๐ฐ Piece of cake performance review recipe
Hey overthinker, we have a request for you: donโt overthink your performance reviews. No need to rehearse a whole song and dance. Just go over the quarterโs greatest hits and skip the minutia.
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Donโt Overthink Your Performance Review
A performance review is nothing but a form. Just a bunch of silly little text boxes on a piece of paper that is filed away in HR where it canโt hurt you. Replace the scary with pragmatism.
Managers want to assess if their employees are adding to the bottom line. If youโre reading this newsletter and trying to rehearse your performance review, youโre already doing the most.
Itโs not about whether or not youโre eligible for a raise, itโs about whether youโre ineligible for one.
โHolland
Piece of cake performance review recipe
Ingredients
A heavy pour of clearly set quarterly goals to point back to.
Pretty much the whole container of a detailed report of your top and bottom performing outcomes.
Set aside a batch of fresh, yet achievable goals.
Directions
1. No Studying Allowed
Resist every urge to study for the meeting. Itโs a professional pulse check. Youโre a warm body whoโs in the building delivering top line items as prescribed in the job description. Thatโs a gold star right there.
2. It's an Open-Book Test
You give them the information they need to write a glowing review in those text boxes. Give them the language for you to win. This is a reporting meeting to report on your past performance.
3. Don't Ask for a Raise
I know we say this every other sentence, but this is probably the one time you gotta sit on that raise request. This meeting is all about the brass tacks of your day-to-day job function. Instead, nudge a raise request during 1:1โs.
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