Effective evaluation of professional practice ensures as professionals we are continuing to maintain and improve our professional skillset. I have made use of three sources of evaluation in an effort to continue to evaluate my professional practice. The first of these has been a periodic review of my clinical notes and past work, reviewing it for accuracy and cross-checking it when available with the most recent scholarly articles. The second of these has been through the use of client feedback and evaluation forms, the main aim of these is to ensure I am meeting client needs, and goals we set out in the early stages of practice. The third evaluation technique I have employed has been having one of my fellow organisational psychologists in my team observing sessions or work and then providing feedback and discussion-based analysis after the observation session.

One instance in which this process proved particularly useful was in the development of a transition to retirement training package to deploy to our mature aged workforce. I had been drafting what this may look like and had a reliance on using web-based supports, to build community within this group and increase their access to services. I had overlooked that many of this group had limited technological literacy and that while the information was extensive would be somewhat out of reach for many of the cohorts. After a feedback session post-observation from one of my peers we kept the internet-based support as an accessible resource but however shifted the primary focus of the session to positive aging, a subset of positive psychology that would benefit the participants through this transition in their life and onwards into retirement.