The reflection
The things I said I'd finish, I finished.
I was visibly not the most competent person in the room, and stayed in it.
I was counting down to the end of the day.
Twenty minutes on how the last six weeks actually went.
Twenty-four questions. You get the results. Nobody else does.
Most of what gets measured at work is output — what was produced, what was delivered, whether the number was hit. That tells you whether the work happened. It doesn't tell you much about what the work has been like.
This looks at three things.
Performance
Did the work get done, and can you point to it.
Learning
Did you get more capable, or only busier.
Enjoyment
Was any of it good to be inside of.
The questions ask about what happened, not about how you'd describe yourself. At the end you'll see where your answers came out, which specific items came out lowest, and how that compares to how you'd have described the period yourself.
It won't tell you what any of that means. There's no type, no score against a norm, and no advice. It shows you where to look. What you make of it is yours.
Free. About twenty minutes. Your results are private — not shared with your employer, your manager, or anyone else.
Where the three come from
Timothy Gallwey began this work with athletes in the 1970s and spent the decades after applying it inside organizations. His observation was that performance is not produced by effort alone. It rests on two other things — whether a person is still learning, and whether they're absorbed in what they're doing — and it holds up only as long as those do.
Most organizations measure only the first. Performance is funded and reported. Learning is talked about and budgeted late. Enjoyment sounds like something that belongs outside of work, so it gets treated as a reward for the other two rather than a condition of them.
The argument runs the other way. People who sustain high performance across decades are almost always still learning something and still absorbed in some part of the work itself. Take those away and performance holds for a while on discipline alone, and then it doesn't.
If the word enjoyment made you uncomfortable, that's worth noticing too.