WEBVTT - Write next year’s review now

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Yesterday we talked about how to nail an upcoming annual

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<v Speaker 1>performance review. Today's tip is more forward looking. You can

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<v Speaker 1>plan a great year by writing next year's performance review.

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<v Speaker 1>Now here's how this works. If your organization has an

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<v Speaker 1>annual performance review process, at some point in the next

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<v Speaker 1>few weeks, you'll sit down with your manager and figure

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<v Speaker 1>out the past year's successes and opportunities for growth or

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<v Speaker 1>whatever euphemism your organization uses. This serves its purpose but

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<v Speaker 1>has its limitations. Yesterday we talked about recency bias. Whatever

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<v Speaker 1>happens in October tends to matter more than what happens

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<v Speaker 1>in February. This is a great opportunity if you handle

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<v Speaker 1>October right. So that's what we focused on. Though it's

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<v Speaker 1>kind of unfortunate if your big wins happened early, but

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<v Speaker 1>most fundamentally, the past is done, gone over. If you

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<v Speaker 1>had some major disaster in July, the time to deal

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<v Speaker 1>with it and learn from it was in July, not

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<v Speaker 1>in November or December many months later. Likewise, if you

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<v Speaker 1>had some major success in May, that's the point to

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<v Speaker 1>analyze what worked, so you can benefit from that knowledge immediately.

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<v Speaker 1>We can't change the past once it's over. The future, however,

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<v Speaker 1>is not so constrained. It is wide open. By figuring

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<v Speaker 1>out what you'd like to say at next year's performance review,

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<v Speaker 1>you can shape the next year to increase the chances

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<v Speaker 1>of these victories coming to be. So today, try this exercise.

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<v Speaker 1>Pretend it is December. If you work for an organization

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<v Speaker 1>and you'd like to continue working there, you could pretend

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<v Speaker 1>you're sitting down with your manager. But you could also

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<v Speaker 1>just decide that your long term career is solely in

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<v Speaker 1>your purview. You're going to give yourself this performance review.

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<v Speaker 1>So it is December, and in this future vision, you

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<v Speaker 1>are beaming. It has been an amazing year for you professionally.

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<v Speaker 1>You are popping the champagne corks and celebrating. If this

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<v Speaker 1>were to be the case, what three to five things

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<v Speaker 1>would you have done to make the year so amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Think about what these three to five things might be

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<v Speaker 1>and write them down. Now it can really be whatever

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<v Speaker 1>you want. Maybe this is the year you score that promotion,

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<v Speaker 1>or finally hire an assistant who makes your life easier

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe this is the year you bring in a fantastic

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<v Speaker 1>client or launch that networking event you keep talking about.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe you got accepted into a graduate program, or you

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<v Speaker 1>wrote a draft to vote book. You gave a well

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<v Speaker 1>received talk at your company's annual retreat. Feel free to

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<v Speaker 1>be specific, and also feel free to think big, because

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<v Speaker 1>the truth is, you don't have to show this to

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<v Speaker 1>anyone now. I'd encourage you to share any big dreams

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<v Speaker 1>you have with people who might help make them happen.

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<v Speaker 1>But whether you share or not, if you know what

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like to do by December, this can start shaping

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<v Speaker 1>your schedule over the next year. You can put this

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<v Speaker 1>list somewhere you will see every day, so it can

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<v Speaker 1>start informing your schedule choices. If you know you'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to give a talk at the annual retreat, you can

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<v Speaker 1>prioritize looking over the last few year's topics and meeting

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<v Speaker 1>with the organizers. If you'd like to bring in a

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<v Speaker 1>new client, you can prioritize going to events where you

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<v Speaker 1>might meet such people, or renewing connections with old colleagues

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<v Speaker 1>or friends who have taken jobs at organizations that might

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<v Speaker 1>work with you. Now. Of course, in life, we need

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<v Speaker 1>to be open to possibility too. We can't plan everything.

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<v Speaker 1>If I were to have written my twenty nineteen performance

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<v Speaker 1>review at this point last year, in early October, I

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<v Speaker 1>would have had no idea that I would launch a

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<v Speaker 1>podcast called Before Breakfast in March. I would have had

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<v Speaker 1>no clue that by the end of the year many

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<v Speaker 1>millions of people would have downloaded the show. I am

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<v Speaker 1>thrilled with this development, and it certainly listed as a

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen highlight, but I wouldn't have anticipated it until

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<v Speaker 1>I looked into some late brainstorming sessions with the right people. However,

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<v Speaker 1>I did know that I wanted to do certain other things.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to launch my time management fable, Juliette's School

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<v Speaker 1>of Possibilities, and I wanted to come up with a

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<v Speaker 1>new book topic. And so I've made time for those

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<v Speaker 1>things while leaving space for whatever other wonderful opportunities might

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<v Speaker 1>come up. These things are not either or so right

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<v Speaker 1>next year's performance review. Now, as we know from Stephen

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<v Speaker 1>Covey's book The Seven Habits of Highly effect to People,

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<v Speaker 1>successful sorts tend to put first things first. A big

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<v Speaker 1>part of putting first things first is knowing what those

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<v Speaker 1>first things are writing next year's performance review. Now helps

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<v Speaker 1>you identify those priorities so you can make them a

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<v Speaker 1>part of your life. In the meantime, This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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<v Speaker 1>our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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