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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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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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Performance Review Strategies To Boost Employee Retention

Strategy Driven

Performance reviews are essential for organizations because they help measure workforce productivity, identify gaps, and address them to get things on track. Let us share a few performance review strategies to boost employee retention. Ideally, your performance reviews should be constructive rather than negative.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

It had been an insane but productive year of game-changing projects and really long hours. As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. 3 Ways to Prepare For a Better Performance Review. I was proud, but exhausted. I was beyond annoyed.

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How do you write an impactful performance review phrase?

HR Digest

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. This can help them highlight their strengths and weaknesses which would be beneficial for the company’s productivity as well as the employee’s overall performance. Outstanding work.

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Choose the Right Employee Evaluation Phrases in Your Performance Reviews

HR Digest

There is something about performance reviews we are not getting right but paying attention to what these reviews mention might be helpful. Employees are seeking to be evaluated, however, Trinet and Wakefield Research found that 22 percent of employees preferred to call in sick rather than face formal performance reviews.

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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.