Let Them Eat Cake: An Innovative Project to Teach the Valuable Skill of Self-Performance Appraisal

Keywords: Self-Assessment; Experiential Learning; Professional Development; Skill Mastery

Abstract: As performance management and performance reviews have matured, self-evaluations have become commonplace. As such, self-evaluation is an important skill, and with the right approach, it is a valuable exercise no matter what company you work for (Adams, T. 2019). Despite this, college student “evaluations” are still mired in the old “supervisor to employee” mode, which restricts students from developing one of their most important mastery skills - professional self-assessment. This interactive workshop will provide an experiential guide for helping students learn how to successfully perform self-assessments, and discuss the many, many benefits this projects brings to the professors and students.