Behind every successful performance review process, there is some level of reflection and intention behind the process. One that fits your specific purpose, your organization's culture, practices and capacity. Here are 6 key questions that will help you design your process, and how to build it in ClayHR:

1. What is the purpose of your Performance Review Process?
2. What is the content being assessed?
3. Check in conversation
4. Metrics based
5. Goals based assessment
6. Skills based assessment
7. Combination of goals, competencies and other indicators
8. Variations: Is the process the same across the board or is it specific? Variations by:
9. Department
10. Location
11. Role
12. Tenure
13. How many levels of assessments do you need? Are different roles focusing on different issues?
14. Self review
15. Peers review
16. Supervisors review (Manager, Manager's Manager, Org Unit Head)
17. Direct reports review
18. Other
19. External reviewers
20. What is the timeline for your performance review process?
21. Reviews in parallel
22. Reviews in sequence
23. Combination of both
24. How much do you want to share during the process? Visibility options on:
25. Reviewers' identity
26. Reviewers' conten