Whether you are evaluating your own goals on your self assessment, or evaluating individuals' goals on your team, it's important to consider not only the "what," but the "how." 

What you evaluate is the content of the goal itself -- timelines met, deliverables created or sent, changes made. Setting SMART goals helps with evaluating what was done in terms of goal progress. The more specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound the goal, the easier it is to assess what was completed. 

Also important is how goals were achieved. Did you collaborate with stakeholders to make sure what you created met their needs? Did you take risks and come up with an innovative solution no one saw before? Did you work with a diverse group to ensure you listened to different voices and created something that reflects our community? Providing insights into how you (or your employees) met their goals helps to show how you are living our GW values, demonstrating our service priorities, or showing leader behaviors in all you do. 

Your goals do not need to be at 100% completion in order to have a successful check-in. Some goals take multiple years to complete, so demonstrating progress that meets the expectations you and your manager set is what counts. 

We recommend utilizing milestones to show how much work has gone into your goals. Milestones are steps or achievements necessary to make progress toward goals. Even if your goal is not 100% complete, your manager will be able to evaluate your progress and give performance feedback. 

Goal comments will also be an important part of completing your check-in. Your goal comments will provide additional information and context to your manager that will allow them to evaluate your performance. 

This is the second part of our podcast on how to develop personality.

Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions, perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar.

You might like going out for parties but your friend might prefer staying back at home reading his/her favourite book. It is really not necessary that if you like partying around, your friend will also like the same. Here comes the role of personality.

What an individual sees in his childhood days and most importantly his/her growing days form his personality. How an individual is raised plays an important role in shaping his/her personality.

Personality is nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality.

Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions, perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar.

You might like going out for parties but your friend might prefer staying back at home reading his/her favourite book. It is really not necessary that if you like partying around, your friend will also like the same. Here comes the role of personality.

What an individual sees in his childhood days and most importantly his/her growing days form his personality. How an individual is raised plays an important role in shaping his/her personality.

Personality is nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality.

The brain is involved in everything we do and, like any other part of the body, it needs to be cared for too.

Exercising the brain to improve memory, focus, or daily functionality is a top priority for many people, especially as they get older. That said, people of all ages can benefit from incorporating a few simple brain exercises into their daily life, which we’ll explore in more detail in this article.

This is the part two of Improving Brain Power, Improving Life.

The brain is involved in everything we do and, like any other part of the body, it needs to be cared for too.

Exercising the brain to improve memory, focus, or daily functionality is a top priority for many people, especially as they get older. That said, people of all ages can benefit from incorporating a few simple brain exercises into their daily life, which we’ll explore in more detail in this article.

Destructive criticism is negative feedback that harms, undermines, or offends the recipient. It may also impact the person’s reputation and prestige or denigrate their creations or achievements.

Destructive criticism often comes in the form of a personal attack or emotional outburst. It may be based on prejudice, such as sexism or racism, or result from the critic’s own frustrations and insecurities.

For example, if you question an employee’s way of doing things, it might make them feel defensive or inadequate. They might then react by lashing out at you or others around them.

Rather than defending themselves, they attack — and the result is often destructive criticism.

Destructive criticism is usually vague and non-specific. It focuses on people’s personal attributes rather than their actions — for example, calling someone stupid for making a mistake, rather than explaining what they did wrong.

Are you consciously designing your life? Do you really understand what that means and how to do it?

This matters because, in a time when online marketers are pitching their services or products, promising that they’ll give you the time and financial freedom you need to create your “life by design,” it is important for you to have an understanding of what designing your life actually looks like and how to do it effectively.

The problem is that, while it sounds great in theory, most people don’t understand what it means to create a meaningful life by design, and they do not have the first clue where to start to make that happen when they feel stuck.

BTS is is the one of the unique topic we had picked. We hope you will find is useful (It's not about Music Band).

In previous episode we shared 3 point on how to stop procrastination and in this episode we are going to share remaining points.

Do you put off work you know you’ll need to accomplish eventually, even if this habit increases pressure for you and others? Procrastination may seem like a way to avoid stress, but it’s more likely to increase stress in the long run. And the tendency isn’t always limited to work and school; chronic procrastinators often delay important tasks in their personal lives, like household chores or scheduling doctors’ appointments.

Luckily, procrastination isn’t a permanent characteristic. Like any other habit, it can be unlearned—and the first step is usually to figure out the cause. Here's how to stop procrastinating for good.