To: Department Heads, Managers, and Supervisors
From: Garth Hawkins <garth.hawkins@xcelsolutions>
Subject: Submitting Appraisals of Performance by June 1

This is just a reminder to all of you to say that performance appraisals for all youof your employees must be submitted by June first1st. These appraisalappraisals are especially important and essential this year because of job changes, new technologystechnologies, and because of office reorganization.

To complete your performance appraisal in the most effective manner, you should follow the procedures described in our Employee Manual. Let me briefly make aoffer a brief review of those procedures;

• Be sure that each and every employee has a performance plan with three3 or 4 main objectiveobjectives.
• For each objective, make an assessment of the employee on a scale of 5 (consistently exceeds requirements) to 0 (does not meet requirementsrequirements).
• You should identify three strengths that hethe employee brings to the job.
• Name three skills that hethe employee can improve. These should pertain to skills such as Time Managementtime management, rather thenthan to behaviors such as habitual lateness.
• You should meet with the employee to discuss the appraisal.
• Then be sure to obtain the employeesemployee's signature on the form.

We look upon appraisals as a tool for helping each worker assess histheir performance. Andand enhance histheir output. Please submit and send each employeesemployee's performance appraisal to my office by June first1st.

If you would like to discuss this fartherfurther, please do not hesitate to call me.

Garth Hawkins, Director
Human Resources | garth.hawkins@xcelsolutions | Office: 805-433-5890 | Cell: 439-220-3990