Do You Get Performance Reviews?

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Dr. Bell: It's important to know what's going on in the informal community. We find that out by having peers and colleagues and allies that tell us this, that let us know what you're at. I do like to get feedback, but when we talk about the culture of getting feedback in an organization, I don't feel like it is very normalized until there is a structured annual review. And that hasn't been consistently done, at least in my career.

What do you do when no one will give you actionable and useful feedback? That’s the situation our guest, an aerospace engineer, has been in for years. And while she’s managed to move up within her company, she feels like she’s missing out on information that would clarify her standing there and secure her future success.

Ella Bell, an expert on interpersonal communication and organizational behavior, shares creative ways to draw out people’s perceptions of your performance and potential. She also offers advice on how to make sense of the feedback you do receive. It can be especially tricky if you don’t agree with what someone says or if their comments don’t align with your priorities. We talk through both scenarios and give suggestions for how to respond.

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Ella Bell is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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