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Performance Reviews and Transformation
I‘ve resisted performance reviews at CTI for years. I thought that the structure was too confining!! Much to my surprise, however, I‘ve come to love doing performance reviews. I‘ve discovered that it can be such an important time to pull up and celebrate accomplishments over the past 12 month period. To look at the accumulation of what has happened, what is complete and not and what direction or pointing I have for the person moving forward.
We‘ve done a fair amount of work on our performance review process here at CTI and at present, it feels good to me…structured enough to provide clear direction and set objectives for the coming review period, spacious enough to include the uniqueness of the particular human being that is being reviewed.
Yesterday, I did a performance review with one of my executive team. Of course, she had accomplished a lot. She is incredibly productive and competent. What was more potent, however, than her accomplishments, was who she had become. The past year in her department has been very, very challenging. It was incredible to be able to walk through the whole of the year together and see clearly how each challenge had shaped and grown her. How she really was a different woman, a different leader out of the difficulty of this time.
Much as we long for those “dog days” of ease, it is the fire that hones and shapes us; that has us grow and evolve. As a result of this review, I saw how this beautiful woman was standing in a new place of self-respect and power. Of course I was aware of her “becoming” and the fullness of it hadn‘t quite hit me until I sat down and went through her year accomplishment by accomplishment, challenge by challenge.
Everything that happens is an opportunity to create; to grow and develop ourselves. The events that are the most challenging also offer the most friction and therefore the most transformation.
I‘d love to hear about a recent challenge in your life. What did you “create” from it? How did it shape, grow, evolve you?
KKH
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