Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, How to Deliver An Unofficial Review. Here we go. Why I've told the story several times of my boss, long time ago, doing me a favor

and literally giving me a review, a perfect review by the way, and then setting it down and saying,

okay now let me tell you what I really think about you.

Right. That was huge and she learned something I think that, or she knew something, you and I learned a long time ago in our

Army days, right?

I think you probably recall, right?

Back in the day, one of the fears of our non-commissioned

officers is they get some new lieutenant who come out who didn't understand reality that were

mired in the way things ought to be or the way things should be and say well you're not

perfect therefore you don't get a perfect efficiency report and on a scale of

100 I think it's 125 if you gave somebody a 120 what you would think would be pretty good, you killed their career.

Yeah, you killed it, right? And so we learned a technique a long time ago about, you know, giving them somebody an official report and then following up with

an unofficial report.

Yep.

And you hit the nail on my head in terms of the way things ought to be. And be. And I didn't have it in my mind about young people, but you're absolutely right, a young

manager who says, well, it's an accurate report.

Yeah, but it's not an effective report if you hammer somebody and it's true what you say but no one else

is doing that. Look evaluations and candor even though candor is to be

appreciated and respected evaluations and candor is to be appreciated and respected, evaluations and candor sometimes politically can't go together.

And what we recommend is that you separate the candor from the politics.

And we want you to do both, and here's the way we're going to recommend

you have an official conversation. We'll also being able to have a candid one too. And folks, it should be pretty obvious, we'll take you through the details here. I think the

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