Appraisal Personal Objectives

[Davidc]

100% management BS. Glad I don't get near it now. It stinks.

Find a training course - being held on the US West Coast (San Fransisco, San Diego, Los Angeles come to mind). It must be at least a week long.

Make your objective to attend it.

At their expense of course.

 

[Hover Fly]

Two objectivies?
1/ Still be in work this time next year.
2/ Keep the number of terrible, embarrassing expensive CU's you've made to less than, say, 10 (adjust figure depending on number of units worked per year).

 

[KevinG]

Just been told by my manager that I have to set two personal objectives and they must be measurable and challenging.

Now, I'm not an 18 year old starting their first job and I'm not a graduate looking to climb the corporate ladder. I dont want to get into management as it involves meetings, reports and dealing with personnel. I do NOT want to 'improve' myself.

I'm 42, I just want to do my job well and will take on anything the job needs to get done, but that's it, just want to pay my mortgage and go home.

FFS, fricking waste of space HR departments trying to justify their pointless and overpaid existence. Why can't they just fuck off?

Anyone else dread this part of their working life?

Yep, I've been on the appraiser and appraisee side and both are thoroughly unpleasant, unnecessary (mostly) and stressful. You know that you can do your job, you're not looking to have a full-on career so why the need for objective setting? How about just measure you on the quality of your work?

It always sadly seems to be a vehicle with which to criticise and not praise, a 'framework' as someone else mentioned that is just sooo inflexible. HR depts are supposed to be about people.

The bigger corporates are worse, find a smaller company, or work for yourself. The whole thing stinks but you hit a nerve. Rant over.

 

[philipbh]

It always sadly seems to be a vehicle with which to criticise and not praise, a 'framework' as someone else mentioned that is just sooo inflexible. HR depts are supposed to be about people.

Which is mad really, when you think about the fact that we all work in so called Dynamic Environments.

Frameworks (for strategic purposes) should be re appraised themselves from time to time, not just the day to day / operational side of things

 

[Norm]

HR depts are supposed to be about people.

Wrong!

Personnel Departments are about people, HR Departments are about the company.

Norm - HR Manager

 

[theclaud]

Oh FFS! - I feel sick...

Christ, that's nothing. SMART objectives are the tip of the iceberg. I've had to RACI, SWOT and PESTLE everything in sight.

 

[Kirstie]

Christ, that's nothing. SMART objectives are the tip of the iceberg. I've had to RACI, SWOT and PESTLE everything in sight.

Nooooooo not PESTLE. People actually use that in practice? And SWOT too? I thought that was for the MBA classroom and nowhere else. Seems like somebody took notice...

 

[snakehips]

Some years ago I had just avoided redundancy (it would have been untimely but oh how I yearned for it a short while later). I was at a training session for this sort of nonsense. After listening to a load of crap being spouted about personal objective I said that the biggest challenge facing me in the forthcoming six months would be to find some aspect of my job that I could describe as interesting.
In the ensuing silence you could hear the sound of jaws dropping.

Snake

My Library

 

[theclaud]

Nooooooo not PESTLE. People actually use that in practice? And SWOT too? I thought that was for the MBA classroom and nowhere else. Seems like somebody took notice...

I'm afraid so. Although whether it's actually any use to anyone is another question entirely. I've even learned to pronounce acronyms without a sneer in certain circumstances...

 

[rh100]

IT support monkey. Basically I just build and rebuild laptops most days. Easy, non-challenging work which suits me as I had been previously been made redundant and just want something to pay my mortgage and keep the roof over my head, then go home to the wife and enjoy my own time. The only personal objective I want to improve is how many cups of tea I can drink in a day.

QUOTE]

Tell them that your aim is to keep up with the technology - so you will need an IPADand at least 2 days a week to familiarise yourself with it

 

[tdr1nka]

Some years ago I had just avoided redundancy (it would have been untimely but oh how I yearned for it a short while later). I was at a training session for this sort of nonsense. After listening to a load of crap being spouted about personal objective I said that the biggest challenge facing me in the forthcoming six months would be to find some aspect of my job that I could describe as interesting.
In the ensuing silence you could hear the sound of jaws dropping.

I have my six month appraisal at work tomorrow afternoon.

Luckily, it's with my boss and only she & I work in the office so a lot of what needs to be covered we have already been discussing or are actually working on.
It's just a formality now, thank goodness!.

 

[ASC1951]

I've even learned to pronounce acronyms without a sneer in certain circumstances...

My Hero!

I've just some back from a meeting with the Head Honcho of a nameless quango, with whom we signed a contract last May. They have delivered less than 1% of what they committed themselves to, in writing.

After an hour and a half of management babble (the last third of which she spend checking her watch to make sure she didn't miss her 1st Class seat back to London) she reassured us that "we had her personal commitment to working with us to partner a framework to resolve our issues going forward".

I was so reassured I almost burst.

 

[just jim]

Cyclechat SWOT:

Strengths: quite good at bad puns
Weaknesses: Politics and Life
Opportunities: The Chain (to increase post count)
Threats: The Tea Thread (no idea about this one really)

 

[tdr1nka]

Cyclechat SWOT:

Strengths: quite good at bad puns
Weaknesses: Politics and Life
Opportunities: The Chain (to increase post count)
Threats: The Tea Thread (no idea about this one really)

Fixed that for you JJ.

 

[rich p]

I'm afraid so. Although whether it's actually any use to anyone is another question entirely. I've even learned to pronounce acronyms without a sneer in certain circumstances...

You've got a job?
How on earth do you find time to do that?