Mid Year Review
Amazingly I'm coming up on six months in my new job. Of course I'm still the new person and I'm constantly asking "dumb" questions that it seems like everyone knows the answer to. I'm comfortable wandering around the cruise ship headquarters now amongst thousands of people and a growing number of friends. I'm working harder than I have in years, prepping myself for my meetings and trying to actually understand things I would have glossed over in the past.
I happened to start at Laws R Us as my organization was finishing their yearly reviews (review periods are staggered across the company). A few weeks ago at my group's leadership meeting my manager said "Oh yeah, everybody has to do their mid-year review by the end of May." Everyone who had been there longer than me groaned and someone said (predictably) "Do we have to?" My manager just gave them "the stare" and together we devised a very minimal set of instructions to send out to everyone.
Reviews are based on how you reach your goals (e.g., did I produce a certain set of documents for each program) AND on the manner in which you reached your goals. Were you innovative? How well did you communicate? Did your work align with the company or the organization's goals? These quality of behavior measures are called Key Success Factors and I'm told a lot of companies use them in reviews.
So today I went into the not-very-good but internally created tool for recording goals and reviews and wrote some stuff. Talking to my peers I got the distinct impression that this mid-year thing was not a big deal and I should use it as practice for my end-of-year review which is a big deal and will affect my raise. (Imagine that Widgeteers, a review that affects your raise!)
I suppose my manager and I will talk through the four paragraphs during my next one-on-one. I predict he'll say it's fine and then we'll go off into some side discussion about glaciers or something unrelated. Things are going okay and I'm not sweating it this time.
Speaking of Widgets, congrats to my friends that got their ten year jacket! You deserve a lot more than a jacket for surviving there for that long. I heard the big Holiday party in May was quite the pep rally and included the members of the Board flown in to hear the rhapsodic praise of their wisdom in running the company. As a shareholder I object to spending money on those airfares. They should have flown the ten-year people to New York for the weekend!
I happened to start at Laws R Us as my organization was finishing their yearly reviews (review periods are staggered across the company). A few weeks ago at my group's leadership meeting my manager said "Oh yeah, everybody has to do their mid-year review by the end of May." Everyone who had been there longer than me groaned and someone said (predictably) "Do we have to?" My manager just gave them "the stare" and together we devised a very minimal set of instructions to send out to everyone.
Reviews are based on how you reach your goals (e.g., did I produce a certain set of documents for each program) AND on the manner in which you reached your goals. Were you innovative? How well did you communicate? Did your work align with the company or the organization's goals? These quality of behavior measures are called Key Success Factors and I'm told a lot of companies use them in reviews.
So today I went into the not-very-good but internally created tool for recording goals and reviews and wrote some stuff. Talking to my peers I got the distinct impression that this mid-year thing was not a big deal and I should use it as practice for my end-of-year review which is a big deal and will affect my raise. (Imagine that Widgeteers, a review that affects your raise!)
I suppose my manager and I will talk through the four paragraphs during my next one-on-one. I predict he'll say it's fine and then we'll go off into some side discussion about glaciers or something unrelated. Things are going okay and I'm not sweating it this time.
Speaking of Widgets, congrats to my friends that got their ten year jacket! You deserve a lot more than a jacket for surviving there for that long. I heard the big Holiday party in May was quite the pep rally and included the members of the Board flown in to hear the rhapsodic praise of their wisdom in running the company. As a shareholder I object to spending money on those airfares. They should have flown the ten-year people to New York for the weekend!
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