Build an Achievement Collector for evidence-based self-evaluations
Mid- and end-of-year self-evaluations used to cost me a week or two of reconstructing a year of work from memory. I rarely recorded or remembered the “small things,” and I couldn’t easily explain how my daily work connected to our goals. People often forget their most impactful work months later, so I wanted continuous capture instead of annual reflection. I also wanted my work goals and development plan grounded in real evidence rather than guesswork. I built an “Achievement Collector” agent as a sub-agent of my Chief of Staff agent. When my Chief of Staff agent recognizes something important, it formats the accomplishment into an Achievement record, asks whether I want to record it, and sends it to the Achievement Collector agent. SharePoint is the system of record, with fields including Details, Business Impact, Key Insights, Related Goal, Significance, and a flag for accomplishments I’m especially proud of. A Power Automate flow lets me log an accomplishment conversationally instead of filling out a form. A Copilot Studio agent sits on top of the list and reads three work-goal documents—mine, my manager’s, and my director’s—so it can map each accomplishment up the chain. Its instructions tell it to prioritize what I’m proudest of, group work into themes, surface business impact, and never invent anything. The result is that my self-evaluation and goal-progress summaries are now queries against real records instead of writing projects. If you want to build one, start with the data-list fields: capturing impact and insight at the moment of the work is what makes everything downstream possible. The combination of my Chief of Staff agent and Achievement Collector has made work a lot more fun for me and turned me into a laser-focused employee. Step-by-step: 1. I created an “Achievement Collector” agent as a sub-agent of my Chief of Staff agent. 2. I configured the Chief of Staff agent to recognize important work, format it into an Achievement record, ask whether I want to save it, and send it to the Achievement Collector. 3. I created a SharePoint list as the system of record, with fields for Details, Business Impact, Key Insights, Related Goal, Significance, and a flag for accomplishments I’m especially proud of. 4. I used Power Automate to let me log accomplishments conversationally instead of filling out a form. 5. I placed a Copilot Studio agent over the SharePoint list and three work-goal documents: mine, my manager’s, and my director’s. 6. I instructed the Copilot Studio agent to map accomplishments up the goal hierarchy, prioritize what I’m proudest of, group work into themes, surface business impact, and never invent anything. 7. I now query the accumulated records when creating self-evaluations and goal-progress summaries instead of reconstructing my work from memory.