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Using appraisals to develop your team

Appraisals work best when they feel like an ongoing conversation, not a once-a-year form. This webinar explores practical ways to use appraisals to support development, motivation and wellbeing, helping managers and teams make better use of time they already have to invest.

Date Friday, 15 May 2026 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Where Details Online Online - MS Teams
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What you’ll learn

  • What makes an appraisal feel useful and constructive, rather than a tick-box exercise
  • How preparation can help the conversation, including thinking about clear, realistic objectives that support development and align with wider priorities
  • How to give feedback that feels grounded in evidence and focused on next steps
  • Everyday development options you can use when formal training is limited

Who is this webinar for?

Anyone who manages staff and wants to make appraisal conversations more useful and development-focused. It’s also relevant for people preparing for their own appraisal too.

Lead facilitators

Rob Wright

Rob Wright’s niche is leadership career pathways in the NHS. He was previously Head of Executive Talent & Appointments at NHS England where he worked on CEO talent strategy, the creation of the Leadership Competency Framework and the appointments to the ICB boards.

Prior to that, as a Senior Programme Lead in the NHS Leadership Academy, he helped establish the NHS Executive Search team that supported board appointments in the NHS. He was also worked on the national Aspiring CEO programme, the Clinical Executive Fast Track, the Aspiring Director of Nursing, HR Director and Medical Director programmes and as well as the Aspire Together regional talent boards.

He has a background in search and selection and also took a time out to complete an internship with the RSPB, as an Education Officer – a position which involved encouraging school parties to explore the natural world.

Sally Vaughan

Sally started her career as an NHS General Management Trainee in 2006, gaining an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management as part of this programme. She has worked in various operational management roles across mental health and acute services since then, mainly in London teaching hospitals. More recently she was the Associate Director for Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, successfully leading those services through the Covid pandemic surges and elective recovery phases. Sally is a qualified coach and has training in Quality Improvement methodology.

Sally supported the opening of the Heatherwood Hospital as a state of the art orthopaedic and opthalmology elective centre at Frimley Health and increased Critical Care capacity permanently as part of the post-Covid response. Her leadership and coordination of surgical services at Frimley saw some of the first 'green pathway' elective patients treated outside of London in a Covid-safe environment against a backdrop of her Trust treating the 4th highest level of Covid patients in the country.

Sally has completed the Nye Bevan Programme and she is a MBTI Step I and Step II qualified facilitator. She also has a Post-Grad Diploma in Organisational Development Practice.

What participants say

93%

of attendees agreed the presenters delivered the session effectively.

“This was the best webinar I have attended on Appraisals. Liked the Appraiser and Appraisee approach and the acronyms. ”

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