well....we all talk about the painful experience we had with the appraisal process....but one thing the bare truth is "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent".Guys, just think how much time you spent in upgrading yourself with new methodology, practices and tools; not much right bcoz you are busy sharpening the skills that you posses from the time you started your career (so, is it that you never deserved a promotion).Bull's eye we found the solution.....very simple and can be put in below steps: 1. Find out the weak area in your project/business/task. I am sure there are lot of them which were never looked upon due to lack of knowledge and expertise within the team over that area. 2. Yes, the "Eklavya way"--{not the movie (catch it on 16thFEB2007) but the Mahabharata tale} Just start learning about the weak area, gather information from any where and every where (this web world is best source) and upgrade your knowledge, make yourself skilled on it. And yes, this you have to do very silently (don't even tell this to your wife) and within fixed time line. (That you appraisal hungry people can very well estimate) 3. Once confident, start shooting your newly acquired skill to other employees through emails, memo and may be fax too. Start projecting yourself as master of the newly acquired skill and start the process of improving the weak area. 4. Take initiative and brain storm with other team members to come up with ideas on how to improve the weak area, mind you, here you have to use the knowledge you acquired to establish yourself as the master. 5. Once you see any idea working, dig deep into it and document every thing and propose the solution (give credit to the person who gave the idea) and its implementation. 6. No No don't stop you are the one who will take lead and implement the idea till it's in concrete shape. 7.Promote promote yourself as the one who made the WEAK area within the team so STRONG that it's now culminated to INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY and is making way for OTHER IMPROVEMENTS(mind you ,here is the stage for the next appraisal).
