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When you browse for " Annual Performance Review ", you might get many articles on how to prepare and conduct Annual performance review. But rare on what to do ' after ' your performance review.   Even though am a person with an ideology of performance reviews to be part of day-day activities and not an annual event, but since many companies still believe and carry out as their employee evaluation am trying to pin down some things to do ' AFTER ' performance review.   So here are some of tips, hope they are useful to you :  1. Your evaluation is already done. Its a formality.  If your company is still following the bell curve, please be aware that your Manager has already decided on your rating and your discussion with him / her is a formality. With a sizeable team, Manager is forced to rate his employees into 20% Top, 70% general and remaining 10% as bottom. Therefore, your rating is already done and shared.  This practice is talking of...

The Vice President had lost his audience mid way of his speech with a montonous and uninterested content. Noticing this the Managing Director of company who was next to address the employee at the half yearly event wanted to get back the audience. So he started with an aggressive start. "Good morning my dear colleagues, i am sure the canteen services have improved and we get the best food here. I see that in all your eyes." Sarcastically started the MD.  "As many employees here are future leaders, let me start this speech with a short story. There were a group of young soldiers who were lost in peaks of Alps, Swiss. It was getting dark and they wanted to get back to their base camp. A young soldier in group who was carrying some food in his bag, emptied it and suddenly realised that there was a map stuck to the bag. He took the map and gathered the other soldiers to lay out the route to the base camp. They all laid out the map and started moving in the dir...

In an era of digital marketing, here was an incident which I came across when I was strolling through the busy streets of Bangalore. A Young Boy probably in his early 20's approached me with a bunch of pamphlets and handed me one. The boy looked well dressed and wore latest fashion. "Sir, we have a new photo studio with the latest technology and amazing Service". This was really not the need and I informed him of my dis-interest. But he pleaded hard and infact gave away that on sending X no. of customer he would be getting Y% of incentive and he was in extreme need of money. Still not interested, but also not trying to make him feel dejected again I agreed to go upstairs to studio and have a look. But I had a pre-set mind not to be lured, because I didn't have a need. As I reached  photo studio I was amazed with the studio and the photos they had taken. I spent nearly 30 mins in studio appreciating each photo and also ended up getting a photo done ...