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Welcome to the Manager Tools Podcast from Monday, January 9, 2006. This is a a host Michael Ozan and behalf of my partner Mark Horsman and myself.

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Manager Tools is a weekly podcast on management and what specific actions you can take to improve your management skills each and every day.

Today we complete our series on preparing, writing, and delivering annual performance reviews.

For those of you who are new to Manager Tools,

Faithful will heard this a number of times already.

It's probably not a good idea to start with this podcast

if you haven't heard the others on performance reviews. Each of the shows is available

either on the RSS feed or on the website. So I'd highly recommend that you listen to those

first. With that, here we go. Oh, Now what do you bring to the review?

Now what do you bring to the review?

Two copies of the review form, one for you, one for them.

This is the one with the salary information on it by the way.

And the reason for that is they may get up and walk around with it,

and they start asking you

questions from the review while they're walking around with it. If you don't have a copy for you,

it's gonna be awkward. Okay? Two copies of their self-appraisal, one for you and one for them.

They'll forget it, trust me. Okay? You can compare what they had to what

you had. Your supporting materials, which would be a job description in case you

want to go back to it, have it there just in case. Their objectives for the year, any files

that you want to have from their work during the year, any work materials from their

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