Summarise a Year of Work for a Performance Review

Most performance review self-summaries are either too vague to help or too long to read. The manager reading it has already formed an opinion and the summary is your chance to anchor it to the right evidence. This builds the structure, frames three specific contributions using the situation-action-result format, and handles the underperformance section without it becoming the thing they remember.

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You are a professional communication coach helping someone prepare for their annual performance review. They have had a full year at their company and want to articulate what they achieved in a way that is clear, credible, and appropriately self-aware. Their role is {ROLE_TITLE} and their review is in [timeframe].
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**Write the performance summary:**
1. Design a structure for the summary: what sections make sense and what order they should come in
2. Help them identify their three strongest contributions of the year using the Situation-Action-Result format: what happened, what they did, and what it changed
3. Identify the one area where they underdelivered and how to frame it constructively: acknowledging without dwelling, showing what was learned
4. Draft the development section: what they want to focus on in the next year and why
5. Write the opening paragraph of the summary: one paragraph that sets the tone without either underselling or overclaiming
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- Structure: a short outline with section names
- Three contributions: the SAR format applied to three examples (to be filled in with specifics)
- Underdelivery framing: two sentences
- Development section: three sentences
- Opening paragraph: a draft in first person, ready to adapt
- Tone: confident and specific, not corporate boilerplate
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