Attention corporate achievers:

Have you ever stayed awake thinking about your last performance review?

You're not alone.  In today's competitive marketplace, success bring risk along with reward.

You've been successful. You've cliimbed a few rungs of the corporate ladder. And with each move,  you become a bigger, more visible target.

And one day you get a review that's not what you expected. You worked hard. You did a great job. And out of nowhere, you're "average."  Or even "needs improvement."

You're boiling mad.  You want to respond. Hey, you feel you need to respond.  So you look around for help.

• Your career counselor tells you to be positive and constructive (whatever that means).
  
  
• Your college classmate (who just made partner at his law firm) tells you to hire the toughest lawyer you can find.
  
  
• And then your cousin's best friend's neighbor's ex-wife chimes in with, "I would just quit. Better to starve than to put up with such a company!"
  

Forget everything you've heard about performance reviews.

• They're not always fair.
  
  
• Sometimes they have an agenda.
  
  
• Your immediate impulse -- file a rebuttal -- may be the worst thing you can do (or may be absolutely essential).

The good news is that you can start sleeping again.

You gain confidence. Once you understand how performance reviews really work, you can take charge of your career the way you always  have.  You don't have to give up and turn your review over to random chance. 

You gain more time to sleep because you're not wasting time seeking answers to the wrong questions.    

That's why I decided to write this book.  In fact, I began writing SURVIVE YOUR PERFORMANCE REVIEW when "Charlene" sent me a frantic email.  She wanted to write a rebuttal to a performance review.  Should she write 1 page or 2 pages? Should she write her rebuttal before or after meeting with her manager?

If she had SURVIVE YOUR PERFORMANCE REVIEW available, she would know she's asking the wrong questions. She needed to focus on "What does this mean?" And she needed techniques to answer that question. 

Ready to act? Buy now and get your career on track to your dream destination.

As a former counselor with a nonprofit career consulting agency, I think Surviving Your Performance Review is an extremely valuable resource for anyone who gets reviews at work. The advice to "hang out your antennae" and understand your workplace culture just might save someone's career. In fact, I recommend that everyone read it before starting a new round of reviews this year. Gina Odell, Syracuse, NY

 

About the author

Cathy Goodwin, MBA, Ph.D., is an author and career consultant, specializing in topics of career and life transition. Her book, Making the Big Move: How to transform relocation into a creative life transition (New Harbinger 1999), has received critical praise.

Dr. Goodwin has been featured as a career and life transitions expert guest on several talk shows, including KQED San Francisco, and the Matt and Ramona show. She's been interviewed  for articles appearing in the Denver Post, Billings (MT) Gazette, Boardroom, Parents Express, USA Today Online, School Foodservice & Nutrition, Chicago Tribune Syndicate, and more.  Her article "Relocation as Identity Change" can be found in the best-selling 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do.

Type "Cathy Goodwin" into any search engine. Her articles have appeared in hundreds of newsletters and have been translated into several foreign languages.

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You will discover

• what a performance review will not deliver (so you'll avoid embarrassment from asking inappropriate questions)
  
  
• how to prepare for your first review before you start the job (so you'll avoid costly detours in your first year)
  
  
• three questions to help you start tapping into your company's hidden agenda
  
  
• how to interpret nonverbal feedback (so you won't be blind-sided on review day)
  
  
• how to document your accomplishments (so you'll get recognition for even your fuzziest outcomes)
  
  
• how to recognize red flags in your company environment (so you'll be proactive during your review)
  
  
• when writing a rebuttal can actually hurt your career more than the bad review
  
  
• when you absolutely, positively must write a rebuttal to a performance review
  
  
• how to seek help from qualified resources (so you won't make a bad situation worse)
  
  
• how to recognize signals that your job really is in danger (so you won't panic when everything is really going okay)

...and a whole lot more.

SURVIVE YOUR PERFORMANCE REVIEW was written based on dozens of conversations and sessions with corporate clients. You'll discover ideas drawn from the world of corporate reality, not from abstract theory, textbooks or abnormal psychology.

Download your Report today and begin to take charge of your corporate career, even if your performance review isn't due for several months.  You'll feel more confident and begin to see new options immediately.