Coaching practices for Manager Strongly Suggests That I Do More Unpaid Overtime During Performance Review

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• When I do this alone in my head it’s too easy to let myself off the hook and skate past the uncomfortable parts
• Feedback in my one-on-ones only ever flows one way
• I tend to bite my tongue in the moment and save things up for the formal review, and then I dump weeks of accumulated issues on someone all at once
• I keep delivering work I’m proud of and it somehow lands flat with my boss, and I’m realizing I have no real idea what they’re actually being judged on or pressured about
• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work

Practices that may help

1. Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
   A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
2. Make feedback flow in both directions
   Give timely, specific feedback — and ask for it on your own management.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
3. Give feedback in the moment, not stockpiled for reviews
   Feedback accumulated for a periodic review arrives late and in bulk — neither helps.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
4. Map your manager’s top three priorities
   Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
5. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
6. Expand your role through extra-role behavior
   Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
7. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
8. Schedule the weekly review as a non-negotiable recurring appointment
   Put the weekly review on the calendar as a fixed, protected block — and treat it as an external meeting.
   The GTD Weekly Review
9. Calibrate review depth to your current context
   Match the depth of the weekly review to what the week actually calls for — short when the system is current, deeper when life has been chaotic.
   The GTD Weekly Review
10. Catch people doing things right
    Most management attention goes to problems — systematically noticing good work is both rarer and more powerful.
    The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work

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