Do Your Own Performance Review!

The annual review is a waste. First, because it’s annual [not the right frequency for anyone to make much of an impact] and then review [that’s more formal, boring, consequential and poorly prepared and executed.]

It’s not particularly useful for employee or boss [and they all say it off the record]. Employees don’t find any worth as it hardly guides them into the field of “better”… and boss hates it because it takes up so much time when year-end closing is on cards.

I have a proposal. If you are serious about your own development, you can do your own review. Weekly or monthly, you can sit down with yourself (or for more impact, with a small peer group) and review how you are contributing.

Few questions to ask:

• Have I challenged someone or something lately?
• What am I getting better at?
• Do people trust me more than they did?
• Am I showing up so that people can judge or am I hiding?
• If selling ideas is a skill, am I getting better at it?
• Who have I developed?
• Am I better at seeing what’s going to happen next? What can I do to improve in this domain?
• Who have I helped? Especially when there was no personal gain…
• Am I leading or following?
• Have I read something interesting in the last week?

I wish you a great performance review!