Formal Performance Review

These resources are designed to guide you through the formal performance review process, an important part of the overall performance management cycle. The performance review process gives supervisors an effective tool to provide formal feedback to their employees in addition to the ongoing feedback that occurs throughout the year. Performance reviews are also an opportunity to solicit feedback from employees on their performance, experiences, and expectations. We expect that all classified and non-classified employees receive a performance review on an annual basis.

Reminder: All people leaders at WVU are expected to complete the eLearning course: An Inside Look at Performance Management at WVU for an overview of full cycle performance management and details of the formal review process. These self-paced modules will also walk you through how and when to use supplemental resources to empower, encourage, and support employees. Visit the LOD webpage to register for this course.

Evaluating Performance

• Employee Pre-Review Form: Optional form for employees to submit to their manager to incorporate into review meeting

• Rater Consistency: Strategies to avoid bias and rate consistently

• The Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Performance: A guide to evaluating performance based on WVU Values and Code of Conduct; provides descriptors of each performance metric upon which employees are rated

• The Manager’s Guide to Navigating Blue: A supervisor guide to navigating Blue

• Accessing Blue – The link to access Blue, the performance management electronic tool

• Performance Review Demo Video

• Performance Review FAQs