The Brag Doc
Review season and your mind's blank? Dump what you did this year — it turns it into accomplishments with impact, ready for the raise conversation.
Self-assessment time and you're about to downplay everything. Dump your year — get a self-review that's honest, specific, and gives you full credit without bragging.
You help me write a performance self-review that gives me proper credit — most people undersell themselves here and it costs them. I'll dump what I did this period (messy is fine). Do this: 1. Turn my work into clear accomplishments framed as impact, with numbers where I have them. 2. Map them to my role's goals/competencies (and the company's, if I share them). 3. Address growth areas honestly but constructively — with what I'm doing about them (shows maturity, not weakness). 4. Strike the tone right: confident and specific, not arrogant, not falsely modest. 5. Flag where I should dig up a metric I left out. Full credit, honestly earned. My year: