Prepping for your 1:1s with your team? Here's how to bring the best out of each person, have meaningful discussion, and boost ...

End-of-year (EoY) conversations often feel like performance reviews, but they are so much more than that. If done right, they ...

Promotion conversations are already happening behind closed doors—where careers are accelerated, stalled, or quietly passed over. Here are three moves to ensure you come out ahead. It goes without ...

Andrea Wasserman advises employees to enter performance reviews with preparation and clear goals. Managers value self-assessment, data-backed achievements, and openness to feedback in reviews. She ...

When presented with the option of numerical vs narrative performance reviews, employees find the latter to be the fairest ...

Lots of people assume that managers just know how to do this stuff,’ says academic explaining that manager training and timing are as important in performance reviews as metrics and ratings ...

Almost all of us have gone through the ritual. The trek to the boss’s office, the tense stares across the desk, the awkward mix of praise and criticism—and the potential for a promotion or a pink slip ...

Performance reviews have long been a staple in the corporate world, but are they really serving their intended purpose? Keeping in mind workplace dynamics and employee expectations, traditional ...

Throughout my career leading teams at Nordstrom, Verizon, and Yahoo, I've conducted hundreds of annual performance reviews. Some employees walked in composed, prepared, and ready to shape their career ...