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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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How do you write an impactful performance review phrase?

HR Digest

Employees need some kind of validation on their performance within an organization. As a manager, you have to give constructive feedback and this is easier when you have a list of performance review examples to guide you. What is a performance review phrase? Performance Review Examples on Attendance.

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Striking the Right Tone: Things to Say in a Performance Review

HR Digest

among many others, published a list of performance review horror stories from unhappy employees and it is hard not to wince at these experiences. Finding the right things to say in a performance review can be difficult, both for the reviewer and the employee, but it is undeniably important for everyone to try and get it right.

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30 Useful Performance Review Phrases

HR Digest

Performance reviews are an essential tool in giving employee feedback and determining areas of improvement and excellence. . No manager actually enjoys doing performance reviews. When it comes to evaluating job performance, there’s no template and there is no one size fits all formula.

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Expert Strategies for Handling Vague Feedback from Your Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 257: In this episode, you’ll learn how to handle a manager who gives lazy, frustrating, and vague feedback. Try saying, “Could you give me an example of what you’re referring to? .” And when feedback is unclear, don’t hesitate to ask for concrete examples. Can you please tell me more?

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How to Write a Performance Review: The Journey from Start to Finish

HR Digest

With an endless list of employees working under you, figuring out how to write a meaningful performance review can be very difficult. While annual reviews are slowly going out of style, employee performance reviews are still a crucial process that allows employers and employees to track individual progress.

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Choose the Right Employee Evaluation Phrases in Your Performance Reviews

HR Digest

For anyone in a managerial role, writing employee evaluations becomes a repetitive task and there are only so many times they can write “good performer” and “team player” without running out of useful employee evaluation phrases. According to an SHRM article, managers spend an average of 210 hours a year on performance management activities.