MAKING YOUR end of year

APPRAISAL

365 times more USEFUL

I’ve never met anyone who finds end of year

appraisals useful. HR departments and

consultants design great methods,

Managers execute the process diligently

and every employee wants to do well - so

why aren’t they useful?

I once met a lady who wanted to win an

Olympic gold medal. She had a plan, a

coach that had previously coached athletes

to win gold but she was only the150th in the

world. How did she go on to win multiple

gold medals? One planned, measured,

analysed step per day.

Step 1.

Set your big goal, a dream you desperately want.

Turn Step 1 into success

Slice your dream into daily sized chunks.

Improve one piece of your performance today.

Measure the improvement.

Analyse.

Create next target.

Get inspired.

Dream

Perform

Measure

Analyse

Focus on improvement

goals

Making daily sized chunks

A. Decompose the big goal into parts that make

sense to you.

B. Decompose those parts into smaller pieces

C. If necessary take those pieces and break them

apart further until you’re at the point of a task

you complete in a day

High level goal An example component part

Develop commercial awareness

Build the financial model for worldwide sales of Product Y

Demonstrate leadership capability

Publish agenda before meeting and keep it to time

Improve effectiveness in the new matrix team structure

Build a partitioned task list to effectively manage time

Decomposing goals to usable component parts

Example of creating the daily sized chunks

Big Goal: Get promoted to VP of product

A. Parts include : External profile, Profile with

Board, Building my team, Refining the products,

Managing customers, etc.

B. Pieces of “Profile with board” include: Chairing

my meetings more effectively, Participating in

exec meetings more effectively, etc

C. Task in a day: “Chairing meetings more

effectively” include: Prepare and distribute

agenda including timings and planned

outcomes. Prepare clear and concise

presentation material. Facilitate timings etc.

Check your progress at the

end of the week, month

and year.

Every working day you can

take a step to your Gold

Medal!

The author:

Introduced new team and personal improvement

methods at 3 companies, 8 rowing clubs and 1

international sports team. Participants

experienced a dramatically accelerated

learning path.

Email: peterharrytaylor@gmail.com for more information

The fight for improvement

Power Time Graph

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C

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Perform

Analyse

Focus on improvement targets