As employees, we need to be more proactive in managing our careers.  While there are many ways to accomplish this, let’s focus on a simple solution: keep a list of all activities and accomplishments for each performance year.   We are all busy trying to complete the work we’ve been assigned and that may cause us to forget to update our managers on our progress. While managers should be scheduling update/ check-in meetings with us, it doesn’t always happen. We need to be proactive and request these meetings.  If months pass before there is an opportunity to talk, we may [...]