Self-Performance Review: Goal Examples for the Most Popular Categories
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As we approach the midpoint of the year, the time for self-appraisals and self-performance reviews is right around the corner.
If you are proactive and dedicated to professional development, you most likely wrote down a list of performance goals at the beginning of the year. These may have been general ideas of how you wanted to improve, or ideally, specific and actionable SMART goals that utilized numbers and targets to help you aim for new heights.
You will now need to revisit your goals and evaluate your progress towards them.
Here are the most popular self performance review categories :
Quality of work
Teamwork
Accountability
Job Knowledge
Communication
Read on to find examples of goals for these five categories that can be used and referenced when reflecting back on your performance over the past year or several quarters.
Quality of work
Increased efficiency in the workplace by 10% by implementing agile practices.
Improved lead generation processes, contributing to an average increase of $500 in revenue per client.
Applied new measures to face-to-face interactions resulting in a 95% customer satisfaction rating.
Shadowed three employees on their on-site visits with customers. Wrote 10 key takeaways to find areas for personal improvement.
Included at least 3 resources in each writing sample to increase credibility and quality of content.
Teamwork
Made an effort to directly ask for ideas and opinions from each teammate during morning meetings.
Carried out a new method of group brainstorming that resulted in a 25% increase in ideas generated.
Collaborated with the team on 7 high-impact projects which delivered above expectations results.
Established bi-weekly meetings with immediate co-workers to discuss barriers and changes to allow us to work together better.
Gave praise to teammates in every group meeting to recognize talent and foster a positive work environment.
Accountability
Met deadlines for reports, submissions and other deliverables with a 90% success rate.
Took steps to reassess work and implement changes based on feedback from weekly 1:1 meetings with manager.
Asked for feedback and notes from direct teammates at least once a week.
Self reflected at the end of each week on performance and completed tasks.
Each month compiled all self reflection observations and created an action plan for next month.
Job knowledge
Attended 3 industry workshops and learned new information relevant to my position and daily duties.
Read and finished 2 books per quarter to expand knowledge and professional acumen.
Listened to 2 industry related podcasts every week during Q1.
Took an online course on digital marketing spanning 30 hours in Q2.
Completed [insert course/professional training] and passed the certification exam.
Communication
Reduced typos and errors in all outgoing communications to almost zero instances.
Emailed weekly status updates to clients by 4 p.m. each Friday.
Replied to high priority emails within 30 minutes of receipt.
Utilized Slack and other messaging tools daily to cut down on the number of unnecessary internal emails.
Scheduled time with my boss at least once a month to discuss my areas of concern and goals for the future.
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