Reviews: best practice questions for probation review meetings
Do you have probation review meetings coming up? If you want to provide structured feedback to employees at the end of their probation period, you can use a simple employee review. Our best practice questions help you have a meaningful conversation about the employee’s onboarding and development in the new role.
Feel free to use all or only some of the below questions or even modify them. We are happy to assist you with this.
Simple Employee Review
Sample questions for a probation review meeting with the participation of the manager and the employee
Questions for the manager of the employee:
- What do you consider their three core strengths relevant to the respective role?
- What should they keep doing?
- What should they change?
- What is the most important development goal they should be working on? What support could you offer to them to further develop in their role?
( + skills from company framework)
Questions for the self-evaluation of the employee:
- What has your onboarding experience been like? Do you have any suggestions as far as our general onboarding practice is concerned?
- What do you consider your three core strengths relevant to your role?
- Did you encounter situations in which you felt unchallenged or overwhelmed? How can we better address such situations in the future?
- Which additional tasks would you like to work on?
- What are your three key learnings & development goals? What support do you need to move forward on your development goals?
( + skills from company framework)