Generally speaking, I would think everyone who is employee is evaluated at some point on their performance.\u00a0 Most of us have nervously and, hopefully, eagerly awaited the trip to the boss\u2019 office so that he or she can assess your past year\u2019s work, ask for comments, offer you suggestions to improve, and set the goals for the upcoming year. Once you hear that there ACTUALLY are goals for the next twelve months, you are then pretty much assured that your job is safe until the next evaluation.\u00a0 Hopefully you exit the office with a smile on your face.<\/p>\n
But what if you were evaluated every day you came to work?\u00a0 What if each single, solitary decision you made throughout the work day was rated by an observer?\u00a0 What if your ability to continue working at your current level was dependent upon the watchful eye and determined by an outside judge?\u00a0\u00a0 What if bystanders were allowed to boo or cheer your decisions to try and influence the evaluator?\u00a0 You probably believe none of this could possibly happen.\u00a0 Well, you are wrong.<\/p>\n
High school basketball officials work under the stipulations listed above throughout the regular season, the district playoffs, and the state playoffs.\u00a0 Since we are currently in the state playoffs, let me describe the system at work.\u00a0 A game evaluator, normally a retired official who over the years has literally earned his stripes and credibility, will be assigned a game.\u00a0 Every state playoff game has one.<\/p>\n
Once the game begins, every whistle, every stoppage, every potential whistle, every rule interpretation, and every situation is judged.\u00a0 The categories are familiar to a basketball fan \u2013 foul, violation, held ball, technical, no call.\u00a0 Accuracy is described as follows: Correct Call, Incorrect Call, No-call Correct, No-call Incorrect.\u00a0 There are usually @ 50 decisions assessed in every game, sometimes many more, sometimes less.<\/p>\n
After the contest ends, there is a post-game assessment between the officials and the evaluator.\u00a0 In a generalized fashion, the evaluator discusses situations, offers helpful tools to improve performance based on years of experience, and jointly analyzes the entire game.\u00a0 No individual is ever called out in front of his peers. It is not adversarial in any way.<\/p>\n
The evaluation is then sent to the state with thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of a given crew.\u00a0 The PIAA then decides future assignments based on the evaluations.<\/p>\n
The entire process has one goal in mind \u2013 improve the quality of the men and women who are working the games. And what fan does not want that?<\/p>\n
There may be a lesson to be learned here for all of us.\u00a0 I certainly am not advocating that someone follows us around all day, but it would not hurt if we all did some self-evaluation every now and then of all aspects of our lives.\u00a0 If we could move closer to improving our \u201ccorrect calls\u201d and decreasing the \u201cincorrect calls\u201d, we would all benefit.\u00a0 Try it.<\/p>\n
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