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The Performance Review Prep Workbook
What You Did, What It Meant, and What You Want Next
The review is happening whether you're ready or not. This is how you get ready.
For the professional preparing for a performance review who wants to arrive knowing what they accomplished, why it mattered, and what they want next.
The Name It First Experience
The Performance Review Prep Workbook is for the professional who lets the work speak for itself — and watches a less accurate version of their performance become the one on record. Your Review Preparation Brief documents what you did, why it mattered, and what you want next, in the form that makes those answers actionable. The output is not what you hope your manager noticed. It is what you put on paper.
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Sample questions
- What do you want to communicate about where you want to go from here?
- What evidence supports what you're most proud of — what can you point to specifically?
- What do you want to develop in the next review period — and what support do you need to get there?
- What do you want your manager to understand about your work and your ambitions?
Research basis
Cruess and Cruess (professional identity formation) / London (performance management) / Schön (reflective practice) / Bandura (self-efficacy in professional contexts) / DeNisi and Murphy (performance appraisal research).
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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