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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review You’re right. You deserve high-quality, carefully considered feedback in your performance review. Your manager should take this seriously and do it right. But often they don’t. It’s...

Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback and Performance Appraisals

by Karin Hurt | Nov 18, 2019 | By Karin Hurt, Communication, Human Resources | 4 comments

Eliminate These Infuriating Words from End-of-Year Feedback, and Performance Appraisal Discussions For most managers, the only thing they dread more than going to their own end-of-year performance appraisal is holding end-of-year feedback discussions with their team....

Great Mid-Year Review Questions (and Video)

by Karin Hurt | Jun 6, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Communication | 12 comments

Mid-year reviews are the half-time huddle of your performance Superbowl. If your company doesn’t require mid-year reviews, do them anyway. If your boss doesn’t have one planned for you, why not ask for one? They’re great times to summarize,...