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7 Easy Steps to Rock Your End of Year Performance Review
How to get the grade you deserve
End of year performance reviews can be the bane of many of our lives. Thinking about them, prepping for them, writing them and attending them is torture for most people. Not to mention the anxiety generating grade at the end of it all.
For years, in my day job, I bribed people with sweets to make sure they completed on time as managing the performance review system was my responsibility. Chocolate fish always worked well.
During my wanderings around the office to chivy people along, I would get many a panicked request for help. From the Managing Directors to school leavers, most people found the performance review process a trial.
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Performance reviews are a mechanism to get leaders to talk to their team members about goals and development. Back in the day, performance reviews were on paper forms.
A good manager can do a performance review and manage goals on the back of an envelope but we are not all blessed with instinctive leadership skills. A formal process gives some guidance.
