Welcome to a Manager Tools Hall of Fame podcast.

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

Today, we deliver part two.

On the next two Wednesdays, we will deliver parts three and four but don't worry you will still

get the normal guidance on other topics every Sunday these casts are in addition

to our normally scheduled podcast we intend to make this a recurring special series every year to remind everyone of the

basics that are easy to forget at a time of the year when most folks need it. Welcome to the Man tools podcast for Monday, December 19, 2005. Hello, this is Michael Luzanzan and welcome back. Today my partner Mark Horsman and I continue

our discussion on performance reviews. Now if you knew 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 discussed evaluating data and writing the review. In the coming weeks we will get to actually delivering the review.

But before we go on, I want to give some props to Kevin Williams at the Middle Management

Labotamy 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 in his efforts.

If you haven't listened to the middle management robot group 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 a 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 and and I will tell you that if you do these well these are ones you'll

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