I just need to burst this out before I doze off to sleep.
At work, we are already near the end of the 1st quarter of the year, and it means “interim evaluation” of individual’s performance. To be honest, I love and hate this stage of the year at the same time. I love it because you will be constructively evaluated based on your performance – and having the feedbacks of your colleagues will help you develop your work ethics/technical expertise and learn more about how you will be able to provide efficient and effective work output. At the same time, you will be graded based on this evaluation.
On the other hand, I hate it because it really requires lots of deeeeep reflection and s-p-e-c-i-f-i-c evaluation of a person and of yourself. (w/c means English, English and English!) waaaah! [now that’s the immature side of me who’s talking. hehe!]
Here are the two skills that I need to develop:
- Managing people
- Effective business language communication
My performance manager wants me to add “technical skills/expertise” – but I guess it’s not really something to dwell too much on. Technical skills can just be easily learned by spending hours and hours reading books and cases. Though having the ready answer in a few seconds is quite impressive to the executive directors and other client’s officers, I do not have a goal to be a “walking Accounting Standards dictionary”. [hehe!]
