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Leveraging Microsoft Teams for Employee Performance Reviews

Traditional performance review processes can be time-consuming, difficult to coordinate, and often result in low employee engagement. That's why many companies are now turning to Microsoft Teams to help streamline the process and get better results.
Published on
March 2024

The performance review process is an essential part of any company's HR strategy. It allows for managers to assess the performance of their employees, identify areas for improvement, and set goals for the future.

However, traditional performance review processes can be time-consuming, difficult to coordinate, and often result in low employee engagement.

That's why many companies are now turning to Microsoft Teams, within the Office 365 suite, to help streamline the process and get better results.

In this blog post, we'll explore how companies can leverage Microsoft Teams to get their employee performance reviews done - even 360 reviews.

Streamlining the Performance Review Process

Centralized Communication

With Microsoft Teams, all performance review communication can be centralized in one place. This allows managers and employees to quickly access information, share files, and discuss feedback in real-time.

Real-time Collaboration and Feedback

Teams' collaboration features make it easier for managers and employees to work together on the performance review process in a continuous fashion rather than waiting for the annual review cycle.. Managers can provide real-time feedback to employees, and employees can provide real-time feedback to managers, making the process more efficient and effective.

Most importantly, feedback becomes part of the everyday workflow.

360 Degree Feedback

360-degree feedback is a valuable tool for managers and employees to get a more comprehensive view of performance. By leveraging tools such as WorkStory, organization can use their Teams workspace to collect feedback from multiple sources, including peers, managers, and subordinates, to get a more complete picture of each team member's contributions.

Involving more than one person helps to ensure that the review process is accurate, consistent, and fair.

WorkStory reviews via Teams allows for anonymous feedback collection to ensure that employees feel comfortable providing honest and constructive feedback.

This helps to maintain confidentiality and trust in the review process.

Customizing the Review Process

WorkStory provides the ability to create custom review templates that can be tailored to a company's specific needs. This allows managers to create a review process that is unique to their organization and that accurately reflects their culture and values.

With Teams, WorkStory is able to provides insights and analytics that managers and decision-makers would have access to otherwise. This information can be sued to spot trends in personnel performance, making it easier to identify areas of strength and weakness, and to make informed decisions about future goals and performance improvement plans.

Because Teams is already used to provides seamless collaboration between managers, employees, and other stakeholders, it's easy to work together on the review process.

Using Microsoft Teams for Your Performance Reviews

In conclusion, Microsoft Teams provides a powerful and versatile solution for companies looking to streamline their performance review process. Its ability to centralize communication and enable real-time collaboration make it an ideal tool for conducting employee performance reviews. Additionally, its integration with other HR systems, like WorkStory, yields a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and managing performance data.

Our platform, WorkStory, helps companies collect performance data and feedback for their employees using tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex, and email. With WorkStory, companies are streamlining their performance review process, saving employees countless hours by avoiding the hassle of traditional reviews and instead providing them with real-time feedback on their performance.

If your company is looking for a better way to conduct employee performance reviews, and you're utilizing Microsoft Teams, consider using it to manager your performance review process as well.

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Whenever you’re ready, here are 4 ways WorkStory can help you:

  1. The WorkStory Platform: Our all-in-one performance management solution. WorkStory makes it easy to gather continuous feedback, run 360 reviews, and track team progress—all in one place. Perfect for teams looking to move beyond traditional performance reviews.
  2. The Performance Review Builder Tool: Create customized performance reviews that fit your organization’s unique needs. Tailor the reviews to each role, streamline the review process, and focus on growth-oriented feedback.
  3. Performance Review Templates: Access a library of pre-built, best-in-class performance review templates that are ready to use. Whether you need templates for leadership, team members, or cross-functional roles, we’ve got you covered.
  4. HR Document Templates: From onboarding checklists to change management guides, our HR templates are designed to save time and ensure consistency across your organization. Simply download, customize, and implement.
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