Annual Performance Review: Fight for your due, without asking the impossible
updated the 12 June 2014 à 23:49The thorny issue of pay raise rests on your performance review, and this is normal! Bring up the topic carefully, and play your cards right.
The issue of pay rise hovers like a cloud above the performance review. It’s normal! It is to avoid this pitfall that many companies stall the review to the beginning of the calendar year rather than in September or October, when the pay checks are flying about. Nevertheless, the annual review well prepares us in that little exercise of requesting an increase: since there is question of the quality of work, we generally avoid going as far as addressing the amount of hard cash that is about to be put on the table.
But there it is, in the last line from the interview, as a dessert, not an appetizer for the moment should not be parasitized by negotiations on the salary or promotion. And again, we should behave like the professionals. “We have to be realistic, refer to the salary charts and ask for something that is obtainable. What doesn’t work as well is to demand a pay rise that is off-budget, or when demands happen too often,” highlights Pascaline Mallasingne.
Our tips for a successful annual performance review:
Keep track of your performance in the company
Know how to discuss, without being overbearing
Optimize your meeting time
Stop stressing out!
Be firm in your stand
Valérie Rodrigue
