The Single Biggest Mistake When Writing Your Performance Review

The single biggest mistake when writing your performance reviewThis is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesIt is that time of year when we all have to start thinking about   â€" and writing â€" our performance review. Strikes fear to the heart, doesn’t it?When I was a manager, I read hundreds of self-reviews that I used as a gauge for the employee’s perception of their performance. Out of those hundreds of reviews, one mistake stands out as the biggest mistake people made when writing their performance review.Here it is: they never showed their results in attaining their goals.Sounds simple doesn’t it? But what most people did when writing their performance revie w was assign a rating to a goal with no justification. Or they would provide expert assertions like “achieved this goal.” Seriously.Somehow, as a manager, that was supposed to be enough to get me to give that person a higher rating on their performance review. Not so much.Track your goal attainment for your performance reviewOne of the big reasons people never put their results of their goals in the review is because they never really tracked them over the course of the year. Half the time, we get the goals, think they make sense â€" and stick them in our desk drawer until it is time to do the performance review.Cubicle Warriors outsmart their competition by tracking their goal attainment each and every month. Tracking gives them the ability to know if they are going to make the goal or not. Whether they need additional resources to attain the goal â€" or make a case that the goal is unattainable under any circumstances.Ask yourself the hard questionSo if you are having a hard t ime filling out your performance review this year, ask yourself the hard question: how well did I track the results from the work on my goals?And if you signed up before midnight Eastern Time, this months free newsletter’s subject was the reasons you should write your self-review. You can sign up for future editions of the monthly newsletter on the sidebar on the site.This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rig hts reserved.