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Get Ahead Instead of Dreading Your Performance Review

10 Strategies for Successful Performance Reviews

4. Track Your Contributions

The year gets busy and it can be hard to remember all you've accomplished when doing a review. Develop a method for tracking your progress. Create folders on your desktop and keep emails from co-workers on key projects, successes and business gains. Keep a spreadsheet on completed projects and note if they were on time, under budget or measured by another key business metric.

Try to record key milestones once a month so you have an easy reference list with key metrics at the ready — especially if your company includes a self-review in the process.