I’m doing a performance evaluation for my government job for the first time in awhile. I hate it. I think I do a great job and my boss always lowers excellent to satisfactory in one area, because he thinks if it says excellent throughout it doesn’t look realistic.
In tbt past, he would pick the area of communication and say I need to work on my communication with team members. Maybe he is right, but idk, I think I communicate well…If someone is being rude to someone else, I call them on it. If they are being rude to me, I call them on it. So I’ve gotten a reputation for being a “troublemaker” and he likes to say that’s why I should work on communication (I think he means he wants me to shut up which I will not do).
This year we get to pick what our area of improvement is and if he agrees he’ll leave it. If he doesn’t we will have a conversation about it.
So what should I put as an area of improvement when I think I’m a really good worker and can’t think of an area that needs more work?
Btw – I used to think I needed to work on public speaking but since then I’ve done a lot of work on that and improved it. I don’t think I’m perfect but I think my work is across the board A- and it feels silly to call an A- an area of improvement.
Any thoughts or suggestions welcome!
Tl:dr – what should I put for area of improvement on a self-performance review.