Dear colleagues, our current appraisal system linked to teachers and support staff pay reviews is traditional, cumbersome and paper based and we have begun a culture shift towards continuous performance management, shorter term targets and good conversations around development and engaging in continuous improvement. We now would like to think about a system and on line process to support this shift and move away from the paper based appraisal forms to check ins with managers and reflection on learning and coaching.

I'd love to hear of your experiences around some of the systems out there  eg SIMS performance management, blue sky etc and the pros and cons of this plus any other tools or ideas you have around how to move away from traditional appraisal frameworks that benefit the staff and the academies.

Many thanks Amanda