Employee Performance Checklist

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All 68 signs included
  • Quality of Work
  • Clear refusal to do assigned tasks
  • Significant increase in errors
  • Need repeated instructions
  • Repeated errors in spite of increased guidance
  • Job take longer than necessary to complete
  • Poor decision making
  • Reduced quantity of work
  • Inconsistent quality/quantity of work
  • Behavior that disrupts workflow
  • Forgets obviuos or important things
  • Procrastination on significant decisions or tasks
  • More than usual supervision necessary
  • Frequent, unsupported explanation for poor performance
  • Noticeable change in written or verbal communication
  • Missing deadlines
  • Wasting time and materials on the job
  • Difficulty in concentration
  • Difficulty in remembering direction or detail
  • Difficulty in dealing with complex tasks
  • Work requiring more time and effort than usual
  • Attendance
  • Arriving late to work
  • Excessive sick days
  • Instances of leaving work early
  • Excessive tardiness
  • Having repeated unscheduled absences or tardiness
  • Leaving work early for a variety of reasons
  • Frequent unexplained disappearances
  • Excessive lateness when returning from breaks or lunch
  • Attitude and Mood
  • Having periods of high and then low morale
  • Overreacting to criticism
  • Avoids talking with supervisor regarding work issues
  • Changing moods after lunch or breaks
  • Over-sensitivity
  • Irritability
  • Increasingly tearful
  • Persistently boisterous or rambunctious
  • Unusual fears
  • Lacks appropriate caution
  • Makes unfounded accusations towards others
  • Blaming others when confronted
  • Difficulty remembering instructions, data, behaviour
  • Temper tantrums or angry outbursts
  • Demanding, rigid, inflexible
  • Relationship with Others
  • Significant change in relationships with co-workers, supervisors
  • Complaints from co-workers or subordinates
  • More intolerant, resentful of fellow employees
  • Frequent arguments
  • Verbal abusiveness
  • Physical abusiveness
  • Persistently withdrawn or less involved with people
  • Intentional avoidance of supervisor
  • Change in frequency or nature of complaints
  • Unusual sensitivity to advice or critique of work
  • Difficulty in working with others
  • Complaints from outside sources, such as customers
  • Attempting to borrow money from co-workers
  • General Job Performance
  • Increased concern about safety offenses involving the employee
  • Experiences or causes job accidents
  • Interferes with or ignores established procedures
  • Inability to follow through on job performance recommendations
  • Changes in or unusual personal appearance
  • Makes unreliable or false statements
  • Excessive use of the phone

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Alex Strickland

Alex Strickland

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Who it's for

This Employee Performance Checklist is for teams that want consistent execution, less rework, and clear ownership.

  • Standardize quality - run the same Employee Performance steps every time, regardless of who executes
  • Save time - reuse a proven Employee Performance workflow instead of rebuilding processes from scratch
  • Improve accountability - assign owners and see what's done vs. what's pending
  • Onboard faster - use the Employee Performance checklist as the SOP and training guide
  • Coordinate across roles - handoffs are clear and everyone works from the same source of truth

How to use it

How to use this Employee Performance Checklist:

  1. Start by saving it - save as a Template if you'll reuse it, or as a Checklist if it's a one-off project.
  2. Customize it once for your workflow - remove what doesn't apply and add your team-specific steps.
  3. Assign ownership and execute - set owners/due dates where needed and track completion as work happens.
  4. Reuse without rebuilding - when Employee Performance comes up again, start from your saved version and run it with clear ownership.

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