Jennifer Brick: Writing your self evaluation for
your performance review? Great news because in
this video, I am breaking down seven steps to slay
your self assessment. If you are ready to rock
your performance review, tap that like button and
let's just jump straight into it. The first thing
that you need when you're preparing your self
assessment for your performance review is bring
your receipts. What metrics did you hit that
demonstrate what a great job that you did at work?
Ideally, these are going to be numerical.
Quantitative receipts are always preferred. So
things like exceeding your sales quota, having
high customer or project satisfaction scores
exceeding expectations. When you're handling
support cases, whatever it is, that is for your
job. And it should be pretty clear, if you're n
t familiar with what it is definitely ask your b
ss. When you're preparing to write yourself a
praisal is to find your receipts, you want to m
ke sure that you have all of the evidence that y
u need that demonstrates what a great job that y
u've done. So based on however your actual job as
measured, make sure that you have all of those me
rics in front of you. If you have done so
ething like taking on a strategic high impact pr
ject, like how I teach my clients to do in my ca
eer glow up program, then you also want to make su
e that you're getting the benchmarks of the ot
er impacts that you've had in the business. The ne
t thing that you need to do is you need to just ta
e an inventory of your awesomeness. This is so
ething that I highly recommend that you do on a re
ular basis document all of the achievements th
t you've had, and not just you know, the grand me
sureable things like we just did in our re
eipts. But what are the other ways that you've im
acted your team, your business? And how have yo
demonstrated your professional growth this ye
r, this can be things like demonstrating that yo
were crucial to a key initiative that your te
m undertook this year, or it can be gathering te
timonials from your colleagues or your cu
tomers that talk about how awesome you are. Th
s is also a great time for you to be intro re
lective is that a word? reflective? I hope it is
I'm going to stick with it anyway is but take so
e time to consider what you are truly best at wh
n it comes to doing your job. What are you do
ng better than your teammates? What are the th
ngs that you feel really confident doing? And wh
t are things that you do really well that are sh
wing up in the end results that you get. And th
t actually brings me directly into the third st
p. And this one is actually part of your gr
ater career strategy. So if you haven't pieced wh
t this one together yet, now is definitely the ti
e to do so because this will make your self ap
raisal and your performance review so much sm
other and so much better. And that is knowing yo
r ua q i bet that you are great at a lot of th
ngs. And I bet that you have a lot of co
pliments and a lot of areas of recognition for yo
r work already. But what are you uniquely aw
some at doing what truly sets you apart, this sh
uld be the focus area for your self appraisal an
really everything that you do in your career. An
I actually have a whole workshop that helps yo
figure out what your you aq is and how to ac
ually use it. So I'll drop the link down below be
ause it's free. And I would love for you to ch
ck it out. Now the fourth step in doing your se
f appraisal for performance review is where th
ngs start to get a little bit tricky for a lot of
people, and you might be one of them. If your se
f appraisal has an inventory where you have to sc
re yourself on different competencies, it's ti
e for you to make sure that you have inventory aw
reness. One of the mistakes that I've seen way to
many high achievers do is they have downgraded th
mselves on their self appraisal. So where they ar
exceptional things. They're like, Oh, like I'm av
rage, I'm I guess I'm okay. And here's the go
cha. I have spoken to hiring managers that when th
y're on the fence, when it comes to appraisal wi
l actually look to the self appraisal if it's al
eady visible to them, and actually base their ra
ings based on how someone has rated themselves. Th
t's right, they're relying on your self aw
reness so that they don't have to be aware of yo
r awesomeness. They just want you to tell them, I
on't want this to be you. This isn't to say th
t you should completely over inflate and not be re
sonable. I do believe in accountability and ac
uracy and doing this. But if you have an in
entory checklist for different competencies for yo
r role that you need to score yourself against, I
ant you to think about how everyone else on yo
r team would score and how you feel like you wo
ld actually score against other people. Ob
iously, you don't have full visibility into wh
t everyone is doing and how everyone is. But ba
ed on your assumptions, I want you to think ab
ut how you would score yourself on that scale. Ar
you generally better than other people in your te
m? Is it something that other people are ge
erally better than you? Or do you feel like yo
're kind of at the same place as everyone else an
score yourself appropriately there.
