Direct Report: Employee Feedback Tracker
Michael E. | May 9, 2010 Business, Productivity
(17 votes, average: 2.29 out of 5)
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If you are responsible for supervising either one person or a team and have to evaluate their performance annually or semiannually, then you know the challenges that can come with that.
Over the course of six months or a year, unless you are someone who manages to keep detailed and consistent notes on your staff as they occur, you will find yourself struggling to remember either the things your staff members did well or the things they need work to improve on come evaluation time.
If that’s you, then I have just the app. It’s called Direct Report: Employee Feedback Tracker. Its purpose: to provide you with the means to record the moments of praise and correction that arise over any period of time so that you can accurately recall them when you need to write an evaluation. Or a recommendation. Or even a termination.
Direct Report is customizable, too, meaning that you can create profiles for your staff and attach photos for each member. You can associate your feedback with pre-populated categories or- in the event that the pre-populated feeds don’t fit your needs- create your own categories. And any comments you log in are automatically timestamped with the current date. You can view all of your feedback for a given employee, sort it according to date, feedback, and category.
There is one thing that I think would make the app better, and that’s the ability to edit the log in dates for feedback. Because the app automatically timestamps according to the current date, if the feedback you’d like to log is, in fact, from a different date, the app doesn’t currently allow you to change it.
It’ll cost you $3.99 to make Direct Report yours, but the cost in the amount of time you’ll save not having to rack your brain during annual or semiannual evaluations alone is- in my opinion and experience- justified. So, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
iTunes Link – Direct Report: Employee Feedback Tracker
Version 1.01
Reviewed on a iPod Touch 3.1.3
Tags: $3.99
