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Business tricks they don’t teach at B-Schools – How to report poor performance and get away with it?
For management executives, the quarterly meeting could be a dream or a nightmare. If you and your department have done well, it is time to thump that chest and declare how you are the best thing since beer. But if your performance figures are not up to the mark, it is time to pick from the 101 reasons to weasel out of a meeting. In this post, I would like to provide some tips on how to get out of that dreaded corporate scenario, using what I will conveniently call dressed-up reporting.
Dressed-up reporting, as you would have guessed, is all about presenting your performance data in a manner to make the drop in performance unidentifiable. Of course, you can’t hide poor performance for long. It is bound to be noticed sooner or later, but isn’t it better to be confronted in a closed one-to-one meeting with just your boss than a room full of your peers? Here are some simple tips and tricks that you can use for dressing up your poor performance.