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Today's cast, the big four of performance communications, Part 1.

Questions this cast answers are, how can I ease in to giving feedback?

What topics should I be giving feedback on?

And what kinds of performance conversations should I be having?

If you want the answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

Hey folks, it's that time of the year when individuals are leaving jobs, moving to new roles,

looking for new opportunities.

And what that means is, we may be talking to a person looking for tools to help them get a new job.

We've got, on our website, a tool called the Interview Series.

The Interview Series gives you podcasts, videos, questions to help you prepare in order to ensure when you're interviewing,

you're given the best possible opportunities.

It's on our website, manager-tools.com, forward slash products.

We've talked about this so many times.

It's hilarious, almost.

Even though managers, we know we're supposed to be giving feedback.

We know it's our job to have performance communication conversations.

It doesn't mean we don't struggle.

I mean, all managers struggle at some point in their career, if not currently, giving more feedback.

So, we're going to talk in today's cast, or I suppose a series of cast that we're kicking off today.

We're going to talk about the most common and effective topics to focus on.

And a way to introduce performance into your conversations so that those of us who struggle with feedback can ease our way in to the delivery of it.

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