© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved Potential Appraisal Guidelines

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 2 Key Deliverables – Understanding Impact Impact means “result” of your efforts that have had a positive beneficial effect for the organization and has been recognized as such by peers / seniors in the organization.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 3 Key Deliverables – What to fill (1 of 2 ) This section answers the question - What value have I created / What impact have I had? Only enter Major or Summary of deliverables. Three types of deliverables that should be entered High Impact Deliverable – as per definition of impact. Your contribution was above expectation. Steady contribution to useful ongoing deliverable. Must mention what is the actual impact. That is the actual positive change and the people who can vouch for that.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 4 Key Deliverables – What to fill (2 of 2) Expectation – Quality or Impact Clearly mention what was expected and what was delivered Rate it Innovation Your personal flavour / non standard approach. Initiative Did you deliver something that you thought up yourself. 2 or 3 deliverables. 4 or 5 rarely. Above 5 there is something wrong

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 5 Key Performance Parameters This section answers the question – “During the appraisal period, how have I improved?” To help you in giving a structured answer various sections have been created and you are expected to indicate the level of change in each section – Reduced, No Change, Slight Improvement, Major Improvement In the comments you should give a few examples to illustrate that change.

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 6 Scope Area of operation / impact (The area of work that has been allotted to you) Horizontal Increase, because you have been allotted additional areas of operation / impact. Vertical Increase, because you have been allotted more challenging aspects of the area of operations Connection to continuous appraisal No Explicit parameter – But Work Done and Utilization and workstreams that you participate in should help you fill this section

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 7 Quality Your Quality of work Upto the mark / standard Meeting expectations Timeliness of delivery Priortization Solved a general problem rather than specific problem Connection to continuous appraisal Related to the Quality

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 8 Independence / Maturity Independence means having sufficient competence and emotional maturity to complete assignments without requesting unnecessary assistance from appraiser. Increased competence Increased emotional maturity Connection to continuous appraisal Related to Maturity

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 9 Responsibility / Commitment Responsibility is having sufficient self motivation, persistence and sense of judgment to complete assignments without unnecessary follow up by appraiser Improved Self Motivation Persistence Sense of Judgement Connection to continuous appraisal Related to Energy and Discipline

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 10 Managerial Skill Managerial skills are all soft skills required to improve ability to execute assignments. Some examples are Interpersonal skills, Communication skills, Planning skills, Time Management Skills, Conflict management skills, negotiation skills, selling skills, relationship building skills. Connection to continuous appraisal Related to Working as a Team Member, Maturity and Discipline

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 11 Leadership Skill Leadership skills are all soft skills required to help organization grow. Some examples are People development skills, Ability to identify and complete high impact initiatives, Ability to inspire people to go the extra mile, Ability to drive change in the organization, Ability to take decisions with a long term perspective. Connection to continuous appraisal Related to Working as a team lead

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 12 New Skills / Domain Knowledge Technical skills / domain knowledge (hard skills) that are immediately useful or likely to be useful in the future. Improvement in this area by Self Learning / training provided by the organization Connection to continuous appraisal No explicit connection Related to self objectives in Half Yearly Appraisal

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 13 Formal Certification / Degree Part-time course which gives you a certificate or a degree Have you acquired anything in the appraisal period More weightage will be give if it is immediately useful. Connection to continuous appraisal No explicit connection Related to self objectives in Half Yearly Appraisal

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 14 Areas Needing Improvement Identify specific weaknesses that are preventing you from being more effective at work Appraiser will comment in this section as well

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 15 Recommendations What do you deserve Increment Level Change (additional increment) Grade Change Grade Change (Wrongly slotted) Inadequate high impact delivery Inadequate self improvement – No grade or level change High impact contribution / delivery with Inadequate self improvement – Level Change Good self improvement with Inadequate delivery – Level change High impact contribution / delivery with good self improvement – Grade Change

© Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved 16 Question and Answer Session Summary of the potential appraisal form: You have to answer the following questions - What impact have I had? (Value created) How have I improved? What do I deserve?