Employee: Ed Champion

Strong Points

• Flexible with hours and volunteers for evening and daytime overtime when available
• Recently demonstrated a willingness to help others in the office
• Willing to take criticism and improve
• Knows WP and Excel well
• Tasks are completed timely
• Good at staying in contact with attorneys

Points for Improvement

• Interactions with some people are defensive and prickly; needs to work on improving working relationships
• Pay better attention to detail, proofread work, do filing promptly
• Prioritize and delegate when appropriate
• Needs to focus on ______ work between 9 and 5:30
• Interrupts without showing courtesy to those in conversation
• Slow down and listen to instructions
• Show initiation in taking on new assignments or projects

Goals

• Keep work to a consistent level throughout the year
• Improve communications skills and relationships

Overall Performance Results: Meets Expectations

These are all good points for improvement, some of them still applicable. But at the risk of coming across as “defensive and prickly,” I should observe that my “defensive and prickly” interactions largely involved one attorney who took a good deal of his time to speak to me in a condescending tone about tasks that any well-trained monkey could perform. He did this over and over because his life was miserable, and he wanted to make other lives miserable. (And he did. But he has not yet made partner.) This may likewise explain the point suggesting that I needed to “slow down and listen to instructions.”