It’s that time of year again...you’ve spent 11 months working toward every metric, every expectation, and asking for feedback along the way. You expected to be ranked at the top relative to your peers. Then you hear...you met expectations. WHAT?! The feedback from your manager is vague, and you’re told to try again next year. I’ve seen this over and over again in my HR career. I’ve sat in countless rooms where employees are being discussed and evaluated. Some managers advocat

A personal story of learning to speak up, delegate, and lead without losing my cultural values Navigating Cultural Tensions in Corporate America Entering Corporate America as someone raised with Chinese and Eastern cultural values brought a tension I didn’t have language for at the time. I knew how to work hard. I knew how to be reliable. I knew how to read the room and respect authority. What I didn’t know was how to speak up. In my first job, my dad literally told me not to