Guide to Getting the Most out of Your Performance Review: Preparation 

• Allow yourself sufficient time to prepare for the meeting.
• Gather evidence of your performance against business and personal objectives in the year to date.
• Focus on your performance since the last annual review not just on recent events.
• Consider your achievements over the past year and key issues that have arisen.
• Assess your performance against your objectives. Where have you over-achieved? What skills do you have that helped you to over-achieve.
• If you haven’t achieved an objective review what happened – think about what you could have done differently to ensure you achieved your goal.
• Think about what you found easy and enjoyable. Which aspects of your job do you like and why?
• Consider what you found difficult and where you struggled. What aspects of your job do you not like and why/
• Be honest with yourself about your strengths and areas for improvement.

Think about the objectives you would like to agree for the coming year.
Make notes for using in the meeting.


© Derian Keyms Consulting Ltd 2002

Performance Review Briefing
At this briefing your manager will have explained that the purpose of the review is to discuss and agree the level of performance that you have been achieved this year and to set objectives and build a development plan for the coming year.

They will also have issued you with theses guidelines and a Performance Review form and stressed the importance of preparation.

Preparation 

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