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Season 2 - Episode 141 - What can we all learn from self-assessments? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Whoop. So how many of you have had to
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  take a self evaluation before? So you work for a company and
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  they ask you to critique yourself, basically that you're
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  going to have a review with someone and they say, hey before
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  you do that, why don't you give us your version of what you
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  think is the case? Because this is Corporate jargon
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  to see how far off you are from where they are and is this a
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  useful tool? So very interesting thing came
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  up this week. I have a client who runs a very
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  large department and her responsibility is to go in and
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  give reviews two teams and they come back to her first with
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  their self reviews. And often we have conversations
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  about what people say in their self reviews because her version
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  of the world that they're giving her is her version is completely
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  different than their version of the world and we often sit there
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  and debate how Did they come to this conclusion?
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  Now, most people who are in this type of role that she's in
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  probably are not doing the or making the effort that she is
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  making to try to see from the other person's point of view
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  often times, you know, they already have their decision
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  made. They are not going to try to dig
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  in and say, hey, let me take a look at this.
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  And say, what is the point that this person is trying to make?
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  What is their version of how this is going down?
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  But but my client has been getting cold.
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  In for a long, long time. And she is someone who's
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  extremely thoughtful and she would want someone to do that
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  for her. Therefore she is doing that for
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  them because she wants to be thoughtful and she wants to be
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  able to give them, you know, solid answers as to why she
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  can't maybe say what they want to say.
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  But as we're going through this process, we're talking about the
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  ability to be able to self assess and how critical that at
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  is to well-being. Also, we're talking about how,
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  you know, companies even schools.
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  Now, often don't grade on grades.
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  They will say I grew up at a time when you had to get a
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  grade, it was all predicated the letter was predicated on the
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  numbers but a lot of that's gone now and they'll say, you know,
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  meeting the standards meets at or exceeds expectations and
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  you're falling into categories, based on that, which is
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  incredibly frustrating when giving Feedback.
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  Because if you are meeting expectations or meeting and
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  exceeding expectations, there's a lot of ambiguity in those
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  words. So as we're going through all of
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  this, we're talking about how people self-assess and, you
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  know, obviously I spend a lot of time in this Arena.
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  So it's very easy for me to talk about it.
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  And one of the challenges that I think people have in
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  self-assessment is one being honest with themselves about
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  really their arm. Out of effort and how we
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  constantly tend to have a false sense of our efforts in, in the
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  scope of what other people are seeing.
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  So what I mean by that is we might be overwhelmed by things
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  but other people don't see that one.
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  It could be because we're not communicating it to because
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  we're doing things behind the scenes that are unrecognizable,
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  which is a really important thing and that and that's not
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  just in work that's across the board.
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  There are things that are unrecognizable even in your
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  household. How many times anybody who has
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  children will know how many times kids are like, hey, how
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  come we don't have this in the refrigerator?
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  Or how come we don't have. I don't my clothes aren't clean
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  and blah blah blah because somebody is doing laundry in the
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  house and it goes unnoticed or somebody's buying food and just
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  constantly stalking the house and it goes unnoticed.
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  So this level of self assessment is very, very hard.
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  For people and my big thing with this is you cannot self assess
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  yourself if you are not tracking yourself and why is this all
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  important to you guys because I'm telling you right now, we
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  are almost halfway through this year.
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  We're 141 days into the year right now.
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  I know that because of the podcast and if if you are not on
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  track to be doing the things that you want to be doing and
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  getting to the place, you Want to be getting yourself reading
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  the number of books taking the number of vacations.
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  It doesn't matter what the subject is, if you are not
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  progressing, then nine times out of ten, a key component of that
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  is, you are not tracking your wins and you're not seeing where
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  you need to course-correct. So, for instance, every day I've
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  told you guys this before but I will repeat it just to make sure
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  I write down in a journal. Not exactly what I accomplished.
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  Not my calendar of what I'm supposed to be doing.
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  I write it in a journal because I want to know every day, I want
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  to be able to go back. It's a daily planner Journal.
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  I have happened to love passion planners, so it's a passion
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  planner. And it is for me, it is the
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  Saving Grace because I can look back, and I can say, oh, wait,
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  look what I did. Okay.
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  Yeah. So if somebody said to me, can
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  you self assess yourself and tell us what, you know, where
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  you think your Expectations where you think you're exceeding
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  expectations. Any of that, I could do it in a
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  heartbeat and I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel.
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  I wouldn't have to think about it and more importantly, I
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  wouldn't have to do it from a place of resentment or
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  irritation or anything else. I could just do it, it would
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  just be matters of fact at that point in time because I even
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  color code stuff. So I will tell you if you are
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  not tracking this stuff and we are 141 days into the year.
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  I highly suggest you do because When we get through this halfway
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  point of the year, then people start to go.
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  Oh wow, Summer's here. And so I'm going to take this
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  off but I didn't get this done better than Tada.
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  So before summer gets here, before you want to spend time,
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  doing, whatever it is that you do in the summer, please do
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  yourself this gift, give yourself this gift of going out
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  and starting this process really, give yourself a
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  self-assessment now, so that you can go back and you can say with
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  confidence, you know it, because if somebody else I was doing it
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  and this is a game that I would love for you guys to play with
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  yourself. Say okay, I'm going to do it for
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  myself. I'm going to give myself the
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  self-assessment and then if someone else was watching me,
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  what would they think? Because if you're self-employed,
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  if you're a business owner, you have to ask the questions and
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  you have to do it even though someone's not there.
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  Now, again, these only work when you're being really honest with
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  yourself. Because as I was telling you, my
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  client was struggling to make sure that this person was able
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  to get the feedback that they needed to.
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  To get in order to jump to the next level and that meant some
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  critical things. So, you know, don't don't be
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  disrupted by having to do something like that.
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  Just be like, okay, what are the things I need to convey?
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  And how honestly, can I convey them through the framework?
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  That this person can hear it. So, keep all of that in mind.
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  Do a self-assessment for yourself.
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  If you are off track, get your heinie back on track because
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  you're not going to feel good going into the summer know when
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  you blew off a bunch of stuff. Of me.
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  I'm doing the same thing right now with myself, making sure
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  that by that time, that the end of the month comes, I have a
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  bunch of stuff done and by the end of June, I have even more.
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  I have a huge thing coming up by the end of June.
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  So I am on task. So do yourself the favor.
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  Catch yourself ahead of time. All right?
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  My friends little long today, but I hope it was helpful and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. I hope you all have a blessed
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  day. Bye.