Welcome to Manager Tools. No surprises in reviews. Here we go. This cast answers these questions. Can I share something new with the direct in an annual review? What can I address with the direct in an annual review.

What can I address with the direct in a performance review?

Why shouldn't I bring up new information in a review?

Well if we want answers these questions and more, keep listening.

Folks, this week's episode of Manator Tools is brought to you by the Mandator Tools

effective communications conference.

We'll teach you how to observe and analyze other people's communication behaviors, both verbally, face-to-face,

and in email, and tell you how to make small changes in how you communicate with others to help

you be more effective.

With all the talk about collaboration and teamwork,

you've got to become a better communicator if you want to be most effective.

Come see us at our effective communication conference.

Come to the website manager dash tools.

We've got a list of all of them that are coming up through 2016 and into 2017 as well.

And I'm going to podcast bomb you by saying ECC is the thing. The Effective Communications Conference of course, is what I wish I had known at the beginning of my career. Had I known that? I wouldn't be on this podcast. I wouldn't be on this podcast right now. I'd be now. Everybody would have worked for you.

Exactly.

As I say at the start when I present, I don't present it very much anymore,

but a single most important thing I ever learned in my professional life.

To me, the most wonderful thing about ever learned in my professional life.

To me, the most wonderful thing about many organizations,

that's the annual performance review

and the need for managers who believe that it is their role to entertain and introduce some drama into corporate life because it's not exciting enough without that.

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