Welcome to a Manager Tools Hall of Fame Podcast.

Mike and Mark are on vacation this week.

This guidance is how to prepare, write, and deliver performance reviews.

Today we deliver part one.

On the next three Wednesdays we will deliver parts two three and four

Don't worry. You'll still get your new guidance on other topics each Sunday

These casts will be in addition to our normal guidance.

We intend to make this a recurring special series annually to remind every one of the basics that are easy to forget

when most folks need it.

You're listening to the Manager Tools Podcast for Monday, December 12, 2005. Hello this is Michael Lozan and for our long-term listeners welcome back.

For our newer listeners thanks for joining us today.

Well it's that time of year again.

Most managers we know right now are thinking about the holidays

and annual reviews. Now you didn't forget about that did you? Well after years of

managing training consulting we've concluded that this is one of the most poorly managed and implemented processes

that we're aware of.

It's not hard to do, but for plenty of bad reasons, many managers just don't handle this

responsibility well.

For those of you who do, it's an enormous competitive advantage.

Now, this is a huge topic, so we're dedicating at least the next three podcasts to helping

you deliver an effective performance review.

We've taken the approach that you haven't had a whole year of one-on-ones,

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