The Rubric Pays You to Leave Your Team

Once a year I open a form with four boxes on it. Each box is a competency the company has decided to grade me on: Influence , Teamwork , Results Focus , Customer Focus . I’m supposed to write a paragraph in each about how I embodied it, attach evidence, and hand it to a manager who will argue it in a room against other managers arguing for other people. I have filled this form out enough times to…