Posted on Jan 4, 2017
Is your rater supposed to write your evaluation?
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Fact: Your rater is supposed to write your evaluation. Right? Or is that fiction? What are your thoughts and experiences?
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Well it's a double edged sword so to speak. At least in the Air Force your rater is suppose to be the one to write it, but who knows better of what you have done then you. I have heard some raters say to the ratee "I'm trying to teach you how to be a good evaluation writer for when you have peers" I have also heard from some ratee's that they feel as though their rater can't write for crap and would rather write it themselves.
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Tell ya the truth, last 12 years of my career I usually ended up writing my own.
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Your performance (actions) actually write your evaluation, your rater simply documents what you've done along with identifying your potential for future service & promotion. Many leaders (at all levels) fail their people by simply not knowing their people or not taking the time to know what they are doing/what they are supposed to be doing and holding them to the standards!
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Lt Col Jim Coe
CSM Michael J. Uhlig -- I guarantee I can make an average Soldier sound exceptional regardless of actual performance and vice-a-versa. Your first sentence is true only if leadership fixes the problem you note in your second sentence.
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Your Rater does your Eval, you do your support form. So, in reality....you BOTH write it.
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There are the way things are supposed to be and the way things are. More often than not, the rate writes their own in its entirety. With that being said, the rated person needs to provide comments and inputs.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
i can't speak for the Army but in My experience In the Air Force the rater wrote the evaluation, no one else. Its His job to do so ! to do otherwise sounds like a rater not only taking the easy way out by having someone else do His work but it devalues even bothering with the rating system in My opinion. Perhaps its also an indication He doesn't have the backbone to evaluate His people and maybe shouldn't be a Supervisor or Manager. He can still ask for information He may not be aware of by the person being rated but its still His job to write the evaluation.
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It’s in the regulation. I don’t see how it’s up for debate. If you appeal to the SR and/or SR’s next level NCO/CSM or whenever it is, the rater/SR will have a difficult time explaining why the subordinate is in charge of the evaluation.
If you write it, then I’d say your in charge of it.
When the CSM asked me where SFC’s eval was, my answers were:
- In your queue
- In my queue
- In the signature process
- I’m late, this is why, update my support form if necessary
Not- ‘let me ask the SFC.’
If you write it, then I’d say your in charge of it.
When the CSM asked me where SFC’s eval was, my answers were:
- In your queue
- In my queue
- In the signature process
- I’m late, this is why, update my support form if necessary
Not- ‘let me ask the SFC.’
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Both in the Military and in the Civilian workplace, I've always provided input on my evaluations. Depending on your rater's writing ability (and workload) some, most or all of what you wrote, may be used.
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When I was a PSG, I wrote it and gave it to the LT to sign. No way was I going to place my career in a butterbar's hands. But really our soldier's actions wrote our NCOER
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