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- Persistently withdrawn or less involved with people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