Career Conversation Cheatsheet

Most designers report to someone who doesn't come from design. Your manager controls your performance review, your promotion timeline, and your project assignments, and they're working with an incomplete picture of what you actually do.

This one-page cheatsheet gives you the six moves that translate your work into the language your manager already operates in. Print it and bring it to your next 1:1.

What's inside

• All six moves with the exact sentences to say: setting goals in their language, making decision-making visible, bringing an evaluable roadmap, tracking work in their metrics, training without calling it training, and learning their language back
• Goal translation examples: design language to business language
• A 1:1 agenda template you can bring to your next career conversation
• One printable page for before every review cycle

Want the full approach behind this cheatsheet? Read How to Have a Career Growth Conversation When Your Manager Doesn't Understand Design.