Whether you are evaluating your own goals on your self assessment, or evaluating individuals' goals on your team, it's important to consider not only the "what," but the "how." 

What you evaluate is the content of the goal itself -- timelines met, deliverables created or sent, changes made. Setting SMART goals helps with evaluating what was done in terms of goal progress. The more specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound the goal, the easier it is to assess what was completed. 

Also important is how goals were achieved. Did you collaborate with stakeholders to make sure what you created met their needs? Did you take risks and come up with an innovative solution no one saw before? Did you work with a diverse group to ensure you listened to different voices and created something that reflects our community? Providing insights into how you (or your employees) met their goals helps to show how you are living our GW values, demonstrating our service priorities, or showing leader behaviors in all you do. 

Your goals do not need to be at 100% completion in order to have a successful check-in. Some goals take multiple years to complete, so demonstrating progress that meets the expectations you and your manager set is what counts. 

We recommend utilizing milestones to show how much work has gone into your goals. Milestones are steps or achievements necessary to make progress toward goals. Even if your goal is not 100% complete, your manager will be able to evaluate your progress and give performance feedback. 

Goal comments will also be an important part of completing your check-in. Your goal comments will provide additional information and context to your manager that will allow them to evaluate your performance. 

This is the second part of our podcast on how to develop personality.

Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions, perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar.

You might like going out for parties but your friend might prefer staying back at home reading his/her favourite book. It is really not necessary that if you like partying around, your friend will also like the same. Here comes the role of personality.

What an individual sees in his childhood days and most importantly his/her growing days form his personality. How an individual is raised plays an important role in shaping his/her personality.

Personality is nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality.

Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions, perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar.

You might like going out for parties but your friend might prefer staying back at home reading his/her favourite book. It is really not necessary that if you like partying around, your friend will also like the same. Here comes the role of personality.

What an individual sees in his childhood days and most importantly his/her growing days form his personality. How an individual is raised plays an important role in shaping his/her personality.

Personality is nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality.