How to turn your performance review into a ticket to the leadership promotion

Rebecca Muriuki

Nov '23 (edited) in Tuesday Tips 🔥

How to turn your next performance review into a ticket to the leadership promotion shortlist

📣 You can have the perfect year when it comes to your KPIs, and still have a horrible performance review

Especially if you’re overly focused on overdelivering and hoping that your efforts will not go unseen 😳

WHY? 👇🏽

Most of the time the decision-makers are too busy focusing on their own KPIs to be tracking down what you’ve been doing all year.

📌 So first {SAVE} & implement these tips ahead of your next performance review

1️⃣ Get Clear on what it is that you want, and don’t shy away from making your ambitions know

2️⃣ Know what your USP is. Why should you be the one to get promoted? Why should you be entrusted with leadership? Why should anyone follow you?

3️⃣ Practice articulating & selling your achievements in 3 powerful statements (yes I said SELL). You are selling a service, and one of the mistakes we make as WOC is to stop selling ourselves once we get the job. Don’t stop. Selling is how you create perception of VALUE. Delivering is how your give VALUE.

4️⃣ Identify your advocates & start nurturing those relationships (WAY ahead of performance review season). Make sure your advocates know what you want, what you’re capable of and what you’ve achieved. They will speak for you in the promotion review roundtables when you’re not in the room. Don’t rely on your boss alone to do this for you.

5️⃣ Prepare for your performance review like you’re preparing for an interview. This is the one chance you have to PITCH & SELL your leadership brand, so you might as well prepare for it!

Which tip will you be implementing in your next performance review?

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