A leadership lesson
The appraisal that finally worked
A client of mine used to dread her own appraisal talks — not because the feedback was harsh, but because she never knew how to describe the year in a way that felt true. “Good,” she would say, or “busy,” and the conversation would drift.
We drew the chart together beforehand. Three columns: what drained her, what she barely noticed doing, and what had made an afternoon disappear. She walked into the meeting with three real sentences instead of one vague word, and for the first time her manager knew exactly what to give her more of.
