Name: Optimize Your Performance
Uploaded: 2026-01-04T12:07:54+00:00
Duration: 7 min 17 s
Description: We focus on the most practical actions within your control to reduce layoff risk by becoming a consistently high-perform

Optimize Your Performance

We focus on the most practical actions within your control to reduce layoff risk by becoming a consistently high-performing, high-impact contributor.

- Optimizing performance should be a constant priority, starting with deeply understanding your company’s performance review system and knowing exactly what ratings mean and how they affect your risk and growth.
- Staying calm and avoiding gossip or obsession with layoff rumors is critical, since anxiety and distraction directly undermine performance and effectiveness.
- Maintaining a clear, transparent, and concise dialogue with your manager is essential, because managers advocate for you using only a few high-level impact points.
- Expanding scope and proactively tackling important, ambiguous problems is one of the strongest career multipliers and a key trait of top performers.
- Building a clear professional “brand” on your team—where others can easily articulate what you’re known for and the value you deliver—makes you more visible, promotable, and resilient during layoffs.

We focus on the most practical actions within your control to reduce layoff risk by becoming a consistently high-perform