Question

In order to evaluate where a team is, it is important for a leader to evaluate and reflect on his or her own goals and performance. Explain how you measure your own performance. How might you better evaluate yourself in terms of reaching your goals? In what ways do you see this impacting the importance of evaluating where a team is at in enhancing the performance of that team?

Answer 1

There are four factors that must be written down to self evaluate the goal and performance. The first one is the list of goals that was planned to be achieved as a team leader during the review period. The second one is the specific list of goals that were achieved during the review period by the team as a team leader. The third one is the observable factor where strategies planned by the team leader to achieve each goal is written down and the effectiveness of these strategies or their outcome is written next to it. The final one is the measurable factor where elements such as time taken to complete tasks, quality, and quantity maintained during achieving tasks or goals by individual team members during the review period are noted. Once these 4 factors are written down, they are closely analyzed. If the overall impression goes below average, it would mean failure as a TL, and identifying the reason for failure and rectifying them should be the next step. If the overall performance in achieving goals from the four factors is found above average, then the key factors responsible for the same must be noted and they must be maintained in the upcoming years. The performance of a TL is all about the entire output of the team in achieving a goal. If goals are achieved, then TL is above average in performance else below average. At several times factors such as inspiration to team members, daily training etc would have been given correctly by TL, but the overall outcome could be a failure. Here, we cannot say that TL is above average as his/her performance truly relies on teamwork outcome and not self output