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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.

5 Points – why Gmail for Mobile is the best

Google released its official application for mobile email. The website [http://www.google.com/mobile/products/mail.html#p=default] suggests only high level phones – window mobile, IPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia S60 and other. The word “other” made me try it in my feature phone – Nokia S40 – 3210 Classic. Surprise – it works. The performance is more than expected.

1. It is fast – loads very fast, and shows clean fonts.
2. It connects with GPRS only while loading your inbox with new email, sending emails, refreshing your inbox or opening attachments. That means, it disconnects while you are just browsing email headers. This helps a lot in saving GPRS cost.
3. Multiple Accounts management – Wow – a great thing I expected. With Gmail for mobile – you can create multiple profiles with your account information (I have 3 gmail accounts), and switch your inbox anytime. No need to enter your username and password each time when you want to check other account.
4. Gmail for Mobile contains almost all the features you see in web mail. Reply, Reply to all, forward, Star, drafts, Search emails, etc etc.
5. It works with feature phones too - (ah, the personal benefit…) .. Feature phones are cheap compare to Smart phones and those high level blackberries… but now a days I am happy to see many vendors are providing apps for feature phones too.

An extra valid point – It is “FREE”…

Just give a try and send me your comments.