And if you are on the fence about where to put
yourself I would say to err on lifting yourself up
as opposed to scaling yourself down. That's just
my opinion. I would actually Let us know what your
thought is on that point down below. The fifth
step in your self appraisal is the most important
one. And if you mess this one up, your performance
review might end up being a nightmare, as opposed
to just a praise party for you. When writing your
self appraisal, or doing your self assessment for
your performance review, do not be bashful now is
not the time for you to be humble and exercise and
an excessive amount of humility and just be like,
Oh, yeah, you know, I guess it's okay and start to
undermine yourself. No, I want you to be proud AF
over the things that you've accomplished in your
career, the impacts that you've made, the growth
that you've achieved, and all of those kinds of
things. And in any written aspect to your self
assessment, which a lot of self appraisals are
going to have. Make sure that you're integrating
things like power verbs, this is a time for you to
brag about yourself, unapologetically. And you
know, you should, because you're awesome. Again,
I've spoken to too many people here who have kind
of err towards giving other people credit or
underplaying their achievement. And it doesn't
translate very well in a performance review
setting, performance review and self assessment
are really all about tooting your own horn, I know
that might not be something that is comfortable
for you, but step out of your comfort zone for at
least this period of time. Because this is going
to actually allow you to showcase what's gone
really well, to re emphasize that to your manager,
and anyone else who is going to review your self
assessment and your performance review, which you
know, can come up at promotion time and stuff like
that. And ultimately, it's going to be a nudge
towards you embracing your own awesomeness and
getting comfortable with it. Because you know,
being exceptional isn't always easy. And I know
that you might be struggling with that, but we
want to get you moving towards embracing it. And
on that note, I actually want to talk about this
sixth step in your self assessment for your
performance review. And that is to grow from
greatness. One of the things that is so
commonplace in corporate America that drives me
absolutely batty is to focus on your weakness as
an area of growth. Guess what, if you have zero
talent, it's something naturally, you're never
going to be the best at it. Your focus on the
things that you aren't so good at should be that
you're just good enough that they don't hold you
back. For example, I can't tell you how many self
assessments I've had that it told me I talk way
too fast, I can talk slightly slower, but you
know, it's never gonna be a human pace for me,
just not gonna happen. So my goal was never to
talk at a normal human pace. My goal was to just
slow it down enough that most people could
understand most of what I was saying, but my
friend, the thing that you are naturally good at
your you aq, the greatness that you already
possess, that is what you should be amplifying and
cultivating, that is your highest potential,
taking things that you have a natural aptitude and
interest in. And then focusing on being the
absolute best at those things, is what is going to
truly skyrocket your career. And also from
perspective shift here, one thing I want you to
consider is that the things that you're not so
good at are actually the things that allow you to
be great at other things, if you're overly aware
of the things that you're not so good at. What I
want you to do is take a couple of minutes after
you've watched this video, think about the flip
side of those things. Now I want you to write down
the goals for the things that you're great at. And
then I want you to think of a few ideas of how you
can be better at the things that you're already
great at. And that is actually going to bring us
to step seven of your self assessment for your
performance review. And that is goal setting. Of
course, you're going to have annual goal setting
and I hope that it's goal setting. That actually
means something now is definitely the time for you
to set good goals about where you want to go in
your career. Next, what skills do you want to
develop? What experience do you want to gain when
you include this on yourself assessment in your
performance review, it's giving you an opportunity
to talk to your manager about how they can help
get you there. Remember for your career goals, if
your manager is not aware of that, they're not
going to be able to support you fully. So make
sure that you're crystal clear on them and that
you take this opportunity to communicate them. If
you haven't already, I definitely recommend that
you go and check out this video right now that is
actually going to help you set your career goals
for next year. If this video helps you prepare to
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besties here as always, thank you so much for
watching. I will see you in the next one. Bye for
now.