A 360° is one of the most popular performance assessment tools, and also one of the most challenging, requiring strong business rules and careful process management to ensure trust and confidentiality is maintained.

This is just a small example of a 360° in PQF. Customise with PQF Author so that the performance criteria reflect your organisation’s principles, and use your preferred rating scale. Request comments at any stage - on every page if you choose. Include your logo or by line.

Reports from a 360° to a ‘target’ person are usually presented in your preferred quantitative format, grouped by the relationship – peers, managers, direct reports, self rating etc-and no one person’s feedback is identified.

Confidentiality is especially important in how you chose to present reports of collated qualitative comments, often the most valuable part of a 360° report for working out how to improve performance in the light of others’ perceptions.

Aggregate results and reports for departments or work teams enable an executive to align his / her team’s performance to business goals.

The PQF suite can deliver you your complete set of 360° PQF forms, collated results and, if you choose, automated reports customised to your design.

Repeat the 360° survey 12 months later using the same PQF form – and see how 360° perceptions of performance has altered.

This is a very simple administrative process form – a monthly stationery replacement order. Easy to fill in, clicking orders, and optionally supplying service feedback comments.

But it’s another great example of multiple outputs and reports flowing from a simple form.

For example, an order confirmation summary report might be automatically sent back to each participant for recording in a paper file, and / or to each section or department head for approval.

An exception report might be generated highlighting one department’s excessive order of HB pencils.

Suggestions for improvement or other service comments might be extracted and sent to the QA Manager.

This is a single page form without the requirement to enter anything!! If you wish, there is a memo field for comments. But all you need to do is Submit it and wait for your successful collation response.

This form shows simple matrix layouts for self evaluating the extent to which common software products are used at work, juxtaposed with self assessment of software competence required for the job.

Comparison of PQF results will give an understanding of gaps in skills to meet required tasks, and can be readily linked with other information (eg costs) to supply a simple plan for eliminating that gap in skills vs requirements.

Replace key paper forms in your skills assessment and skills development chain with PQF electronic forms.

Link key components as required to your corporate HR database.

Reap the benefits from PQF in time, quality, reliability, confidentiality and relevant reports.

Everybody can relate to this form.

We are all used to completing paper evaluation forms at the end of training sessions or workshops before being allowed to leave. Often, not much is done with these forms; eyeballed to glean an impressionistic overview, and maybe entered into a spreadsheet eventually.

Think what could happen if this one simple form was a PQF -