I just received my first performance evaluation in my current job. It occurred to me, just after reading it, that I should consider, for each statement in it, whether that information was surprising. From that, I obtained two plausible and relevant conclusions about where I am miscalibrated about my own performance.
The next step could be to estimate which criteria seem to be valued most, and optimize for them. Make list of things you could do, estimate their costs, and based on your evaluation try to estimate the benefit. Choose the ones with the best ratio.
Sometimes you are miscalibrated about your own performance. But sometimes the management is not aware of what you do. Part of success is to make all your good work known. Mathematically speaking, your work is w, how it appears to management is a×w, and your reward is r(a×w), not r(w). It is good to increase w, but it is also important to increase a.
(If you don’t communicate something to the management, it can be forgotten, or if you happen to have a colleague skilled in Dark Arts, they might present it to the management as their own success.)
I just received my first performance evaluation in my current job. It occurred to me, just after reading it, that I should consider, for each statement in it, whether that information was surprising. From that, I obtained two plausible and relevant conclusions about where I am miscalibrated about my own performance.
The next step could be to estimate which criteria seem to be valued most, and optimize for them. Make list of things you could do, estimate their costs, and based on your evaluation try to estimate the benefit. Choose the ones with the best ratio.
Sometimes you are miscalibrated about your own performance. But sometimes the management is not aware of what you do. Part of success is to make all your good work known. Mathematically speaking, your work is w, how it appears to management is a×w, and your reward is r(a×w), not r(w). It is good to increase w, but it is also important to increase a.
(If you don’t communicate something to the management, it can be forgotten, or if you happen to have a colleague skilled in Dark Arts, they might present it to the management as their own success.)