Friday, February 25, 2011

Giving Negative Evaluations

I had to write a couple of negative comments on my annual evaluation of one of my department members.  I never handle criticisms well, and I don't think any of us in the department do.  (S)he didn't.

So I did what I've done before, negotiated.  If he would address the topics of my comments in her/his self-evaluation, I would back off from what I had written a bit---still list the factual component, but note that (s)he was addressing it.

I think I held my own better today than I have in the past.  Am I growing in integrity or just stubbornness?  More the latter I suspect.

Another year of being chair and I am done with this sort of thing, for a while anyway.

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