Performance reviews can make employees nervous. Common questions that might roll through your mind: What will my manager say? Have I achieved enough? What if the feedback is terrible? The presence of the unknown can be unnerving in these annual assessments. But they need not be. While performance reviews evaluate your success against certain markers, they are talks with your manager about improvement, ambition and support.

Here are some performance review tips to take the anxiety out of the process and maximise what you get out of this valuable two-way conversation.