How to do self-appraisal using Google Forms

Self appraisal is nothing but an evaluation of employee himself – It gives the fundamental feedback / views and points regarding his performance in given period of time at work. It analyses the strengths, weaknesses, accomplishments, problems faced, training and development needs for every member in team. The self appraisal document is normally a simple excel sheet.

Google Forms is an excellent alternative for static Excel sheets – mainly for this kind of processes. You can create a Form and share it with multiple members without any duplicate efforts.

We used Google forms in a small size organization – for 150 members. It gave us interesting results effort wise. We finished the self appraisal process in 2 days using this. We used the following sections for self rating (1 to 5) simply and added a notes section at the end of it for comments.

• Satisfaction in current responsibilities held by the employee


• Clarity in Goals for the next appraisal period


• Accomplishments score


• Training need for his current role


• Support from his Manager for challenges in Work


• Leadership skills Score


• Inter-personal and communication skills

Steps to create Google Forms

1. Click on ‘Form’ in ‘Create New’ Menu – from the home page of Google Docs.


2. You can edit the title, add description, add Question Titles, Question Types (basically answer type –               Text, paragraph, multiple choice, check boxes, scale, grid etc)


3. You can even select themes for colorful forms.


4. After all your create Form processes – you can publish it in email to your team


5. You can see responses in Summery or Spread sheet mode

Try it, and give me your feedbacks. If you need any help in doing it first time – just ping me.