Political Skills: 40 Useful Performance Feedback Phrases

Political Skills are abilities to build connections with other people to get things done within the formal and informal power structure of an organization.

Political Skills: Exceeds Expectations Phrases

• Demonstrates a strong power of judgment and great self-awareness when handling issues.
• Knows how to network and build beneficial partnerships with other people.
• Exhibits a strong sense of honesty, openness, and forthrightness when dealing with issues.
• Has great confidence and poise when engaging other people in any conversation.
• Shows an excellent ability to think critically and deeply before speaking.
• Logically communicates ideas and views that people can easily understand.
• Shows strong interpersonal skills and abilities that help to build a good rapport with people.
• Has strong powers of discernment and tends to be more perceptive to other people's behaviors.
• Shows willingness to reciprocate to other people to try to bring them closer.
• Shows great perceptive abilities of social situations and interactions and accurately interprets their behavior and that of others.

Political Skills: Meets Expectations Phrases

• Knows how well to convince others to buy into ideas and views.
• Demonstrates good emotional control while under stress, chaos or pressure.
• Engages in constructive arguments and is ready to stand by what is right.
• Always makes those around to feel important, cared for, and appreciated.
• Always willing to seek advice when need be and implements those that are beneficial.
• Always diplomatic and tries to find ways to resolve any form of impasses or conflict.
• Knows how to pool resources together for a good cause to benefit people.
• Knows how to capture people's attention when engaging them in any conversation.
• Takes matters into own hands and ensures that the people she leads are comfortable.
• Demonstrates good negotiations skills to arrive at beneficial and amicable agreements.

Political Skills: Needs Improvement Phrases

• Maintains relationships that are not built on openness and honesty.
• Openly criticizes those people who are around and does not appreciate them.
• Does not show any form of leadership skills and does not lead people in the right way.
• Always speaks fast and quick without even taking the time to think critically.
• Does not communicate in a very logical way and people find it had to understand what is being said.
• Does not know how to persuade people into buying into ideas and views.
• Is not willing to listen to what other people have to say and to incorporate new ideas.
• Does not build good and beneficial relationships with other people.
• Does not know how to keep a cool head when things get out of control.
• Displays poor crisis management skills and abilities and is not decisive when making decisions.

Political Skills: Self Evaluation Questions

• How well do you convince others to buy into your ideas and in what you believe?
• Do you rate your relationships beneficial or non-beneficial and explain why?
• How do you handle any form of crisis when it arises and how can you rate yourself in term of handling any crisis?
• How well do you express your ideas to people and how do they take it?
• Are you always alert to the social situations that happen around you and how do you deal with it?
• Do you normally get to assess and think critically of any issue before responding to it?
• Give an instance you made a hurried decision and what was the impact?
• How well do you give and receive constructive feedback from those around you?
• Do you undermine those who are around you or do you build and appreciate them?
• How well do you relate to people and what can you say you have done for them to deserve their backing?