Do you use ChatGPT at work? For appraisals?

[Workshysharon]

It’s mid year appraisal time and I have to write 20 appraisals which I dread. I always end up spending the weekends and find it difficult to write 20 different appraisal essentially saying the same thing with some variety. Has anyone used ChatGPT at work and to write appraisals? I have never used it, but have just signed up hoping to save myself a lot of time.

Having said that, it was useful in re-writing a long narrative from a government document into bullet points and for turning a document written as questions into statements.

Both of those saved me time.

I suppose contrary to my visit report, these were not personal and not about something I had seen and needed to evidence using pertinent detail.

no-it's really obvious- particularly if anyone has read your normal writing. It's jarring and weird.

Then you're not using it correctly with the right prompts.

Its certainly very American. For references you can go from "Sharon is a thought leader of her time, shining bright as a beacon of success..." to "Sharon has led the team well this year" of you ask it to tone it down and be more British.

You can also train ChatGPT to write like you by feeding it examples of your writing. I use it a fair bit at work, it’s a real time saver.

@Eeyoreknowsall I know what you mean. But I'd see it is somewhat inauthentic, plus I quite enjoy writing about people!

No comments from me re using it for appraisal but I agree that the issue with AI is that most people don’t know how to use it. You simply,y can’t just ask it to do a task without any prompt.

You need to be extremely specific of the context (I am a manager working in a company in England. My company is specialising in setting up stands for festivals. I am working at this level in the company).
It’s also worth telling AI off (eg are you sure it’s the right way to say this?? It doesn’t sound English/it’s over the top etc…). And make it rewrite anything that sounds off.
Giving it examples of how you normally write and ask to do it in a similar format can help too.

I look at it as a template generator. Sometimes you need a starting point, other times you just need something refined.
It's the same with looking online for a template, using Grammarly or any other aid.
I agree many people don't know how to use it.

Some of us are criticizing it because we're aware of how ChatGPT is both used and misused in professional environments, and because we're aware that if you need to ask the question you probably don't have the training and competence to use ChatGPT well enough to pull this off at short notice. But it's a heads-up to get that training and experience in before next time.

100% yes

write out your bullet points and a summary of their performance, successes and challenges and where you want them to focus (or whatever elements you’d normally include) and then ask it to reword in a professional way including any actions required

People get their knickers in a twist but the best way to use AI is to take your own jumbled messy thoughts and have it turned into something considered, concise and professional in about 10th of the time it’d take you to do it.

i wrote all of my recent interview questions, presentation briefs, feedback and project documents using. CGPT. They are my ideas and summaries but I’m shite at making things sound cohesive so why wouldn’t I - also it helps move things along a lot quicker

I LOVE ai for this, not a day I don’t use it and praise those nerdy computer geeks for it

@Eeyoreknowsall or rather (some of)the people
who I know are using it and who are sending me stuff to read are not using it properly

Admittedly not the most representative sample

Ok so if OP is more capable than my team members then fair enough!