Hey folks, Sarah here for Manager Tools. This week we're coming at you with a throwback podcast.

It's because we, just like you, have families that we want to spend this time of the year with.

If you are not in the United States, it is Thanksgiving quickly approaching.

Therefore, as we do every year, we are going to release some of our classic performance review

podcasts, knowing that many of you are preparing for performance reviews at this time.

So today, we're going to release our classic podcast preparing performance reviews.

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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, despite I'm sure your dedication to doing so in the coming year. So you don't have the related notes and haven't done quarterly reviews to prepare for this one.

In this first podcast, we start walking through how to write the review.

There are three steps in this first part of the process, collecting data, evaluating data,

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