Year-End Performance Rating

The Issue: Rating our individual and collective performances over the last year to see where we could have done better.

Our View: It’s a healthy exercise rating our performances to see where we were complacent when we should have been proactive.

Every year’s-end, it’s a healthy exercise rating our individual and collective performances in our respective profession or vocation. On a scale of 1-10, how did you do as head of your organization, an employee, a spouse, a student and could you have done better? The answer is obviously in the positive given that there’s always room for improvement.

As a policy-maker, how would you rate your performance and were the measures you have pushed through both chambers substantive? Did they address and offer solutions to, i.e., the worsening economic doldrums or did you add fuel to a raging fire as to stifle expansion and further derail wealth and jobs creation? Did you take a stand on Interior’s OIA’s agenda to takeover and compromise the democratic process or the rights of governance to self-government? If so, how did you fare? If not, why not and why the complacency? Or was it the obvious lack of clarity and purpose that have contributed to your role as Zachares the mute?

As a public sector employee, were you up to the task of facilitating assistance to the general public who pay taxes so that you can bring home the bacon every two weeks? Or did you employ the unearned attitude of royal arrogance just to delay prompt delivery of your fiduciary responsibilities?

Or did you proactively did your best in the delivery of services to the general public seeking help? And did you go about such delivery with common courtesy?

These are often difficult questions in that it involve the human and other equations in the performance of our individual duties and responsibilities.

This is to say that none of us is a robot and must deal with the human equation daily. This and the myriad of issues that compete for our attention make the daily grind to do everything right next to impossible. But we can take comfort in the fact that we’ve given it our all with honesty, vision, commitment, inspiration, competency and credibility.

If per chance your rating falls below five, it should be obvious that you stumbled somewhere perhaps out of inadvertence or that your intended goal were derailed by other factors beyond your control. But it really doesn’t hurt nor harm you and the people you serve by making convictions to do better the next time around. If we individually give it our all, the benefits for the majority will be greater down the stretch. Through the years our forefathers have dealt with adversity and have withstood them all. There’s no reason why we can’t employ the same quiet determination and resiliency. Merry Christmas!