The Performance Review Playbook
How to Conduct Fair, Documented, and Defensible Employee Performance Reviews
The methodology behind a defensible performance review. For the manager who has written reviews that read like personality assessments and is looking for the discipline that produces fair, evidence-based, documented evaluations. Covers the review cycle calendar, the evidence-gathering practice that runs throughout the year (not the week before the form is due), the rating scale that holds up to challenge, the conversation structure for the review meeting itself, and the documentation pattern that supports merit, promotion, and corrective-action decisions. Includes the legal-and-HR framing that production supervisors often miss: the documentation standard, the consistency-across-team test, and the failure modes that turn a review into a liability. Written for plant managers, production supervisors, and HR coordinators. Pairs with the Employee Performance Review Workbook by Wade Prescott.
View on AmazonThe methodology behind a defensible performance review. For the manager who has written reviews that read like personality assessments and is looking for the discipline that produces fair, evidence-based, documented evaluations.
Covers the review cycle calendar, the evidence-gathering practice that runs throughout the year (not the week before the form is due), the rating scale that holds up to challenge, the conversation structure for the review meeting itself, and the documentation pattern that supports merit, promotion, and corrective-action decisions.
Includes the legal-and-HR framing that production supervisors often miss: the documentation standard, the consistency-across-team test, and the failure modes that turn a review into a liability.
Written for plant managers, production supervisors, and HR coordinators. Pairs with the Employee Performance Review Workbook by Wade Prescott.