I used to love mid-December when I served as president of the Regional Airline Association.
Next year’s budget was put to bed and work emails slowed to a trickle. Ricardo, our mail guy, would BS longer about his beloved Dallas Cowboys as he unloaded a cart full of cookies, fruit baskets and neat swag from appreciative members for us to share in the office. There were also plenty of holiday parties and catch-up lunches with old pals.
It was a perfect time except for one thing: those dreaded annual employee performance evaluations.
Filling out those mind-of-their-own online personnel forms was the easier part – a good exercise to reflect upon how your colleagues contributed to the team’s success and how you could be a better coach.