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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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The Power of Documentation in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

As a passionate writer, a naturally forgetful person, and a self-confessed control freak, I have always believed in the power of documentation, especially in the workplace. Documentation is a vital tool for enhancing productivity, accountability, transparency, and (most importantly) peace of mind.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Here’s what I learned from Laura about showcasing your accomplishments. I was proud, but exhausted.

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6 Biggest Time Wasters at Work and How to Fight Them

Career Advancement

Finding someone to help perform monotonous tasks, like data entry or account maintenance, can help keep you available for the necessary tasks. Online cloud storage allows you to organize and sort important documents, so they can be found in moments. A good practice to combat this is to create a to-do list for the day.

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Negotiating Salary and Benefits: Career Coaching Tips for Maximizing Compensation

Create Your Career Path

There are three basic career coaching tips for maximizing compensation when negotiating salary and benefits that we help our clients with whether they are preparing for a job interview or a performance review. To help with this, we recommend that all of our clients create an accomplishments document. 1 Preparation is key.

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Coaching to Create Agile Software Development Teams

International Coach Academy

Working software over comprehensive documentation: While documentation is still important, Agile values functional software that meets the needs of users. Sprint Review/Demo/Showcase: Which sprint goal(s) did the team accomplish, and how does it impact the overall product vision?

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How to Prepare for Your Year-End Review

Create Your Career Path

Performance reviews look different than they used to since the pandemic. Many companies are unsure how to measure performance while working remotely and may not have made a total shift in how they respond to new systems and protocols. How can you prepare for and show your worth at your next performance review? Be creative.