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Welcome to the Mando Tools Podcast from Monday, December 19, 2005. Hello this is Michael Luzan and welcome back.

Today my partner Mark Horsman and I continue our discussion on performance reviews.

Now if you're new to the podcast, welcome.

And you may want to go and listen to last week's show before continuing with this one.

It will make a lot more sense to you if you do.

Last week we discussed collecting performance data. Today we discuss

evaluating data and writing the review. In the coming weeks we'll get to

actually delivering the review. But before we go on I want to give some props to

Kevin Williams at the Middle Management

Labotomy Podcast.

Kevin's mentioned manager tools a couple of times and is one of the first podcasts that I regularly

listen to, I want to acknowledge Kevin and his efforts.

If you haven't listened to the Middle Management Labotomy podcast in the past. I wanted to acknowledge Kevin and his efforts.

If you haven't listened to the middle management,

lobotomy podcast in the past,

I put a link to his podcast on our blog role

and suggest you go take a listen to it.

So with that, let's continue on with our discussion on performance reviews. The next step is evaluating the data you've gathered and we feel even this is even harder because it's really, again it

depends on the company and the role and so on, but there are three steps we do

suggest everybody go through before you actually write and fill out the form.

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