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**Updated 5/8/2023 @ 7:03 PM CDT**
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1) Think about your employees productivity and how effective they are in their current role. Productivity and effectiveness can be defined as their ability to produce on time and within set parameters or expectations that you have set. How would you rate your employees ABILITY to be productive and efficient.
2) On the same topic of productivity and effectiveness in the employees current role, how would you rate their WILLINGNESS or drive to be productive during the workday as well as be efficient with completing tasks throughout the day?
3) Thinking about this employees use of resources to do their job, how would you rate this employees ABILITY to use materials, articles, manuals, policies, procedures, and coworkers to complete their jobs?
4) How would you rate the employees WILLINGNESS to use materials, articles, manuals, policies, procedures, and coworkers to complete their jobs? Do they take initiative to use these resources versus being convinced to use them?
5) Think about this team member taking measures to improve themselves through learning as well as their performance. Please rate this employees ABILITY to proactively seek out learning opportunities as well as finding new ways to improve their performance without direction.
6) Please rate this employees WILLINGNESS to proactively seek out new learning opportunities as well as finding creative ways to improve their performance without direction.
7) Think about the employees quality of work. Quality means they do their job above the standard as it shows quality results. This could mean they documented their notes carefully, their actions resulted in a positive action, they were able to take a very complex situation and work through it while being very detailed. Rate the employees ABILITY to produce quality work in their current role.
8) Please rate this employees WILLINGNESS to produce quality work in their current role. You should think of this as their drive to produce quality work without being motivated or pushed towards this.
9) Think about how the employee utilizes time management in their current role. Do they use their time wisely? Do they hit their targets on deadlines? Do they consistently miss them. Please rate the employees ABILITY to effectively use their time management skills.
10) Please rate the employees WILLINGNESS to effectively use their time management skills in their role. This should be viewed as their motivation to do so without coercion or convincing.
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Employees Name:
Employees Department:
Employees Manager
The average score of both ABILITY and WILLINGNESS is:
The average of the ABILITY is:
The average of the WILLINGNESS is:
Based on the employees ability and willingness; you should find ways to .
1) Think about your employees productivity and how effective they are in their current role. Productivity and effectiveness can be defined as their ability to produce on time and within set parameters or expectations that you have set. How would you rate your employees ABILITY to be productive and efficient.
The employees score was out of 5
2) On the same topic of productivity and effectiveness in the employees current role, how would you rate their WILLINGNESS or drive to be productive during the workday as well as be efficient with completing tasks throughout the day?
The employees score was out of 5
3) Thinking about this employees use of resources to do their job, how would you rate this employees ABILITY to use materials, articles, manuals, policies, procedures, and coworkers to complete their jobs?
The employees score was out of 5
4) How would you rate the employees WILLINGNESS to use materials, articles, manuals, policies, procedures, and coworkers to complete their jobs? Do they take initiative to use these resources versus being convinced to use them?
The employees score was out of 5
5) Think about this team member taking measures to improve themselves through learning as well as their performance. Please rate this employees ABILITY to proactively seek out learning opportunities as well as finding new ways to improve their performance without direction.
The employees score was out of 5
6) Please rate this employees WILLINGNESS to proactively seek out new learning opportunities as well as finding creative ways to improve their performance without direction.
The employees score was out of 5
7) Think about the employees quality of work. Quality means they do their job above the standard as it shows quality results. This could mean they documented their notes carefully, their actions resulted in a positive action, they were able to take a very complex situation and work through it while being very detailed. Rate the employees ABILITY to produce quality work in their current role.
The employees score was out of 5
8) Please rate this employees WILLINGNESS to produce quality work in their current role. You should think of this as their drive to produce quality work without being motivated or pushed towards this.
The employees score was out of 5
9) Think about how the employee utilizes time management in their current role. Do they use their time wisely? Do they hit their targets on deadlines? Do they consistently miss them. Please rate the employees ABILITY to effectively use their time management skills.
The employees score was out of 5
10) Please rate the employees WILLINGNESS to effectively use their time management skills in their role. This should be viewed as their motivation to do so without coercion or convincing.
The employees score was out of 5
This Willingness and Ability Matrix was designed to help employers determine the employees ability and willingness to complete the tasks at hand.
Workforce 2080 LLC would like to extend credit and gratitude to the following articles which were well written and provided enough context to properly develop this matrix. Thank you to the World of Work Project on their Willingness and Ability article which can found by CLICKING HERE.
Workforce 2080 LLC would also like to extend thanks and gratitude to Resources for Employers for their awesome article on appropriate items to measure in employee performance reviews. You can find that article by CLICKING HERE.