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Work It Podcast: Nailing your annual performance review

Appraisals are commonly linked to compensation, reward and retention. But this is also an opportunity to raise challenges faced at work.

Work It Podcast: Nailing your annual performance review

Looking for a job or trying to nail it at your current one? Host Tiffany Ang and career counsellor Gerald Tan help navigate your important - and sometimes thorny - work life questions.

Jump to these key moments: 

  • 3:50 Why are performance reviews necessary?
  • 6:00 Preparing for a performance review
  • 10:00 What do managers want to hear?
  • 11:41 Giving negative feedback
  • 21:44 AMA: My boss is my friend, now what?

Setting work goals and reviewing them are important for your career progression. What do bosses look for when conducting a performance review? What can you do to better prepare for this chat?

In the first episode of the new season of Work It, career counsellor Gerald Tan has useful tips while host Tiffany Ang puts her supervisor, Crispina Robert, in the hot seat. 

Performance reviews are not just linked to compensation but they are also opportunities to raise concerns with managers. (Photo: iStock/JohnnyGreig)
Crispina Robert on what she hopes from her team:
Ideally, you've someone who comes prepared ... in the day-to-day bustle of life, your boss has 101 things (to do) ... so it's not possible to keep track of everyone's highlights ... So if you've your own ledger (that's good).
Gerald Tan on delivering negative feedback during a performance review:
Put aside the emotions or the perception that (you) might have of a certain behaviour and write down what needs to be changed ... It's really important for managers to step in and say 'I'm here with you ... let's work on this together'.

Listen to more episodes here.

A new episode of Work It drops every Monday. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify for the latest updates.

Have a great topic for us? Drop the team an email at cnapodcasts [at] mediacorp.com.sg  

Source: CNA/ta
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