Assignment 1

You will create a self-evaluation of your performance within your group over the first eight weeks of the course. This is not fictional, so please remember not to evaluate your company. You will also not evaluate the course, or your performance within the course. Instead, you are performing an actual evaluation of yourself as a member of your group over the first eight weeks of the semester. You should evaluate yourself based on the criteria below noted in Assignment #2:

Prepare your self-evaluation by doing the following:

1) Create a list of your responsibilities that you have a) set for yourself within your group, and b) the responsibilities placed upon you by your fellow group members. You will evaluate yourself based on these.

2) Share your progress over the eight-week period.

3) Indicate accomplishments you believe you've made within your group, i.e., because of your efforts, your group's grade improved by one full letter, or because of your efforts, your group's document designs have improved, or because of you, your group now proofreads the group's finished product more thoroughly.

4) List areas where you believe you could have done more, or performed better.

After you've completed these, proceed to the instructions below:

Instructions:

1) Place your name at the top center of the page.

2) Underneath your name, type "Self-Evaluation."

3) Build a Likert-scale survey based on whatever criteria (see assessment criteria below) your group decides to self-evaluate. Your self-evaluation assessment criteria should be the same as your group members'.

4) Complete the evaluation for the person you intend to review.

5) After each question where you provide a rating, include an area for brief, written comments that help to further explain your assessment. This is typically only 1-2 sentences.

6) At the end of your report, preferably on the second page, provide overall recommendations for yourself. In other words, what are you doing well and how do you think you could improve as a group member going forward in the second half of the course? This should be brief and no more than a paragraph.

Length: No more than two pages.

Design: Up to you. There is no specific design frame for this type of document, but your group's format should remain consistent, i.e. your design doesn't have to look like the entire class', but each group member should use a report style that looks like each other's.

Style: Short report format.

Assignment 2

You will evaluate ONE (and only one) other group member that provides that person with an objective snapshot of their performance as a group member over the first eight weeks of the semester. Please remember you are not evaluating your company, nor are you evaluating the course, or their performance within the course. Instead, you are evaluating one other member of your group with regard to what working with them has been like. Who in your group you choose to evaluate is a decision you either must make together, or you may defer that responsibility to your current manager. You should evaluate your colleague based on the criteria below that you believe is relevant for your particular group. In other words, you, as a group, together, decide which points of criteria below you will use to evaluate each other, and each evaluation per group should be consistent in both questions as well as in document design. There is no maximum on how many points of criteria you should evaluate, but you must choose a minimum of at least five (see assessment criteria below).

Instructions:

1) Place your name at the top left

2) Underneath your name, type "Performance Evaluation of _____________" and place the person's name in the blank.

3) Build a Likert scale survey based on whatever criteria above your group has decided to evaluate.

4) Complete the evaluation for the person you intend to review.

5) After each question where you provide a rating, include an area for brief, written comments that help to further explain your assessment. This is typically only 1-2 sentences.

6) At the end of your report, preferably on the second page, provide overall recommendations for the person you evaluated. In other words, what are they doing well and how do you think they could improve as a group member going forward in the second half of the course? This should be brief and no more than a paragraph.

Length: No more than two pages.

Design: Up to you. There is no specific design for this type of document, and the evaluation criteria you use is entirely at the discretion of your group; however, your questions within your group must be the same and your design format should also be the same, i.e. you can't evaluate one group member on one set of criteria and another group member on something else; all three students should have a document that is designed in the same format.

Style: Short report format

Assessment Criteria

Choose from at least five below for both your self-evaluation and peer evaluation. You may choose additional criteria if you wish, or create your own criteria to assess):

A) Attendance and punctuality (not to class, but perhaps to meetings on or off campus, or even online)

B) Dependability (has your colleague always come through? always did what was necessary for the group? trustworthy?)

C) Appearance (optional, of course, but certainly not necessary or even encouraged to evaluate)

D) Productivity (what have they produced? what do you think of what they've produced?)

E) Work quality (do you believe the quality of their work rises to your professional expectations?)

F) Work consistency (is there work always of high quality, or does it vary from project to project?)

G) Knowledge of job (in this case, knowledge of your expectations of them as a group member)

H) Work skills (in this case, do they seem to be grasping the materials and course expectations to your level of standards?)

I) Managerial skills (this will only apply to those who are managing now, or managed in the first five weeks).

J) Attitude (are you, in general, working well with this person? pleasant? unpleasant? indifferent? lacking engagement?)

K) Cooperation (do you find that you work in harmony with each other? when you ask something of this person, does he/she respond appropriately?)

L) Enthusiasm (how does your colleague approach each project on both a personal and professional level?)

M) Initiative (is this person a leader or a follower? would you encourage them to take the reigns a little bit more? do they always take charge?)

N) Judgment (do you find your colleague has made good decisions that were in the best interest of your group's work?)