Imagine walking into your annual performance review. Your palms are sweaty, your heart is racing, and you’re mentally rehearsing all your accomplishments from the past year.
If this scenario resonates with you, you’re not alone. Performance appraisals, while intended to be constructive evaluation tools, have become one of the most anxiety-inducing rituals in the corporate world.
But what if I told you that this doesn’t have to be the case?
That performance reviews can actually be transformative experiences that energize rather than deplete?