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Give yourself an honest performance review

Give yourself an honest performance review

From the course: Leading Yourself

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Give yourself an honest performance review

- To lead yourself, you must know yourself. You've probably experienced performance reviews or a more optimistically framed equivalent from your boss or HR. Typically these traditional reviews, assess your job performance on a basic level. Are you meeting the competencies? Where are you falling short? Is your salary fair? But when you evaluate yourself, you want to look more introspectively, at a more nuanced set of categories. First how are you feeling? Not, are you sick or not? But how are you feeling about work? What's your motivation level? When are you the most motivated? How do you feel about your relationship with your boss? Emotions matter, they affect your performance. After you assess your emotional state at work, think about where you can improve each one of these areas. For example, if you realize that you're motivated by talking with customers, how can you make sure you're interacting with them on a…

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