How to succeed in your annual performance review
13 January 2009
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Your annual performance review is approaching? Prepare now! This meeting with your supervisor is neither a mere formality nor a "settling of accounts". On the contrary, it is a valuable opportunity to review the past year and discuss your future in the company.
Highlight your successes. Before meeting your supervisor, take the time to summarize, on paper, all the key elements of the past year. To help you carry out this self-assessment, ask the Human Resources department for the activity and skills grid for your position. List the missions accomplished and the projects successfully completed. Identify your successes, achievements and objectives achieved. Support each of your arguments with precise facts and figures. Don't get bogged down in details and only keep the most significant highlights of your work. Your notes will serve as a reminder on the day.
Explain your failures. The past year hasn't been easy… Don't ignore your failures and potential difficulties. Your supervisor will undoubtedly address these weak points in your career. Anticipate! Diagnose the problems, detail your explanations in writing and define the possible ways to avoid repetition. Your supervisor expects from you not excuses or sterile self-criticism, but constructive elements and frankness. An argued step back will be your best defense.
Express your aspirations. Do you want to follow training? Get a salary increase? A promotion? An internal change of department? New missions? Take advantage of the performance review to discuss your professional project with your manager. Confidently but without arrogance, present all the arguments that will convince him during the negotiation. This is the right time to talk about your professional future.
Adopt the right attitude. Total relaxation or unhealthy rigidity are to be avoided during this meeting. If your supervisor leads the performance review, you must also participate. Answering, arguing, commenting: only real prior preparation will allow you to transform this meeting into a constructive exchange. However, avoid interrupting or monopolizing the conversation. The annual interview is a time of mutual listening.
Posted on January 27, 2009
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Explain your failures. The past year hasn't been easy… Don't ignore your failures and potential difficulties. Your supervisor will undoubtedly address these weak points in your career. Anticipate! Diagnose the problems, detail your explanations in writing and define the possible ways to avoid repetition. Your supervisor expects from you not excuses or sterile self-criticism, but constructive elements and frankness. An argued step back will be your best defense.
Express your aspirations. Do you want to follow training? Get a salary increase? A promotion? An internal change of department? New missions? Take advantage of the performance review to discuss your professional project with your manager. Confidently but without arrogance, present all the arguments that will convince him during the negotiation. This is the right time to talk about your professional future.
Adopt the right attitude. Total relaxation or unhealthy rigidity are to be avoided during this meeting. If your supervisor leads the performance review, you must also participate. Answering, arguing, commenting: only real prior preparation will allow you to transform this meeting into a constructive exchange. However, avoid interrupting or monopolizing the conversation. The annual interview is a time of mutual listening.
Posted on January 27, 2009
emploi.france5.fr
