<aside> 💡 The Performance Conversation is the final stage in our Performance Cycle, and is your opportunity to sit down with your manager and discuss your performance over the past 6 months - celebrate the wins, discuss the learnings and align on expectations going forward.

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What you should walk away from your Performance Conversation with:

• [ ] A clear understanding of your ratings (see above for "what our ratings mean") and what feedback / reasoning drove these
• [ ] Alignment with your manager on expectations in your role
• [ ] Clarity on next steps - this might be another conversation around action planning or your development
• [ ] You should also have the opportunity to provide your thoughts and feelings on the review - this is a two-way conversation, not a monologue

What you won't discuss in your Performance Conversation:

• Your career progression and development plan - your Performance Conversation should be focused on the past & present i.e. what's happened in the past 6 months and how you've performed. You should have a separate, dedicated conversation to your development and building your PDP - a good time for this might be in the weeks following your Performance Conversation.
• A clear action plan of exactly where and how you need to level up - there may be areas in your Performance Review where your manager has identified you could level up (this may be skills, experience, behaviour). While the Performance Conversation should discuss these areas and the themes that drive them, it's not necessarily the time to action plan and solutionise - give yourself time to digest the conversation, and set a subsequent action planning session with your manager.
• Your salary review - ideally, we keep our Performance and Reward conversations separate. This is so we can focus on what's really important in each of these conversations, without being distracted by the other. However, you will have your Reward conversation by 23 July 2021 this cycle - if you're unable to make time for two separate conversations, these may be combined due to necessity.