A friend who recently completed his annual appraisal, commented that the most important financial event in a professional's life is the Annual Performace Appraisal. His take on appraisals is reproduced...
Now, your communication skills are activated. They were always there - but in dormant condition. You are a picture of eloquence, when writing about yourself.....descriptive words, phrases, adjectives and adjectival clauses hitherto never part of your diction now garnish your write-up. Maybe this is the best way to learn to acquire Presentation Ability --- presenting yourself !!!!!!
People are at their creative best now. Suddenly everyone has turned into Merlin the Magician, conjuring up accomplishments out of nowhere.
As one fills in the several columns in the online appraisal form, one discovers new facets about oneself. Latent talents, skills, abilities all surface during the period of the appraisal - only to become latent again after the 31st!
Self help books become redundant - you already have discovered yourself to be the best and a winner - only the appraisers dont think so! Maybe they need the self help books!
While filling details of 'Performace during the year', why cant they have more than 100% as an option! Not fair to those who score 1000 out of 100.
You rate yourself highly on your ability to train others; only forgetting to mention that your knowledge may be vague - but the ability is there! One is surprised about being asked about one's reliability - we all experts in relying on our subordinates to complete all tasks. Only, they rely on their subordinates.... and it does not matter that the final guy is not reliable.
An ex-employee is known to have rated himself "excellent" in his 'Communication Skills'. Whenever words failed him, he used sign language effectively!
As it comes to a close and one is asked about one's strengths and improvements, as a guy once told me - "There is scope for improvement always - others' improvement!" Strengths fill in a 2 MB word document.
As one ends, one can look back at his/her creation in satisfaction - the place wont run without him, in fact can't run without him.
As they say - 'There is a fine line between fact and fiction'
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