peers and you “should do something about this,”you might list “per-
ceived as cooperative and empathetic by peers”under desired “Per-
sonal Characteristics.”- Collect documents that demonstrate that you have met or exceeded
expectations.Performance figures, letters of appreciation, awards, ci-
tations, certificates—anydocument that gives evidence of one or
more of the high-priority P.E.A.K.S. you have demonstrated since
your last performance review should be collected. To review the tech-
niques for getting documents you’ve earned that you don’t already
have, refer to “Strategies for Creating New Documents for Your Col-
lection,”in Chapter 2. - Organize your portfolio using a P.E.A.K.S. format.Sort the above
documents according to their P.E.A.K.S. categories. - Select the best documents to show.Choose the documents that give
the strongest evidence that you have met or exceeded important ex-
pectations. Since, unlike on a job interview, you will be trying to
show most, if not all, of the documents in your portfolio, try to select
no more than a dozen documents. - Assemble twocopies of your entire portfolio.Since you may be leav-
ing a copy of your entire portfolio with your boss, you should create
a second copy. The copy you leave with your boss should be some-
thing that can be easily slipped into a briefcase—a light, cardboard
binder that has metal clips that you fold back is probably preferable
to a heavier, three-ring, loose-leaf binder. Your boss’s copy should be
organized in the same way that yours is, with dividers and
P.E.A.K.S. headings. There is, of course, no need to delete propri-
etary information from internal documents.
Try to show the entireportfolio.Using a portfolio for an annual
performance review is different from using it for a job interview in that
you want your portfolio to become the center of attention. Obviously
you would like to linger on the P.E.A.K.S. that are most important to
your boss, but if you can, you should show every item in your portfolio.
Your goal is to demonstrate that you have met or exceeded as many of
your boss’s expectations as you can.
The kind of presentation that you are hoping to be able to make
would go something like this:Last year, these goals were identified:
We agreed I would accomplish this [list goals here]. Here is what I did [list
accomplishments here].
We agreed I would work on these skills [list deficiencies here]. Here is what
I did [list improvements here].
We were looking for a 125% increase in production and according to the
latest production report we are at 145%.In order to control the flow of your presentation, do not give your
boss a copy of your portfolio until after you are finished discussing the
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