How to Recover From a Poor Performance Review

A poor performance review can feel like a devastating blow to your career. Your employer may not be happy with your work lately for several reasons. It could be poor sales, excessive absences or bad feedback from your clients. However, there are ways that you can recover from a poor performance review and still come out on top.

Instructions

1. Ask for a copy of the review. This gives you a chance to look it over and reflect on what was said during the performance review meeting.

2. Address any issues that you may have with the review. It may be possible that your employer's judgment of your work is incorrect. You should talk to your employer about any issues that you may have.

3. Use the review as inspiration. A poor performance review can give you the push that you need to improve your work habits. Draw up a plan on how you can improve the areas that you were criticized in.

4. Keep the discussion private. There is no reason that you need to announce to your coworkers the things that were said during the performance review.

5. Watch your step. Although, a poor performance review does not mean that you are going to be fired, you should still try to work extra hard afterwards. You want to prove that you are a valuable employee of the company.

Tips & Warnings

• For your next performance review, prepare ahead of time. Show examples of ways that you have improved since the last review.

• Don't argue against the performance review if the claims have validity. Otherwise, you will be viewed as unable to take criticism.