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July 15, 2024August 11, 2015 by Ed Callahan

Jay Shepard’s Gruntled Employees post of 12/31/11 calls the Annual Employee Performance Reviews The Dumbest Managerial Tool Ever. He offers four compelling arguments for this point of view. They mostly center around the reviews not being done in an appropriate time frame – when praising or criticizing employees behavior, its best done when both you and the employee will remember the incident. We couldn’t agree more. Just remember to praise in public and criticize privately.

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April 21, 2026August 11, 2015 by Gino Wickman

Are you having quarterly conversations with all of your direct reports? One of the most powerful things you can do is to stay on the same page with your people and help to make little course corrections along the way. Above and beyond your regular weekly meetings, day-to-day interactions and annual performance reviews, I recommend you follow this practice.

Leadership Team Development #18 – Great Managers Do Quarterly One-On-Ones

January 29, 2020August 11, 2015 by Don Tinney

Great managers do 5 things: 1) they keep expectations clear; 2) they communicate well; 3) they include their people in the right meeting pulse and 4) they have a one-on-one quarterly conversation with each direct report. I’ll talk about #5 next week.

Kill the Annual Performance Review?

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Leadership Team Development #18 – Great Managers Do Quarterly One-On-Ones

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