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Your review was graded before you walked in. The meeting is for the next one.

Ratings are calibrated with other managers weeks earlier. Arguing the grade spends the meeting on the past. Here is how to spend it on the number.

You asked for the one-page review prep. It is below, as the slides from the post, then the one move, then the tool the chart points at.

Slide 1 of 7: Your review was graded before you walked in. The meeting is for the next one.Slide 2 of 7: Ratings are calibrated with other managers weeks before the meeting, which is why arguing the grade rarely changes it.Slide 3 of 7: Four things to prepare before the meeting.Slide 4 of 7: How to open the pay part of the conversation.Slide 5 of 7: Your manager may not control pay, but they control the case that goes up, and you can write that case for them.Slide 6 of 7: Send the summary email the same day, and ask for a one-line reply confirming it.Slide 7 of 7: Save this for the week before your review.

Four things to prepare before the meeting.

  1. 01
    Three results from this year, each with a number.Revenue, hours saved, errors cut, a date hit.
  2. 02
    The range for your role.Postings in transparency states for the same title, or ask HR.
  3. 03
    Your number, above what you would accept, tied to one of the three results.
  4. 04
    A separate pay meeting, if the review form has no pay section.Ask for thirty minutes the following week.

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A high-yield savings account

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