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Tools ECC. Come to our EMC or ECC or both in Tampa this December, the 10th and 11th.

And we can teach you how to be a better manager and how to communicate better at work.

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we can teach you how to get started on the right foot. Sign up for either for our December Florida event at manager dash tools.com forward slash training. This is Sarah. Last week,

we discussed preparing a performance review. And today, we're going to

cover another important topic, delivering a performance review. 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.

Okay. 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.

Of course, most managers that I know don't, they don't mind giving positive reviews,

so that's not the ones that that produce the stress it's the

it's the providing some constructive feedback during the review that presents most people with the

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