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Performance appraisals in teams

  • Created by Henry Stewart Talks
Published on September 30, 2025   3 min

A selection of talks on Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Welcome. We’re focusing on performance appraisals in teams, an area of growing importance as collaborative work becomes central in organisations. Unlike traditional appraisals, team performance assessments look at collective objectives, group dynamics, and how individual contributions combine to achieve shared goals. Effective team appraisal systems support transparency, build motivation, and strengthen shared purpose, but also present challenges—like fairly measuring outcomes and recognising each member’s efforts. We’ll explore how organisations design, implement, and learn from appraisals structured for team performance. Assessing team performance goes beyond just evaluating results. High-performing teams rely on both their outcomes and the individual behaviours behind those outcomes. Appraisal systems must balance measuring tangible outputs—like project completion or sales figures—with how the team worked together, including communication, problem-solving, and collaboration. Effective appraisals also recognize diverse roles and aim to reduce biases like favouritism or over-crediting a few individuals, ensuring measurements are meaningful and relevant. Organisations use various methods to appraise team performance. Techniques like three hundred sixty-degree feedback gather input from peers, supervisors, and sometimes clients, offering a balanced view of team function and delivery. Others combine traditional rating scales with qualitative feedback or use ranking methods to highlight

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