Team Evaluation Form

Managers have to learn how to effectively evaluate personnel. A good place to start is to realistically evaluate your peers on team presentations.

Many times, less able team members will approach you and request or suggest that everyone should give equal evaluations to all team members. While this may appear on the surface to be equitable, it is not, and it violates the spirit of fair play. These members are using you as a dupe to do their work. At best, they are covering for a weak friend in a misguided attempt to bypass the competitive system.

To perform effective evaluation you must have a series of reasonable criteria. These may include either or both objective (quantifiable) and subjective (feelings based or non-quantifiable) measures. You may treat the criteria that you choose to be equal in value or you may weight them according to your own method.

At a minimum, you must allocate 100 points among your team members, including your self. For example, if Jane organized the team, provided snacks, and attended all of the meetings with valuable contributions, she might earn more points than someone who just attended the meetings and had little to say. So in a 5 person group, one might consider her worth to the overall work-product to be worth 30 points (or more) while the other person earned less than 20.

Other criteria that you may wish to consider:

1) Quality of the ideas presented by each person in the group

2) Willingness to attend meetings at convenient times for others

3) Willingness to take on less pleasant but still crucial tasks for the presentation (writing, presenting, prepare slides, etc.).

4) Ability to work constructively with other members, to reduce conflict.

5) Ability to effectively present, answer questions

You may wish to reduce the point value for those who

a) pressure others to adopt “standardized scores for everyone” (“Let’s all rate each of our 5 group members at 20 pts!”)

b) fail to provide appropriate outputs that they’ve agreed to do in a timely fashion

c) refuse to take on any responsibility/refuse to perform work

d) skip meetings

e) Hogging the floor during presentations, um, er, ahh, etc., Poor dress for presentation

Team Member...............................Pts. awarded................Strengths/Weaknesses

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Total.Pts..Awarded............................______