Career Advice/Humor
Performance Self-Evaluations: Finally, a Chance to Talk About How Great I Am!
Shakespeare wrote, “To thine own self be true” but to thine boss, maybe embellish a little.
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At my American company, each associate is tasked with a yearly self-evaluation. Their leaders will later endorse the assessment or not. I suspect the goal in such a process is to allow for an honest self-reflection and hopefully acknowledgement of areas that could use improvement. That’s the goal, but let’s be real, we American’s rarely admit faults.
Being humble is not really our thing.
So, leaders end up each year reading about every self-perceived success and achievement, no matter how accurate or impactful, and rarely about any chances for improvement. Self-assessments end up being ridiculously optimistic masturbatory endeavors rather than honest reflections. And guess what? There’s a Song for That!
