Byline Performance Review Self-Assessment Template Made Easy

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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 write your self assessment make sure and give it a thumbs up it really does help my channel and while you're down there, do consider subscribing because I would love for you to be one of my career besties here as always, thank you so much for watching. I will see you in the next one. Bye for now.