Riverside Park South, Memorial Day weekend 2010 – 36 by Ed Yourdon Psst…the end of June — one half of the year — is sneaking up on you. When is the last time you went into your desk drawer or headed over to your Excel spreadsheet and checked out your goals? You remember your goals,… Continue Reading
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The single best phrase to hear from your manager in your performance review
It is common wisdom that performance reviews are tough on both the manager and the employee. Reviewing a person’s work and offering constructive criticism is a job skill for managers and employees. So what do we do when it comes time to do the performance review? Performance reviews are all about the data Look at… Continue Reading
How to add goal attainment to your performance review — when you have no goals
There is a paradox when it comes to writing your performance review. You are supposed to write about your goal attainment, but your manager never gave you goals in the first place. Before you discount the paradox, consider that not having goals happens frequently, either through urgency or poor management practice. Consider, for example, a… Continue Reading
The single biggest mistake when writing your performance review
It is that time of year when we all have to start thinking about — and writing — 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… Continue Reading
The single most important action to take on your performance review
We’re coming up to performance review time and Cubicle Warriors know a secret about performance reviews that most employees ignore: your performance review rating is determined before your performance review is even written. That’s because the actual review is given to the employee long after initial ratings are determined, the ratings are compared to the… Continue Reading
The One Performance Review Fact You Can’t Tell Your Coworkers
Most of us can easily recognize that our performance reviews — and bonuses and raises — go through an entire budget process before our ratings are given to us at the end of the year. When there is only so much money to go around for salaries and bonuses, you can only have so many… Continue Reading
SMART Goals and Writing Your Performance Review
We are at that time, if you receive your performance review at the end of the year, where you will be expected to write your self-review on your performance. Yet looking at your SMART Goals now often reveals problems when it comes to getting your performance review right. It’s time to check out the goals… Continue Reading
The ultimate fatal mistake when starting your dream job
When we start our jobs, it’s easy to simply coast along with whatever the manager is giving you to do. But coasting doesn’t make for success in a new job, especially our dream job. Too often, people start new jobs and then are gone from them within eighteen months. Sure, sometimes we misjudge the fit… Continue Reading
Writing your performance review protects your interests
Performance reviews are emotion-filled events. It makes sense, of course, because no one likes criticism (and some shy away from praise), the review determines your pay raise and often the amount of your bonus. Throw in the possibility of promotion — or firing — and the emotional parts of the performance review makes perfect sense…. Continue Reading
Why being a Cubicle Warrior gives you an unfair advantage
When you pay attention to your work environment and have a good understanding of what you want out of a job, you get an unfair advantage over those who don’t. You put your career on offense while most others are playing defense. By learning and using Cubicle Warrior skills on the job: Cubicle Warriors get… Continue Reading