Achieve Together Achievement Criteria

What is the Achievement Criteria? What are Performance Levels?

The Achievement Criteria are a tool for managers and employees to discuss and evaluate performance. The Achievement Criteria are also an integral part of the check-in conversation process, in which each of the check-in questions addresses one of the criteria.

The criteria are:

  • Collaboration
  • Goal Accomplishment
  • Inclusion & Belonging
  • Innovation
  • Job Mastery

For each of the five criteria, employees will find themselves in one of three Performance Levels at any given time:

  • Needs Attention
  • Well Done
  • Stand Out

Berkeley's Achievement Criteria are connected to the UC Systemwide Core Competency ABCs. These core competencies have been identified for all staff, including managers and supervisors, professional staff, and operational/technical staff across the UC system. 

How do we use the Achievement Criteria?

This framework is a tool that will help employees understand how they are performing, and to inform future performance planning and merit rewards. Employees and managers discuss the criteria during Achieve Together check-in conversations using guided questions, which each address one of the criterion.

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Download the Achievement Criteria Full Set

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Download the Achievement Criteria Quick Guide

How is manager performance evaluated as part of the Achievement Criteria?

Managers/supervisors and individual contributors use the same criteria for determining performance, though managers/supervisors have additional criteria that apply to them and cover aspects that address their management progress and team performance. 

How does the Achievement Criteria link to the merit rewards process?

In years when a merit fund is available, online documentation will be used as a tool for managers to produce a merit recommendation through using the Achievement Criteria.

To support precise recommendations, units will be equipped with tools, focused on assigning merit through a fair, accurate, bias-eliminated process.

Once the merit process is complete, managers should discuss employee merit rewards during a scheduled one-on-one.

Achieve Together Performance Levels are also used to determine eligibility for general across-the-board salary increases. 

Employees who are covered by Achieve Together and are otherwise eligible for salary increases or Merit are NOT eligible for an increase if they receive: 

  • Three (3) or more "Needs Attention" in any of the five Performance Levels, OR

  • "Needs Attention" for BOTH the Job Mastery and Goal Accomplishment criteria, even if all other criteria are Well Done or Stand Out

After your Achieve Together Check-in, be sure to schedule your UC Experience Conversation. Check out our webpage linked here for tools and resources!

Visit the Training & Resources page for additional resources.