Managing Performance

University measures my performance trough the effort and results achieved providing the requested assignment or attending exams, the value of how manage knowledge, the level of the knowledge itself and the way I present projects and test, are criteria used by the the university to evaluate my work. The lecturer illustrates me guidelines and methods to carry out the assignment requested and provides me enough source to increase my knowledge on the theme, tutors follow my involvement in this process, providing helpful suggestions and useful recommendations to clarify doubts and incomprehensions.

According to the Times article, mentors to be effectives have to possess certain qualities that can be useful to achieve results wanted; a mentor has to be experienced and successful, is important that he appear listening and skilled; on the emotional aspect they have to possess qualities such as empathy and sensibility, and even more important, they have to encourage a choice instead establishing it. General characteristics are usually more relevant than professional skills, that means that there is not the exigence of a mentor whose skills contemplate the same specific sector of the mentored. A mentor should encourage a person to challenge himself, should provide new skills, solve problems and help people to interact in a more efficient way in their job.

Mrs. Turazzi, my professor of chemistry during high school, can be considered my mentor, and for all that period she has been an example for my evolvement; she teach me how to perform better in order to answer correctly to requests, she improved my way to face an exams, assignment or test, providing me an helpful and detailed method of study; from her I learned the real meaning of effort and the relationship that links a good effort to expected results, I learned to set targets that have to be achievable but not in an easily way. Her manner were really rude and direct, she appear really interested in her student results but actually she was really careful to every aspect of a study process, knowing right motivations in order to increase our effort. She changed completely my way to face problems, encouraging me to continually challenging myself and constantly setting targets to achieve in order to improve my performances.

References:

-Mullins, L. (2007) Management and Organisational Behaviour. 8^th ed. Pearson Education Limited: Harlow

-TheTimes (2009) Business [online] Available from:http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article3778514.ece [Accessed 28 April 2010]