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Staff reviews - sometimes known as appraisals - can help create stronger bonds with staff and improve their performance.

Staff Reviews Toolkit

Staff Reviews Toolkit

Staff reviews, appraisals or performance reviews can be a great tool in improving productivity and morale when done well.

TIAH members can read through this toolkit in full to help them hold effective reviews with their team.
Staff reviews - sometimes known as appraisals - can help create stronger bonds with staff and improve their performance.
Staff reviews can help open up communication with all members of the team.

Why are staff reviews important?

Staff reviews are more than just routine meetings. They're an opportunity to evaluate, plan and develop the future of both the employee and the farm business.

Setting up a performance review requires intention and structure to make it effective and worthwhile. 

Members can log in to read more about how employers and employees can both benefit from effective staff review/appraisal meetings. 
Taking the time to plan a staff review meeting can help ensure it runs smoothly.

Preparing and conducting the review

Staff reviews are most successful when they're conducted in a collaborative, open manner.

Log in for more advice and to access our checklist template to ensure you're planning review meetings effectively. You can also get advice on setting effective goals, learn about our recommended structure for effective meetings, and more.
Taking the time to plan a staff review meeting can help ensure it runs smoothly.

Members get more

TIAH members can access this and all our other toolkits, plus our award-winning Learning Hub.

Packed with quality learning materials to help farmers and growers develop their skills, the hub allows you to learn whenever the time is right for you, allowing you to pause your learning and save your progress as you go.

To access the award-winning Learning Hub, with bespoke learning recommendations to help you target the skills you want to develop, become a member today.

Make the most out of staff review meetings by ensuring they're held in a collaborative, open manner.

Giving feedback and next steps

Get practical examples of real staff review conversations in a farming or growing business and plan the crucial next steps after a staff review meeting by logging in.

Find out how you can make the most of the action points raised in the meeting and set achievable targets to ensure goals are met.
Our downloadable resources and tools can help you make a success of staff reviews in your business.

Resources

TIAH members can download our templates and tools to ensure they can adopt all the principles and advice offered in the complete toolkit.

Log in or become a member to access this and all our other toolkits, plus our award-winning Learning Hub which is packed full of quality training materials, specifically for farmers and growers.
Our downloadable resources and tools can help you make a success of staff reviews in your business.

Where this sits with the Capability Framework

The practices involved in using staff reviews - or staff appraisals - with your farm team relate to the capabilities inside the Business and Leadership areas of our Capability Framework.

Thanks to our partner organisation

This toolkit was made in association with farm business management consultant Paul Harris, of Real Success.

Paul has a wide range of professional management experience and he greatly enjoys bringing his learnings from other sectors into agriculture and horticulture, having done so since he was appointed director of Real Success in 2009.