The annual review, a dreaded chore? Turn it into a conversation that truly helps people grow.
Follow our step-by-step approach to turn the annual review into an empowering highlight: a review of the past year, a motivating outlook on the year ahead, and a chance to build development and stronger relationships between team members and managers.
20 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- a step-by-step approach to turn the dreaded evaluation into a motivating springboard
- the shift from evaluator manager (80% of the talking) to facilitating coach (20%)
- the right questions to guide your team member's self-assessment
Target audience
Managers looking to build the fundamentals of management.
Learning objectives
- Differentiate between the concepts of evaluation review, progress review, and development review.
- Prepare and organise the annual review in advance to make it a valued, welcoming moment.
- Help your team member self-assess by asking the right questions and build on their past successes.
- Support your team member's progress by reviewing together their achievements, difficulties, and acquired or missing skills.
Module outline
- Storytelling“The Annual Review: The Invisible Classroom”1'33An illustration of the dynamic between past and present in an annual review
- Articles
- Job crafting and its three dimensions
- The evolution of practices: from evaluation review to development review
- Role transformations (evaluator manager → facilitating coach)
- Expert video“Conducting the Annual Review”8'23How to turn the annual review into a springboard for everyone, not a gruelling ordeal
- AnchoringQuiz and True/False questions to dive deeper into the topic and cement what you've learned
- Memo cardDownloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
- BonusA selection of videos to go further (TED, YouTube)
