A Guide for Colleagues: Performance Development Reviews (PDRs)
Why is a PDR important?
PDR's are designed to help you improve or stretch your
performance. This benefits you personally but also helps
improve performance
• PDR's are designed to help promote
communication between you and your
line manager. They have been proven to
motivate individuals and teams to meet
their collective goals as well as individual
ones
• By discussing your aspirations, it helps
identify future career progress and helps
structure your individual development
Preparation is crucial for getting the
most out of your PDR. Being prepared
demonstrates the level of importance
you place on the process.
For a PDR to be effective:
It is important that you reflect on where you believe
your perfomance and development is currently at.
It is also important for your manager to feed back
their views on this.
The evaluation covers:
• Rating against the performance indicators
• (Click the find out more button to access the
ratings guide)
• Current and future performance
• Training requirements
• Future aspirations
• General support and wellbeing
• Any other comments