Course sheet · 2027 catalogueSoft skills
Assessing Skills and Potential: The Appraisal Interview
One day to prepare and run an appraisal interview that is useful to the team member and to the company. Review of objectives, assessment of skills based on facts, spotting potential, training needs and objectives for the coming year: each step is worked with your own interview form and cases drawn from production, logistics and sales functions.
Duration1 day
Request a quoteObjectives
- Explain the purposes of the appraisal interview and its place in skills management
- Assess skills from observed facts rather than impressions
- Distinguish current performance from potential, and spot signs of capacity to grow
- Run the interview while leaving real room for the team member's self-assessment
- Document objectives, training needs and career wishes in the company's form
Programme
Day 1 — morning
- What the appraisal interview is for: the team member, the manager, the company
- Preparing: re-reading the year, gathering facts, inviting the team member to self-assess
- Assessing a skill: levels, observable criteria, dated examples
- Performance and potential: the two-axis matrix and its limits
- Exercise: assessing a team member from a file of facts
Day 1 — afternoon (workshop)
- The run order: review, skills, objectives, development, the team member's input
- Delicate situations: disagreement over the assessment, a demotivated team member, expectation of promotion
- Assessment biases: halo effect, leniency, weight of the latest event, comparison between colleagues
- General principles to respect: objectivity, confidentiality, non-discrimination, consistency with your HR policy
- Workshop: simulated interviews with your interview form, then knowledge test
Teaching methods
- Work on your own annual interview form or, failing that, on a template provided
- Cases built from files of facts: dock supervisor, laboratory technician, field salesperson
- Simulated interviews in groups of three and debrief against a grid
- Exercise on spotting assessment biases
- Option to involve HR to harmonise rating practices
Assessment and documents
Knowledge test and a simulated appraisal interview, observed against a grid. Follow-up evaluation at D+1; numbered certificate verifiable online for each participant, training report for the company.
Bilingual materials for every participant; each classroom course comes with its digital twin on OmniLearn.
Frequently asked questions
Do we need an interview form?
No. If your company has one, the training uses it and can suggest improvements. Otherwise a template is provided and adapted during the workshop.
Does the interview deal with pay or promotions?
The training is about assessing skills and potential. Pay or promotion decisions follow your HR policy; the day shows how to respond to a team member's expectation without making commitments outside your role.
What is the legal framework?
The training recalls general principles of Moroccan labour law and good practice: objectivity, non-discrimination, confidentiality of information. Rules specific to your company are validated with your HR function.
How does it differ from "Conducting a Corrective Meeting"?
The appraisal interview is a periodic, comprehensive review: results, skills, potential, development. A corrective meeting deals with a specific lapse, at the moment it occurs.
Practical information
- Duration
- 1 day
- Audience
- Managers, department heads, team leaders, HR functions
- Prerequisites
- Having team members to assess
- Group size
- Groups of 6 to 12 participants, in-company
- Format
- In-company, face to face on your site
- Language
- French, Darija or English; bilingual materials
- Funding
- OFPPT special training contracts (TFP), GIAC, Maroc PME: we prepare the applications with you, at no extra cost.
- Programme customisation
- Programme adapted to your procedures, your equipment and your audience
Organise this course
Price and dates on quote, depending on your headcount, your site and your preferred period.
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