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How do I prepare for a performance review?

Your review is coming and you know it will be judged on whatever they can remember, which is mostly the last six weeks.

◆ How this problem reads on the two dials
GuidanceKnowledge
Some coaching
More to learn
1:1 with AureliusWith others (a Pod)
You & the coach
Practise with peers
CRAFT. Recency bias is a documented behaviour of the person on the other side, and the pre-read is a knowable counter to it.
How the two dials adapt to you →
What’s really going on

Recency bias is the whole game, and it is beatable with one page sent a week early. There are also three questions worth asking in the room that most people never do.

🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
KnowledgePreparing a review so it is not a memory test
A moveNotice whether you are preparing to be judged or to negotiate. They lead to different documents.

What changes unlock by starting

  • You send evidence before they write the review.
  • You raise what went wrong first, on your own terms.
  • You leave with a written record of what was said.
One object, two jobs: a public answer to a real problem, and — the moment you start the chat — Aurelius’s live plan for your version of it.