How do you keep track of your accomplishments throughout the year?

At my firm, employees need to submit self evaluations at end of year and detail their successes/failures during the year. The problem is, by the time the end of the year rolls around, most people have a hard time remembering everything.

I wanted to pick people's brains on here and ask how you keep track of such things at your job.

I've been tasked with creating a system that tracks this on a larger scale so senior management can report to the board what their groups accomplished during year. So any input would be of great help to me. Thanks!

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I literally keep a document on Google Drive that lists out every project I work on and what I did on each one. Also great for when resume revision time rolls around. From time to time I also ask my boss(es) for informal valuations and make note of that in my document so I don't forget what they said. Keep in mind I've also been clinically diagnosed with OCD, so that might have something to do with it.

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I literally keep a document on Google Drive that lists out every project I work on and what I did on each one. Also great for when resume revision time rolls around. From time to time I also ask my boss(es) for informal valuations and make note of that in my document so I don't forget what they said. Keep in mind I've also been clinically diagnosed with OCD, so that might have something to do with it.

This is on point. Many (most) senior people forget what goes on or don't know what everyone is doing all the time. Really a smart idea to self-track so you can hit them with your activites come year end.

 

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