A performance evaluation is typically where your employer evaluates your work. It is defined as a process where on the job performance of an employee is looked at in several categories generally in Terms of quality, quantity, cost and time.
Let’s start with the last time you have had one of these done on you, you know when you sit down with your manager; whether it was at the end of the year or just last week. What were the major takeaways from that meeting? Are you doing a great job? What are the areas that need intervention? Then of course there are those areas that you do well, just not your best. Hopefully you know how your role impacts the overall performance of the organization and what a slight increase or decrease in quality in some key areas can impact the greater business. If you do not know how you impact your organization that would be a great place to start.
Once you know how you are performing you are usually given an action plan on including specific tasks you need to focus on over a certain period of time to improve performance. If the anticipated result is not achieved during that timeframe there is usually a negative result like formal discipline, more intense scrutiny, and in some cases termination.
My question to you now is when was the last time you gave yourself an evaluation in your personal life. I mean in the areas of parenting, being a good mate or companion, or even of how well you have been doing as a sibling or Son. Now I know this may seem like a weird concept; but why should we give our best to our employers and not give the same or even more care to the ones we love or more importantly to the ones that love you? Only when these relationships are right in our lives are we freed up to give our very best outside of the home anyway? We all can probably personally attest to the knowledge of someone not doing well at work because they have problems at home. These issues ultimately spill over into our professional lives as well. So why not take care of both issues at the same time?
I believe that it is healthy for us to take stock in our personal relationships & allow for our performance to increase. I would like for each of you to select the most important relationship you have in your personal life. I want you to evaluate how well you are performing in it. Now in order to do that you need to know what the requirements of the relationship are. Okay so you don’t know what the requirements of being a good father, spouse, brother or son are, so it’s time to have a discussion with that person to understand what that other person’s needs, wants, (take a pulse check). Find out if you are measuring up to their expectation of the relationship, if not this is a great time to calibrate those expectations to make sure that you are both aware of certain things. This is also a great time to reset expectations or address any changes that may have occurred since your last conversation.
Now I am not going to go into a long drawn out process of evaluating your relationships but if you have this basic conversation I am certain that you will identify some areas of improvement. So design a plan that will help you gain clarity into whether you are hitting it out of the park in your personal as well as professional life. You & your boss can both thank me later!
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