Words to help you write better reviews
2 min readDec 8, 2023
Whether its your own self review or a review of someone else, its always a challenge not to write something that feels like its falling flat. Make your accomplishments sound like the hard work they are with some of these words.
One small tip: use these carefully, they can be a little much if you stuff too many into a review at once.
Leadership words:
- Chaired
- Modeled
- Principal
- Coached
- Mentored
- Drove
- Guided
- Persuaded
- Instructed
Creation words:
- Composed
- Produced
- Executed
- Devised
- Conceived
- Defined
- Derived
- Invented
Management words:
- Coordinated
- Headed
- Organized
- Oversaw
- Planned
- Presided
- Arranged
- Orchestrated
This is not by any means an exhaustive list. Please feel free to share more and save these for future use.
Example transformation of some of my year end review from 2019 (pre awesome words list, obviously)
Before:
- Release of chat 2.0 and web messaging (prior to joining architecture FT)
- Improving performance testing requests intake process & roll out to teams
- PCF Scaling Guidelines released
- Continued work with teams on performance testing
- Continued work with other architects on planning for performance success
- Grew technological understanding of AWS and Mulesoft
After:
- Coordinated and managed the release of chat 2.0 and the web messaging to production
- Devised an improved intake process for performance testing requests & instructed the appdev teams on the new process
- Defined PCF Scaling Guidelines and coached teams on why they were important
- Worked with appdev teams on performance testing
- Collaborated with other architects on planning for performance success
- Grew technological understanding of AWS and Mulesoft
