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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Murphy covers leadership, hiring and employee engagement. Annual performance reviews are infamous for their inefficiency and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...