Peer evaluations

I trust your reviews are anonymous? If they aren't I would respectfully decline.

I am not sure. This is a new process

When I worked as a tech, we had to do something similar to that. A nurse was chosen to evaluate us (at random) along with another tech or CNA, and we were randomly given a tech or CNA to evaluate. I was completely honest in my evaluation and for some reason it wasn't anonymous because that CNA knew it was me who evaluated them...and started becoming very passive-aggressive towards me.

Long story short: make sure it's anonymous.

I hate the peer to peer reviews. My manager should be evaluating how I work, not someone else who may have an axe to grind, or may just be a ding dong who doesn't do a very good job anyway. I would say my laziest previous manager did this and it was NEVER a secret who said what.

I have some experience with peer reviews. They may show the person being reviewed verbatim comments that the reviewer wrote, which in some cases may enable them to figure out who reviewed them even if it is anonymous. Keep this in mind if you have to write comments. Sometimes if someone gets a bad review, they will decide they know who it was without a solid basis and hold it against that person. So the process can lead to paranoia and distrust in the work environment. They are not a good idea for this reason, imo.

The last time I did formal peer evaluations was in nursing school. We had to do them as a presentation to our entire seminar and it was mandated that you include at least 2 items of constructive criticism and 2 positives.

It was brutal, and awkward, and I hated it. Really, I feel like peer feedback should be more of an informal thing. I have no problem taking someone aside and mentioning something to them, but we shouldn't turn it into a circus like that... :/