48 min

Performance Review: Build Your Process and Master Feedback Delivery Level-up Engineering

    • Management

Interview with Lara Hogan, legendary leadership coach and former engineering leader about building a performance review process. Lara goes into detail about building a process from the bottom up and takes a deep dive into synthesizing and delivering feedback to your direct reports for maximum effectiveness.
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In this interview we're covering:
Definition of performance reviewsSteps of a performance review processPreparation tips for giving and receiving feedbackRules to giving feedback based on a performance reviewSharpening your skills in giving feedbackSupporting your team to give feedback
Excerpt from the interview:
"You want to make a performance review discussion a two-way conversation.
I’ve seen people say that you should end your feedback with a request like, “Could you pick up more tickets, please?” I consider this a terrible way to deliver feedback that shuts down any chance of a conversation.
Leading questions may serve you well in a toxic situation, or when working out a performance improvement plan. When it comes to delivering constructive criticism in a regular performance review, make it a two-way conversation. This is the best you can do for everybody."
Click here to read the full interview!

Interview with Lara Hogan, legendary leadership coach and former engineering leader about building a performance review process. Lara goes into detail about building a process from the bottom up and takes a deep dive into synthesizing and delivering feedback to your direct reports for maximum effectiveness.
Sign up to the Level-up Engineering newsletter!
In this interview we're covering:
Definition of performance reviewsSteps of a performance review processPreparation tips for giving and receiving feedbackRules to giving feedback based on a performance reviewSharpening your skills in giving feedbackSupporting your team to give feedback
Excerpt from the interview:
"You want to make a performance review discussion a two-way conversation.
I’ve seen people say that you should end your feedback with a request like, “Could you pick up more tickets, please?” I consider this a terrible way to deliver feedback that shuts down any chance of a conversation.
Leading questions may serve you well in a toxic situation, or when working out a performance improvement plan. When it comes to delivering constructive criticism in a regular performance review, make it a two-way conversation. This is the best you can do for everybody."
Click here to read the full interview!

48 min