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Performance Appraisals for Consultants?

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by bijal

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For a consulting firm to conduct performance appraisals for salaried consultants is a difficult task since the "employee/consultant" is working off site at the client's company. Many times, a client is "interviewed" to gain insight into the consultant's performance.

Are there any performance appraisals available that a client could complete after a project is complete? (urls would be greatly appreciated) These performance appraisals should take a minimum amt of time to complete since the client is completing it. Is this the best way to evaluate a salaried consultant?

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by kent.manley

I would think some combination of self-evaluation, client evaluation (you're right, that should be a minor part of it due to time impact issues), and staff evaluation (you ARE keeping up with your mothership and/or consultants (depending on your viewpoint) aren't you?) is a good way. That way, each stakeholder has an input into the process - the consulting company, the client, and the consultant.

Hope this helps.

Kent Manley

by mark l

Your solution, however you (consulting company) deploy it; would best reflect acuracy if it contains equal input from Client, contractor & contractors Supervisor. This allows the contractor to provide (offsite Contract supervisor) with daily, weekly, monthly feedback. Allows the client to feel like they have more control over their investment, and you the Contract company who as you aptly note, will have a couple of lines of information to better gage your folks performance in cases where youdon't see them day-to-day. I have two sets of performance apopraisals you might be interested in. One from my current employer ( http://www.chm.net ) and one from my active duty USCG days. I'll have to scan 'em in if you can use *.pdf doc's?

v/r :)
mlv//Mark LeVeck computer system support
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by rich l

The answer here is easy. How much follow on work did the client contract for as a result of the excellence of the work the consultant (team) did?

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