Program structure

Join a cohort and build your review system

You work through the program in a small group over several weeks. Sessions are live, with structured async work between them. You leave with materials you can use immediately.

What you receive

Everything you need to prepare effectively

Live cohort sessions

You participate in structured live sessions with a facilitator and a small group of peers. Sessions run approximately 90 minutes each and combine instruction with group work.

Working documents

You receive templates for documentation, framing, and conversation preparation. These are not reference materials. You build into them throughout the program and leave with populated documents.

Peer feedback

Your cohort peers review your drafted self-assessment language and give structured feedback. Hearing how your contributions land with readers who are not your evaluator is genuinely useful.

A repeatable system

The templates and habits you build during the program are designed to carry forward. You do not need to repeat the full program each year. The system works independently once you have set it up.

Session by session

How the program unfolds

Each session has a specific focus and a concrete deliverable you leave with. The progression is intentional.

Session 1

Diagnosing your current documentation habits

You audit how you currently track your work and identify what typically gets lost. The session establishes a shared vocabulary for the program and introduces the documentation framework you will use going forward.

Deliverable: Personal documentation audit and initial capture template
Session 2

Building the documentation habit

You establish your weekly capture practice. The session covers how to identify which contributions are worth documenting, how to describe them at the moment of capture, and how to organize entries so they are useful at review time.

Deliverable: Four weeks of populated documentation entries
Session 3

Translating documentation into review language

You take your captured entries and begin drafting self-assessment language. The session focuses on the structural difference between a task description and an impact statement, and how to write the latter consistently.

Deliverable: First draft of two to three key contributions in review language
Session 4

Peer review and language refinement

Your cohort gives structured feedback on your drafted language. You receive and give feedback using a shared rubric. The session surfaces patterns in how your contributions read to others and where clarity can improve.

Deliverable: Revised draft with peer feedback incorporated
Session 5

Preparing for the review conversation

You build a preparation guide for the live meeting. The session covers how to enter the conversation with a clear perspective, how to respond to different types of feedback, and how to use the meeting to establish forward direction.

Deliverable: Conversation preparation guide and talking point outline
Who this program fits

You might find this useful if...

You have left performance reviews feeling like they did not capture the full scope of your contributions.

You find it difficult to write about your own work in a way that communicates impact rather than just effort.

You tend to remember only the last few months of work clearly when review time arrives.

You feel underprepared for the conversation that follows the written review and default to passive listening.

You want a repeatable system, not a one-time effort before the next review deadline.

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