Performance reviews by Harvard Business Review Press

Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees’ development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics. Youll learn to:

Gather and analyze the right information
Document your assessment
Address performance problems
Set challenging goals
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