For my company's annual self-evaluations, I gave myself quite low marks (1.68/4 overall rating, thought that still qualifies as "meets expectations" and made some extremely critical comments about my own personnel management abilities. Just curious if anyone has received similar feedback from one of their employees before and how they received it. I've been at my company for 13 years and am frankly pretty burned out on my current position.
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Last: 8 mo ago by TexasAggie73
I have never had a direct report go that low. I would personally look at this from your standpoint and force yourself to look hard and decide. Is this time to make some changes to be better at my job or is it time to find a new job?
It might be all job related things that need to change.
It might be that you have things in your personal live that are negatively effecting you at work that you need to deal with.
Back to your specific question as a Sr. Manager type that truly cares about my staff I would be very concerned if i saw this evaluation. I would be having some conversations with you and likely HR to see what we could do to help.
I do not like getting replies to these things from employees that you can tell they put no thought into. You get three versions of this, One is I am perfect in everything, or I am exactly middle in every category, or I am overly critical of myself (never seen one as low as yours). Honest self evaluations have to be done to really help growth and change.
It might be all job related things that need to change.
It might be that you have things in your personal live that are negatively effecting you at work that you need to deal with.
Back to your specific question as a Sr. Manager type that truly cares about my staff I would be very concerned if i saw this evaluation. I would be having some conversations with you and likely HR to see what we could do to help.
I do not like getting replies to these things from employees that you can tell they put no thought into. You get three versions of this, One is I am perfect in everything, or I am exactly middle in every category, or I am overly critical of myself (never seen one as low as yours). Honest self evaluations have to be done to really help growth and change.
I get the overly critical angle but it may be out of his managers hands with a score that low. I'd be hesitant to be THAT self deprecating.
1.68/4 meets expectations?
Problem with that is how do you rank versus your peers and how do they rate themselves? You may think you need a lot of improvement but you're better than your coworkers who rated themselves high.njohn87 said:
For my company's annual self-evaluations, I gave myself quite low marks (1.68/4 overall rating, thought that still qualifies as "meets expectations" and made some extremely critical comments about my own personnel management abilities. Just curious if anyone has received similar feedback from one of their employees before and how they received it. I've been at my company for 13 years and am frankly pretty burned out on my current position.
Yeah it's kind of a goofy scale where it's like:birdman said:
1.68/4 meets expectations?
1. Needs improvement
2. Meets expectations
3. Exceeds expectations
4. Outstanding
or something like that. So I guess an average of 1.5-2.5 is nominally "meets expectations."
The conversation is more important than the form. If you can be self critical, it can facilitate a better conversation. It sounds like your self evaluation was meant to spur a good conversation.
Uh…no. I gave myself top marks but our system allowed a your manager or supervisor to also rate you and you had to sign off or argue your point to a final rating. Our ratings often had an impact for raises and promotions so I would never intentionally mark my self lower than a 5. It allowed me to put. Manager on the spot and make him defend his position which was almost always easy to counter and negotiate up. Basically our ratings were depending on how good of a negotiator you were.
When it was time to "downsize" 1 were kept and 5 were let go. Lol.
When it was time to "downsize" 1 were kept and 5 were let go. Lol.
This whole system is so goofy and design to screw employees if they want to. Did that psychopathic idiot Jack Welch invent it?
In the end, all that matters is what your manager grades you. I have never seen a situation where your self-grades mattered. Sometimes there is a vast chasm in one's own and manager's rating. Useless HR activity.
In the end, all that matters is what your manager grades you. I have never seen a situation where your self-grades mattered. Sometimes there is a vast chasm in one's own and manager's rating. Useless HR activity.
Many years ago, my regional manager gave me an exceeding expectations rating. On his exit interview with the local boss, a t-sip, stated he wanted me replace. I was called in and given 60 day notice.
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