstances, often call for different types of input. Therefore, our goal is to make it easy for you to give and receive the right feedback, in the right format.

One of our recent site upgrades added the ability to control exactly what appears on the Review Forms that you use to collect and share feedback. We achieve this with "Review Templates".

Review Templates are essentially questionnaires that can contain any mix of interactive form elements, such as rating sliders, free text, single and multiple choice questions, date selectors, validated numbers, etc.



Coworkers.com offer great flexibility, you can:

• Use pre-designed templates: Get going right away with one of the Coworkers.com Best Practices templates; or select one of the many user-designed templates in our growing library.
• Customize existing templates: If one of the above pre-designed templates isn't quite perfect, you can customize it as you see fit, and save it for future use.
  
• Create and save your own templates from scratch: Perhaps the form you are looking for isn't in our template library at all. You can quickly create a custom one using our form building wizard. Save it for your own future use, and optionally share it with others by adding it to our template library.
  

No matter what kind of feedback you are looking to get or give, Coworkers.com has you covered. Click here to start using Review Templates!

Companies Rethink Annual Performance Reviews

NPR Morning Edition · The annual performance review is getting reviewed itself, and has received low marks. Employees say feedback from the review is too little and comes too late to be effective. Now companies are beginning to rethink how they give feedback.

Listen to the segment here...

Request Feedback, They'll Be Glad You Asked...

Using Coworkers.com for proactive professional development

Now, more than ever, it's important to be on top of your game. Periodic reviews can help you see the big picture, but often it's the more frequent input that can have the biggest impact.

When it comes to continuous improvement, there's no time like the present. So go for it, ask people what they think!

Our powerful and flexible review tools can help you:

• Request honest opinions from your colleagues about your work performance
• Ask people to assess events or milestones like a meeting, client presentation or trade show
• Receive input on a document or deliverable, such as a presentation or resume

You can choose from our growing library of customizable pre-designed
Review Form Templates, or easily craft your own questionnaires. Get
feedback, so you can find out how you are doing and where you need to
improve. Click here to get started.

Helping Managers develop the Next Gen’s Social Skills

jasonseiden.com: "I have a client who complained about his subordinates because they lacked social abilities. Specifically, they wouldn’t pick up the phone. They didn’t know how...

Thanks to social media, Next Generation employees are developing socially in the reverse order as their managers. They’re not build out from a few key connections, they’re filtering down from an incredibly broad and shallow pool...

For a manager looking to take ownership for his or her team’s success, the take-away here is that what looks like a skill deficiency on the surface may actually be something else, such as a technological shift. The best thing to do in this case is to not fight the trend, but rather to accept it and go with it..."

Some interesting observations: check out the full article here