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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 to Hold a Better Mid-Year Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

Tempted to skip the mid-year review this year, particularly with your high-performers? Mid-Year Performance Reviews are the Half-Time Huddle of Business. Imagine you’re coaching your son’s football team. Read this first. They’re up by 7. What do you say at half-time? Well, […].

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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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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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5 Ways Talent Development Makes Your Company Unbeatable

Traditional performance reviews aren’t working for employees (1 in 5 admit they’d rather call in sick than have one) and nearly 90% of business leaders are currently reevaluating their approach to performance reviews. The way we evaluate and develop talent is broken.

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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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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. Is good at working in a team.

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5 Reasons CFOs Invest in Talent Development

Traditional performance reviews aren’t working for employees (1 in 5 admit they’d rather call in sick than have one) and nearly 90% of business leaders are currently reevaluating their approach to performance reviews. The way we evaluate and develop talent is broken.