Hi folks, this is Mark Horseman, the co-founder of Manager Tools.

Welcome to another episode of Manager Tools, and a special episode of that.

The last of the three annual re-releases of our Hall of Fame casts on performance reviews,

the cast you're about to listen to, is how to deliver a performance review.

Once you've prepared it and written it, how do you go through the process of communicating

it with your direct?

Lots of details here, as always.

As with the other cast, this was originally two parts, and we've pushed it into one.

I'll be back at the transition.

Here we go.

My guess is that delivering reviews is probably one of, if not the most stress-inducing,

anxiety-producing events most managers go through each year.

Only exceeded probably by getting laid off or laying someone else off.

Yeah, you know, I think they're, and what's sad about it is it's much more stress-inducing

for the people who are receiving it because the managers do it so poorly.

And you know, it goes back to something I told somebody a couple of years ago, Mike, I

call it the Christmas rule, which is anything that you do once a year that's really important

to you, like Christmas, is going to be stressful, right?

You don't practice it, right?

It's like people playing golf once a month and wanting to be really good like the guys

on TV, not going to happen.

So yeah, I'm not surprised it's terribly done, but it is pretty bad.

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