Getting Results

I have been at my placement for over four months now and I recently had a meeting with my boss to evaluate what I had been able to contribute to the business, and how far my skills had developed. My boss and I sat down and looked at all I had achieved learnt and discussed what else I would like to learn. It was not an overly formal performance appraisal however it was interesting and productive.
The first thing we were able to evaluate was what I had contributed to the organisation. Thus far I succeeded in affiliating a lot more local government agencies to the National Disability Services, Companion Card Program. The local government agencies who are not interested in affiliating also do me the great favour of passing the information on to businesses that they believe may be interested. We were able to review the figures and use this as a mean to evaluate the results I had been able to achieve.
As any PR consultant the role I have is incredibly communicative and I am constantly networking and building up a contacts list. Another thing we were able to evaluate was this contacts list and review which ones were beneficial.
It was a very casual meeting however it was interesting to sit down and take stock. We were able to talk about how I felt in the organisation and where I would like to go. I found the whole process incredibly productive and allowed me to really reflect. I have experienced performance appraisals before however only the retail and hospitality sector. Obviously those performance reviews were a lot more basic and there wasn’t a lot of dialogue between myself and my superior. There was a lot of interaction between us and I really liked the more discursive approach. The performance appraisal was very interesting and I felt as though my first one went really well.