How Writing Assistant Works with Performance Documents

Managers use the Writing Assistant feature to assist them in writing useful comments in the performance documents of workers during a performance evaluation.

The Writing Assistant provides suggestions that are associated with competencies and their correlated proficiency levels to managers. The suggestions help managers describe observedworker actions, and those workers aspire to perform.

Using Writing Assistant, managers can select a proficiency level for a competency and view suggested comments based on the selected proficiency level, or for the competency as a whole. They can then copy and edit the comments.

Accessing Writing Assistant on the Performance Document

You access Writing Assistant in the performance document. In the Evaluation Topics section for Competencies, click the Evaluate button. Click the Show Additional Info link. For Feedback Suggestions or Development Tips, click the Paste to Comments button.

This table shows the available suggestion types, the source of the suggestions, and examples of how to use them.

Suggestion Type	Source	Use Case Example
Feedback Suggestions	Associated with the competency proficiency level selected by the manager.	The competency you are rating has five rating levels: 1 through 5. You select level 3 and access the Writing Assistant. The feedback suggestion is the one associated with level 3.
Development Tips	Associated with the competency.	You want to help the worker increase proficiency for the competency and select the development tip for the competency. These are also available when only comments or performance ratings are used instead of rating proficiency levels.

You can view the available suggestions and select one or more to paste in the Manager Comments section of the performance document. After copying and pasting suggestions, you can edit them as required.

Using only Comments in a Competencies Section

If the competencies section is configured to use comments only and not proficiency level ratings, for individual content items, only development tips are available. Feedback suggestions aren't available because they rely on proficiency levels.