Most Important - please understand the rating given to you and evaluate whether the rating is correct.
Most common mistakes are : performance in the mind of many employees does not map to performance as defined by the organization.
e.g. a software company defines overall 7/7 performance for senior software engineers (sse) as those who create defect free output (75 %), show people leadership (20 %) and contribute to the re-usable library (5%). and a 5/7 rating in each of these areas as minimum criteria for promotion to Group Leader
An sse whose outputs are typically 20% better than the rest of the team, but does not progress on the other 2 items (people leadership and reusable library) will never be promoted.
Most other posts already comment sufficiently on what needs to be done in case you see that your boss has been unfair to you.
Cheers.
Most common mistakes are : performance in the mind of many employees does not map to performance as defined by the organization.
e.g. a software company defines overall 7/7 performance for senior software engineers (sse) as those who create defect free output (75 %), show people leadership (20 %) and contribute to the re-usable library (5%). and a 5/7 rating in each of these areas as minimum criteria for promotion to Group Leader
An sse whose outputs are typically 20% better than the rest of the team, but does not progress on the other 2 items (people leadership and reusable library) will never be promoted.
Most other posts already comment sufficiently on what needs to be done in case you see that your boss has been unfair to you.
Cheers.