The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a toolkit to help appraisals work for businesses and employees.

The CIPD’s Performance Management and Appraisal toolkit identifies some of the reasons why appraisal training so often fails to live up to expectations and provides 35 tried and tested ideas to help turn appraisal into a vital management tool.

Terry Gillen, consultant trainer and author of the Performance Management and Appraisal toolkit, says: “Appraisals should become part of effective and common sense management. Too often appraisal training concerns handling the interview as an event rather than using regular discussions as part of a performance development process.

“This new toolkit offers practical advice to help managers understand the need for performance management, communicate and monitor performance expectations effectively and master the craft of giving helpful feedback in order to help improve business performance.”