I have the first performance review of my career coming up. As an Analyst, my major responsibilities include being an Excel and PowerPoint monkey. How do I spin these to make them sound impactful?

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Don’t focus on the task so much but try to build the story...what was the problem...how did you tackle it using excel and PowerPoint and then what was the impact/benefits

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Were you a dancing monkey? Cause that’s better

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I have used my deadly PowerPoint skill to save the world from breaking apart, and applied my viscous Excel skill to formulate things in order.

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Use those skills to create an awesome PPT along with an Excel deep dive quantifying the impact you've had ;-) but seriously focus on problems solved, analytics strengths, written presentation strengths, contributions to team's thinking if any, working with large sets of complicated data, etc.

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Excel and ppt is the tool. As a manager I get most frustrated when I see sloppy ppt or ppt that doesn’t tell The correct story or just plain unclear. I either have to spend days on review cycles or hours editing myself. After some coaching most get it. Some don’t. The ones that don’t that feedback goes straight up. You were assigned the ppt to tell a story and achieve a goal. Help your managers or directors do just that

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Don’t say monkey during the review. And we will be good

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