Ultimate Performance Management: Training to Transform Performance Reviews into Performance Partnerships

Let’s face it. Performance reviews have a bad reputation. For a variety of reasons, too many people approach the review with trepidation, even dread. Without the right mindset or tools, managers tend to put them off until the last minute, whereas performers often approach them with anxiety—not sure how their performance over the past year will be judged. It’s time that we step back from this often negative perception of performance reviews and begin seeing the review as an important opportunity to strengthen the partnership between a performer and his or her manager. When approached with the proper mindset and a new set of tools within the larger ...