Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you to a
career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I'm going to teach you my
five steps on how to prepare for a one-on-one meeting with your manager or
boss especially if it's a performance review meeting and you're wanting to
request either a salary increase a promotion or a special project to work
on
now as a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job offers and if this is something that
you're interested in working with me one on one I can give you details about that
at the end of this video now when it comes to a performance meeting with your
boss or manager there are several things that you need to be aware of before the
meeting during the meeting and after the meeting so here are the things tip
number one before the meeting prepare your value and accomplishments stories
ahead of time in order to convince your boss or manager that you are a strong
performer at your work and that you deserve whatever it is that you plan to
request of them you need to have clear quantifiable achievements to be able to
articulate to your manager in the meeting and so to help you with this
process some questions that you can ask yourself involve what have I done in the
last year or six months that have been beyond my typical daily duties and tasks
then ask yourself what was the situation surrounding those events what was the
problem or issue that people were having to deal with how were people in the
company feeling about this situation including yourself then ask yourself
what action steps did I take and don't be overly detailed talk about it from a
high-level perspective what were the key phases or the key steps that you
implemented and then finally ask yourself what were the results be clear
hopefully they're quantifiable results that actually show a vast difference
from the situation before to what you ended up helping to achieve tip number
two before the meeting is to make sure that you are clear on what you plan to
request now this is pretty obvious but if you plan to ask for a raise or you
think you deserve a promotion or you want to ask for a vacation or you want
to ask to work on an important project just be clear about whatever that thing
is that you want to request obviously before you go into the meeting now let's
get into the steps that you'll do during the meeting step number one listen to
what your boss or manager has to say generally they'll start off the meeting
with an agenda or purpose of what they want to discuss with you so don't be the
first to speak let he or she say they've planned to say and you can just
sit back and listen now step number two is to assess whether it's the right time
to move forward with your request or stop to ask for constructive criticism
where some professionals go wrong in these performance reviews is that they
have a complete opposite perception of their own performance compared to what
their manager has of them depending on their personality for some of you
professionals either you think that you're doing way better than what your
manager is perceiving you to be or you feel that you're doing way worse than
what your manager perceives you to be doing now depending on whether the
feedback is positive or negative you want to adjust your game plan
accordingly if your boss or manager had nothing but good things to say about you
and gave you a great review then you can proceed to step number three which is to
articulate your value and accomplishments now if you just got a
negative performance review then you want to pause for a second and you want
to ask your boss to explain and give specific examples or circumstances that
prove what they're saying and that justify your performance review and this
isn't a time to argue it's a time to listen intently and even take notes if
you can so here's the thing if you are in a performance review meeting and
you're getting negative feedback from your manager then instead of making your
request which you had planned to initially you want to put that on hold
and instead be able to walk away from the meeting with a clear plan of action
ask your manager to provide you with his or her expectations for what they want
of you over the next six months for example and make sure that you
understand exactly what those objectives are what you need to do to achieve those
objectives or exceed those expectations so that you can get your performance
back to a level that is positive so that then at that point in time you can make
your request now for those of you who've gotten positive performance reviews then
step number three is to articulate your value and accomplishments so you'll
start out by saying something along the lines of as you know over the last year
or X number of months I've been able to demonstrate my value and accomplished
several achievements that have been above and beyond my role and from there
go into your exam so start describing the specific
instances where you have gone above and beyond the situation the action and the
results from those make sure that your brief and concise and really only bring
about the accomplishments that are the most important so don't go overboard and
start talking about more than four or five accomplishments in a row and
finally step number four make your request you'll then say as a result of
the value that I've been able to demonstrate to the team and the company
I'd like to request link and state your request there then the next thing you
want to do is be silent just look them in the face with a pleasant expression
on your face and see how your boss or manager responds and then after that
step number five is to ask for next steps and their expectations of you so
your boss will likely have said okay well let me get back to you on that and
then your response will be okay so can we talk about next steps and
expectations for the future you want to leave the meeting with clear
expectations of what your boss or manager has for you for the near future
so do you don't want to leave the meeting without having an understanding
of what those are that way in order to maintain your level of performance
you'll be able to create goals and targets for yourself that match to the
expectations of what your boss requires of you also you want it ask them for the
time frame for when they're gonna get back to you on your request just so that
you have that in mind and that you can hold them accountable to to make sure
that they get back to you after the meeting you want to do a few things one
thing is to send a follow-up email detailing the items that were discussed
in the meeting and thanking your manager for their time you can start it off by
saying thanks for meeting with me today and for providing my performance review
I plan to implement the steps and achieve the targets we discussed and I
look forward to hearing confirmation for my request so there you have it those
are my tips and steps on how to prepare for a performance review meeting with
your boss or manager now if you're someone who's been on this path of
searching for a new position you want to make a career change you've been looking
for awhile but you just haven't had much luck and you're ready to get one-on-one
professional help then feel free to reach out to me head on over to my
website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired
read through the page fill out the application form and if we feel that
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