The end of a (financial or calendar!) year is a great time to reflect on what you’ve completed.
It helps you celebrate your achievements - big or small - and reflect on their impact.
Completing an Achievement Audit is one way you can reflect on your accomplishments.
It’s also helpful come performance review time (hello list of accomplishments!), or to share with people you love to practice saying those amazing accomplishments out loud and letting it reverberate in the world that your confidence is not solely a product of your imagination.
Another benefit? When it comes to crafting or updating your elevator pitch, you’ve got meaningful achievements ready to go.
Reflecting on what you have achieved in the last 12 months will astonish you. Here are helpful prompters for your Achievement Audit that we use in our Communication training:
What are you proud of completing, continuing on with, finishing, moving towards or away from, in the last 12 months? What achievements might you be able to capture?
What was the result? Was there an impact?
What did you learn as a result? What did it reveal?
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Achievements
What have been my achievements?
Thought starters:
What have been the most notable achievements for you?
Did you develop a new habit?
Have a tricky conversation?
Make a decision?
Complete a piece of work?
Impact
What has been the impact of these achievements?
Thought starters:
Calculate the impact.
Perhaps time has been saved?
A project has gone well?
Risks have been mitigated?
Relationships have been developed?
You are experiencing more / less of?
Your work/life shifted?
Learnings
What have I noticed as a result?
Thought starters:
You can do hard things.
Can do something when you put your mind to it.
You are resilient.
You’re able to be proud of yourself.
Share your Achievement Audit.
There is lots you can be proud of. Following this exercise, you might share your achievements, learnings and impacts:
On LinkedIn
With your boss
At the end of year meeting to celebrate
In a ‘kudos’ file to use at your next performance review