Self-Reviews can help you improve work performance and boost salary

Coworkers.com has offered self-review tools since it's inception. A recent article on Cube Rules discusses the real world benefits of self-reviews in the workplace:

"Your performance review facts become your performance review ratings. And what you can’t tell your coworkers is this: you will write an accurate self-review while most of your coworkers will not. If they write a self-review at all...

As a manager, I looked at hundreds of self-reviews given by the people that worked for me. I can count on one hand how many people provided a complete self-review. Those that did had one of two influences on my rating: they justified my thinking on the rating by providing facts and figures. Or they showed me accomplishments that I had forgotten about and needed to include in my thinking about the rating...

You understand that only the employees, focused on their career, did this accurate self-review, right? And when I say they justified my thinking on the rating by providing facts and figures, you realize that the justification was for a higher rating, right? More pay and a larger bonus..."

Honest, accurate, and frequent self-reviews not only help you focus on improving your skills, they can have a concrete impact on your career and compensation. The article quoted above makes this point quite clear.

• Read the full article at Cube Rules
• Use Coworkers.com to create & manage your Self-review

Helping Managers develop the Next Gen’s Social Skills

jasonseiden.com: "I have a client who complained about his subordinates because they lacked social abilities. Specifically, they wouldn’t pick up the phone. They didn’t know how...

Thanks to social media, Next Generation employees are developing socially in the reverse order as their managers. They’re not build out from a few key connections, they’re filtering down from an incredibly broad and shallow pool...

For a manager looking to take ownership for his or her team’s success, the take-away here is that what looks like a skill deficiency on the surface may actually be something else, such as a technological shift. The best thing to do in this case is to not fight the trend, but rather to accept it and go with it..."

Some interesting observations: check out the full article here