I have a review coming up and I don’t know how to express in a non confrontational way that the reason my annual review is shit is due to my lack of training.
A year ago, I took on a new position with the same company I had been working for the previous two years. It’s a Project Coordinator role. The annual review is two steps: a self review and then a meeting with the Project Manager to review your self review and their own review of you.
I know it’s going to be bad. My own self review was that I need improvement on everything.
I really want to say to my Project Manager that there is not much communication, I only hear about something when it’s wrong, and that she chooses to do things herself and not explain anything to me. She’ll swear up and down that she’s already told me something and looks to me to know how to do certain things when she hasn’t even shown me how.
How do I tell her all of this without sounding like a jerk? How do I say it without being confrontational or defensive? I’m sure she’ll argue that this is not the case, but it is. We don’t meet, we keep separate logs, and I just really feel like I shouldn’t be struggling this much. I’m a grown woman with above average intelligence. Yet she makes me feel like it’s me that can’t pick up on anything. It’s been a year and I still feel so lost in this position.