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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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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Give it a try as you prepare for your own performance review, or share with your team to help them prepare for their meeting with you. 3 Ways to Prepare For a Better Performance Review.

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How Leadership Development is Hurting Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re blind-sided in performance reviews. Career & Learning Communication career development leadership development' You need feedback, and most people ask too little. And as it turns out, some people ask too much. Signs You’re Asking Too Little. You have no idea where you really stand.

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Conduct your OWN performance Review

Career Advancement

Client Clara asks: I always get so nervous before my annual performance review. Coach Joel answers: Performance reviews can be daunting, but being proactive about the process will make it a motivating ritual that you look forward to. Aim to conduct your own performance review on a quarterly basis.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. I’ve seen many breakthrough moments when people from all walks of life set their sights on developing new thoughts, actions, and habits.

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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Designed to measure performance in order to determine whether employees have met their goals and thus have contributed to the organization’s results, they are usually highly structured, formulaic, and data-oriented.

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Career Opportunities With a Master’s in Education Administration

Strategy Driven

Those passionate about teaching and who want to make a difference in students’ future find this an ideal career choice. A master’s in education administration offers an opportunity to explore many career paths. These administrators may oversee financial aid, student affairs, or academic and career advising services.