年底考評不用怕：高績效的6個祕密
With the year drawing to a close, it's performance evaluation time in many companies. Performance evaluations don't have to be stressful or nerve-wracking, especially if you follow these six tips to get ready for yours.
今年正接近尾聲，到了很多公司績效評估的時間。不必對績效評估有壓力或傷腦筋，特別是如果你準備時遵循了下面的六個技巧。
1. Realize that most managers hate doing performance evaluations. It's not that managers don't want to give you feedback, but structured performance evaluations can feel bureaucratic and take up a lot of time, especially if the manager has a large staff. As a result, many put them off or look for ways to get them done faster. As an employee, you can take advantage of this by making your evaluation easier for your manager.
1. 要意識到大多數經理討厭做績效評估。這並不是說經理不想給你反饋，但結構化的績效評估會讓人覺得官僚化而且佔用大量的時間，特別是如果經理管理了大量員工。因此，許多經理會把考評推遲或想法子儘快完成。作爲員工，你可以利用這一點讓你的經理更容易對你評估。
2. Let your manager know that you're looking forward to your evaluation, not dreading it. One reason managers fret over evaluations is that they assume they're nerve-wracking for employees. If you make it clear that you're looking forward to feedback, you immediately make the process more pleasant for the person charged.
2. 讓你的經理知道你對評估的期許，不要害怕它。經理擔心評估的一個原因是他們認爲這會讓員工很傷腦筋。如果你說清楚希望得到反饋，你立即讓負責評估的人更愉快的主導這個流程。
3. Evaluate yourself first. Some companies build self-assessments into their evaluation processes, and so you might be asked to fill out a self-evaluation before your manager does her piece of the process. But even if you aren't, you can do one anyway and supply it to your manager. It doesn't have to be hard – just list out what your goals were for the year and how much progress you made toward them, and add a section on strengths you bring to the job and a section on what you'd like to do better in the coming year. If you provide this to your manager before she needs to finish her own evaluation of you, there's a good chance that she'll pull directly from it when she writes her own.
3. 首先評估自己。一些公司的評估流程會包括自我評價，所以你可能會被要求在經理評估前先寫自我評價。但即使你沒被要求寫，你可以主動寫一份並交給你的經理。這並不難——只要列出你今年目標是什麼，你爲了達成目標努力了多少，並加上你給工作帶來了什麼優勢，在明年願意把哪些地方做的更好就可以了。如果你在經理評估前先把自己寫的給她，很有可能在她寫報告時會直接用你的話。
4. Start planning for your evaluation from the first day of the evaluation period. In other words, if you're evaluated every December, start thinking about your evaluation 12 months earlier, in January. Think about what your goals for the year should be, and lay out a plan to achieve them – including monthly or quarterly milestones to make sure you're on track. Then, work.toward those milestones, and at the end of the year when it's time for performance evaluations, you can ideally show your manager that you met all of your goals for the year.
4. 從評估時間段內的第一天就開始規劃。換句話說，如果你每年12月被評估，那就在12個月前，也就是1月，開始準備。想想你今年的目標，並制定計劃去實現它們——包括月度或季度目標來確保你的奮鬥方向是正確的。然後，朝着這些目標努力，那麼在今年年底業績評估的時候，你可以圓滿的告訴經理已經達成今年所有目標了。
5. Keep an evaluation file throughout the year. If you start trying to think about what you did well this year, you're unlikely to remember the fantastic reception your report got in February or that great praise you got in June. Instead, keep a file where you jot down notes on project successes during the year, so that it's handy when you're reflecting on your performance during evaluation time. You can even include notes of praise from others in the file and reference them in your review.
5. 保留一個評估文件。如果你開始努力思考今年哪些事做得很好，你不太可能記得2月份的報告反響很好或者6月得到了表揚。你可以用一個文件記下一年中成功的經歷，這樣在評估期間回想之前的表現就很方便了。你甚至可以在文件裏記下別人誇獎的具體內容，並在評估時引用。
6. Ask colleagues to give feedback to your manager. Ideally, as your manager reflects on your performance over the last year, she'll seek out input from other people who work with you closely and who might have insightful perspectives on your work. But don't wait to see if she does this, or take the chance that she might not ask the people best positioned to speak about your accomplishments. Instead, think of who particularly appreciates the work you do and tell them you'd be grateful if they'd provide input to your manager.
6. 讓同事給你的經理反饋。理想情況下，當你的經理回想過去一年你的表現時，她會詢問那些和你密切合作和對你的工作觀察比較仔細的人。但是不要被動等着看她是否會這樣做，或僥倖覺得她可能不會問那些最適合談論你成就的人。你應該想想誰特別欣賞你的工作，並說明如果他們願意告訴經理的話你會很感激。
