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Your review and your goals

Write your self-reflection, read and acknowledge your review, and record progress on your goals.

Updated 31 October 2026

A review covers a period of your work, usually a year. It belongs to your employment, or to one of your roles, and the reviewer is normally that role's manager.

The steps

StageWhat happens
DraftThe reviewer opens it and sends it to you
With the employeeYou write your self-reflection
With the reviewerThe reviewer writes the review and shares it with you
AcknowledgedYou have read it
ClosedThe reviewer or HR closes it

A review waiting for you appears under Reviews at your step in your Inbox, and the bell tells you.

Write your self-reflection

  1. Open the review.
  2. Under Self-reflection, write how the period went.
  3. Choose Submit to the reviewer.

Read and acknowledge it

When the reviewer shares the review, it appears under The review. Read it, then choose Acknowledge.

In a Major review, the reviewer also places you on the 9-box grid for performance and potential. You see where once the review is shared.

Only you, the reviewer, the role's manager and HR read what a review says. Nothing in it goes to Payroll or Training.

Your goals

Your manager sets your goals, usually in a review. Each one says which goal above it supports and how. It may have:

  • KPIs: a figure to reach, such as a satisfaction score.
  • CSFs: what must be true for the goal to succeed, marked Not started, On track, At risk or Met.

To record progress, open the goal and choose Record beside a KPI or Update beside a CSF. When you have finished a goal, choose Mark done beside it on the review.

A goal that needs learning shows learning: Training is told, and the courses Training arranges for it show under it on the review.

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