org/division/dept: Aquatics

location/based at: Sunningdale YMCA

name: Emily Gardner

position: Lifeguard/ Swim Instructor

year or period covered: January-April 2015

appraisal date & time: May 12, 2015, 2:00 p.m

time in present position: 4 months

appraisal venue: Sunningdale YMCA

length of service: 4 months

appraiser: Johanna Banks

A1 State your understanding of your main duties and responsibilities.

-Main duties while lifeguarding include watching every swimmer while on duty, being aware of all surroundings and
keeping head counts. While off duty, always being prepared for an emergency situation.
-Main duties while teaching swim lessons include helping kids become better swimmers while making sure they are
comfortable and safe with everything you ask them to do.

1. Have the past four months been good/bad/satisfactory or otherwise for you, and why?
-The past four months have been very good. I am becoming much more comfortable with the parent and tot
classes which I was nervous about to begin with. I have also become much more comfortable with my coworkers.

2. What do you consider to be your most important achievements of the past year?
-There was a girl in one of my Salamander classes who was scared to even jump into the water at the beginning of
the term, and by the end I helped her become comfortable with the water and ever stick her face in the water.

3. What do you like and dislike about working for this organisation?
-I like that the YMCA is so family oriented and I get to see lots of families having fun and playing together in the
pool every day.
-I dislike how hot it is in the pool area every day.
4. What elements of your job do you find most difficult?
-The most difficult thing to me is having to look over so many kids at a time. I find it difficult to keep everyone
focuses when there are six of them and one of me.

5. What elements of your job interest you the most, and least?
-What interests me the most is being able to watch kids have fun playing in the pool, while being safe of course.
-What interests me the least is having kids in my class who do not like to listen to anything I have to say and like
to do their own thing.

6. What do you consider to be your most important aims and tasks in the next year?
-My aim for next year is to get a better handle an how to handle kids when they are not interested in participating
in swim lessons. My aim is to figure out how to make them want to be at their swimming lessons and how to make
them want to learn and have fun.

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7. What action could be taken to improve your

performance in your current position by you, and your
boss?
-An action I could take to improve my performance is to do more planning in advance for my lessons and have
extra things that I am able to do if I end up having extra time at the end of my swim lessons.

8. What kind of work or job would you like to be doing in one/two/five years time?
-In one year I would like to still be working here. In two years I can probably see myself still working here, but will
probably have to pick between this job and my other job because I will hopefully be starting college. In 5 years I
hope to have graduated college and find a job in the Business field.

9. What sort of training/experiences would benefit you in the next year? Not just job-skills - also your natural
strengths and personal passions you'd like to develop - you and your work can benefit from these.
-Some training that I think would benefit everyone here is to have a crash course to freshen up on our lifeguard
and swim instructor skills. This way we will all be on top of the ball all the time.

A3 Score your own capability or knowledge in the following areas in terms of your current role requirements (1-3
= poor, 4-6 = satisfactory, 7-9 = good, 10 = excellent). If appropriate bring evidence with you to the appraisal to
support your assessment. The second section can be used if working towards new role requirements.

1. commercial judgement
2. product/technical knowledge
3. time management
4. planning, budgeting and forecasting
5. reporting and administration
6. communication skills
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delegation skills

8. IT/equipment/machinery skills
9. meeting deadlines/commitments
10. creativity
11. problem-solving and decision-making
12. team-working and developing others
13. energy, determination and work-rate
14. steadiness under pressure
15. leadership and integrity

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A4 In light of your current capabilities, your performance against past objectives, and your future personal

growth and/or job aspirations, what activities and tasks would you like to focus on during the next four months.
Again, also think of development and experiences outside of job skills - related to personal aims, fulfilment,
passions.
-The tasks I would like to focus on during the next four months include planning in advance for my lessons so that
I know exactly what I am going to be doing during each swimming lesson and there is never any time where I am
searching for something to do or where I have lots of extra time at the end of my lessons to fill with other things
other then playing games. I would also like to work on being able to handle troubled kids better. Often times if I
have one kid in my class who doesn't like what we are doing during the lesson and wants to do their own thing, all
of my attention turns to them in trying to bring them back and make them interested in what we are doing and
the the kids who actually want to be there and learn how to swim end up getting less attention.

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