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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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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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Career Necessity: Key Accomplishments List (Free Template Provided)

Eat Your Career

Download my free Key Accomplishments List template here >> One of my favorite career development tools (and one I recommend on an almost daily basis) is the Key Accomplishments List. Or you can create a Word document and simply add to it each time you do this exercise. How to Use Your Key Accomplishments List.

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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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Stress free ways to ask for a Promotion

Career Advancement

Bob scheduled a meeting to discuss his performance and his future role with the company. He decided to make a short document of his achievements. When he sat down in the boss’s office he first asked the boss his views on Bob’s performance. He left the document with his boss. So he decided to approach his boss.

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Get Promoted at Work | Your 10-Point Plan

Career Advancement

He recently had a very positive performance review in which he’d voiced his ability to handle greater responsibility. Ask your boss these questions: Why kind of data or information can I provide to document my progress? Keep a log of your accomplishments. Oren Etzioni. His boss had agreed. How does the promotion process work?