In our earlier conversation [Part I] we introspected two major aspects regarding appraisal
What does appraisal mean to you?
Are you serious about appraisal?
Let us continue our introspection and discuss the most critical aspect - What is appraisal and how easy it is or can be.
You know and Wikipedia quotes "A appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated (generally in terms of quality, quantity, cost, and time) typically by the corresponding manager or supervisor. It is the process of obtaining, analyzing, and recording information about the relative worth of an employee to the organization. It is an analysis of an employee's recent successes and failures, personal strengths and weaknesses, and suitability for promotion or further training. It is also the judgement of an employee's performance in a job based on considerations other than productivity alone."
The final frontier - As a student, in most of the subjects I was absolute dumb. I hated subjects like history, geography, social studies, later computer science, compiler construction, statistics, project management etc. In exams when I use to 'just about manage' clearing those subjects, I used to feel 'great' - simply out of this world.
However, courtesy of other subjects, I could manage to be in the top 20 or even 15 in the overall ranking, but never in the top 5 or 10.
Bottom line is be fair when you rank/rate yourself against the criteria in the appraisal form - avoid trying to go overboard just because you felt great or you want to feel great.
Let us now try to figure out how easy/difficult appraisal can be and here is a simple technique - Try answering the questions below as a rapid-fire quiz
Shall we begin: So for the last appraisal period (to simplify assume last 1 month)
If you have clocked the time then that is how simple or difficult it actually is.
Now it is just a matter putting it all together - all syntax, clear and concise language and that is it.
Congratulations - You are now Appraisal ready!
Hmm, Is that all?
Not really, Appraisal is associated/often correlated with pay hikes, increments, bonus, promotions. So in the next section we will inspect the key factors that could and does affect these numbers or the final outcome.
What does appraisal mean to you?
Are you serious about appraisal?
Let us continue our introspection and discuss the most critical aspect - What is appraisal and how easy it is or can be.
You know and Wikipedia quotes "A appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated (generally in terms of quality, quantity, cost, and time) typically by the corresponding manager or supervisor. It is the process of obtaining, analyzing, and recording information about the relative worth of an employee to the organization. It is an analysis of an employee's recent successes and failures, personal strengths and weaknesses, and suitability for promotion or further training. It is also the judgement of an employee's performance in a job based on considerations other than productivity alone."
The final frontier - As a student, in most of the subjects I was absolute dumb. I hated subjects like history, geography, social studies, later computer science, compiler construction, statistics, project management etc. In exams when I use to 'just about manage' clearing those subjects, I used to feel 'great' - simply out of this world.
However, courtesy of other subjects, I could manage to be in the top 20 or even 15 in the overall ranking, but never in the top 5 or 10.
Bottom line is be fair when you rank/rate yourself against the criteria in the appraisal form - avoid trying to go overboard just because you felt great or you want to feel great.
Let us now try to figure out how easy/difficult appraisal can be and here is a simple technique - Try answering the questions below as a rapid-fire quiz
Shall we begin: So for the last appraisal period (to simplify assume last 1 month)
- How many times you have felt satisfied or got the feeling of 'personal sense of achievement'?
- How many times you have felt good, very good, proud and extremely proud about the activities you have performed?
- How many times you have shared/celebrated your achievements - felt or you could not stop yourself from sharing what and how you have done with your peers/seniors?
- How many times you have felt you are doing something important, crucial, valuable?
- How many times you are completely lost (engrossed) in what you were doing, to the extent that you forget almost everything or you loose sense of time?
- How many times you have felt eagerness/excited to return to work place asap?
- How many times you have felt 'Ah just another day - Two punch one lunch kind of day' while coming to work place?
- How many times you have felt good, very good, proud and extremely proud while closing your day?
- How many times you have felt dull, boring, dragged while closing your day?
- How many times you have felt like running away or escaping from the work place?
- How many times when a problem at hand is solved with the help of peers you felt - atlast done and move on to next problem, a sigh of relief and forget, wondered how you missed the trick, spent some time understanding how it was solved?
- When you were stuck with a problem - do you consult with at least couple of other members, do you expect them to give you a direction, do you expect a solution?
- How many times you were/are aware of what is happening around you - in your work place, within your organization?
- How many times, within your project, you were/are curious to know what other members are doing?
- How many times you were/are curious to know what members from other projects are doing and how they are doing?
- How many times you have willingly participated in thinking through or trying to solve other members problem?
- How many times other members/peers have actively pulled you in a conversation to discuss a problem they are facing?
- How many times have you set your own time targets/estimates for completing the job/tasks assigned to you?
- How do you think you have performed i.e How many times you have clocked - just in time, slightly delayed, badly delayed, exceeded your own expectations (completed ahead of time)?
- How many times your senior comes to you and enquire about the status - do you feel this as act of micro management, nagging, part of their job, something else?
- When a job is handed over to you, do you give a sense of confidence/assurity about the job?
- How often do you communicate (using any mode of communication) with your peers, seniors, higher level authority?
- How many times the conversation is just a formality, general hobbies - personal plans,a question/answer session, discussion?
- How many times the conversation is initiated by you v/s initiated by others?
- How many times you drive the conversation, participate in the conversation, act as a active listener, act as a silent spectator.
- How often do you try to provide, your seniors, a sense of time limit on when and how the job would be or could be done?
- How often do you appraise your seniors when there is likely to be delay or do you assume that seniors would come to know?
- How many times you have proposed alternative ways of completing the task?
- How many times you have given suggestions for the betterment of the overall solution/job?
- How many of those suggestions were/are at a task level, project level, group level or organization level?
- How many of your suggestions have been accepted by the team, group, organization?
- How many activities have you performed in total (actually completed) = small, average, big, very big?
- How many activities have you performed in total (actually completed) = lesser importance, important, very important, crucial?
If you have clocked the time then that is how simple or difficult it actually is.
Now it is just a matter putting it all together - all syntax, clear and concise language and that is it.
Congratulations - You are now Appraisal ready!
Hmm, Is that all?
Not really, Appraisal is associated/often correlated with pay hikes, increments, bonus, promotions. So in the next section we will inspect the key factors that could and does affect these numbers or the final outcome.
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