What time of year? you ask… It’s performance review time.
This time of year, usually sends many staff into belly loads of groans. I myself, grapple with the amount of various paperwork we have to fill in, and get a bit confused with the whole process and wonder “will this ever amount to anything?”
Well, this year I can see the progress, I can see where I was last year and how much I have accomplished over the year, and I can now methodically plot out my course for future work and refinement on my library, intranet and myself.
One of the most valuable things I have found that has been of benefit to myself this year is being involved with fellow library colleagues. As I work with one part time person (Katy), my involvement with other librarian has been out of my work environment. And it has been very rewarding this year. I also work on the Vic Specials Committee with Katy as I wanted to work with her outside of work. !! She’s awesome and such fun.
So, what are some of the things I wanted to work on in 2007? My leadership skills (done that via Aurora, professional coaching and many other personal reading and development items), redevelop the Intranet (big big tick) and work on my library services (always on going).
Big big clap to myself, hooray, things are rolling along well. I’m very proud.
Hi Jill, that’s great work! And yes you do work with good people – it makes things so much easier doesn’t it! I hear that Christian continues… you can’t get rid of him.
Ah ha, it’s so funny. I looked at the job files to see that we can wind Crisitian up, and then found LOTS more work. However, we were about to step out to morning tea to farewell him, so thought we couldn’t reneg on that. So, he’s had is farewell coffee, but continues to work with us for another week. What else will we find for him to do ??