Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll tackle the challenging world of performance evaluation.

Andy, one of the ideas we talk a lot about on the podcast is the importance. evaluation. types of evaluation and that's the employee performance review.

Yes, the dreaded employee performance review.

We hate giving them.

We certainly hate sitting down on the other side of them.

The thing that sparked today's conversation is a few months ago,

we just had a discussion about the fact we feel like at certain levels in our organization,

our approach wasn't working specifically at the area of upper management, the level where you and I run and work

with people that we see just about every day and yet we're responsible for the behavior.

So I sat down and put down, I wrote down four or five questions actually we ended up with five that we use all the time and this was an attempt to formalize five questions that would not necessarily replace the performance review at every level of the

organization, but I think in our organization this will replace the performance evaluation

at the upper end of our organization.

So I thought it would be fun to talk about these things

and again maybe free up some people from that that dreaded pressure and maybe more importantly

to take what can quickly become an antiquated routine, we're forced to do this, we know we ought to do this,

practice and bring some greater meaning to it.

And Andy, these questions are really more designed to elicit feedback rather than, well, great performance.

Yeah, specifically, I call them permission-giving questions because they really open up a dialogue with managers and direct reports around things that we know we need to talk about.

But instead of going through a formalized process where I've got a checkbox and fill in blanks and turn it into say I did it,

these are more conversational and as we're going to see at the end, these are really more in the moment, on the go, things that you can blend into conversations.

At the end, again, I'm going to give some specifics about how to use these

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