Get Your Team Ready for Performance Review Season in a New Year Planning Session

Productive Performance Reviews Need Proper Planning

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The beginning of the year is a fantastic time to get your team fired up and primed for success and do the groundwork for Performance Reviews.

Why?

Because love them or hate them, Performance Reviews address the significant three concerns of your team:

• What work they have to complete
• What development is available
• How the above will help them with their career

If you can highlight the connection between Performance Reviews and your team’s concerns, your team will be much more accepting of the review process.

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Start the groundwork by holding a planning meeting with the team as soon as everyone returns from the holiday break.

Having a team meeting early in the year will:

• Contribute to team building, especially if you make it fun and provide food
• Focus the team on the year ahead
• Allow you to update the team on organizational and team…