The Setup
Setting the scene
Your manager asks what skills you want to develop, and the honest answer is "I do not know what I do not know." The blank page of your own development is paralyzing.
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The Development Plan
→Beyond the rating, create a growth plan that actually means something — not just a form that gets filed and forgotten.
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Performance Reviews
→Whether giving or receiving, performance reviews are high-stakes conversations that shape careers. Learn to navigate them with honesty, strategy, and emotional intelligence. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the self-assessment to the development plan — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Setup
This scenario focuses on Setting the scene — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Development Plan, a full interactive story inside the Performance Reviews quest.
Skills you'll build in Performance Reviews
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You map your current skills against where you want to be in two years, and the gaps are specific, uncomfortable, and real. Vague ambition just became a concrete list of deficiencies.
The development plan requires you to do things that scare you — present to executives, lead a cross-functional project, give critical feedback upward. Growth has a price and it is discomfort.
You commit to a plan with deadlines, milestones, and accountability. You learn that professional development is not something that happens to you during reviews — it is something you build between them.
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