Don't just check a box, tap into a vital conversation with your employees to help them level up 

If you're prepping for performance reviews:

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Performance reviews are key to accelerating your report's career. A former Airbnb Product Lead shares the conversation template that he's used to build high-performing teams and motivate growth all year long.

The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager

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Giving constructive feedback that resonates is extremely difficult. You have to strike exactly the right chord for your words to cause change. Here's the best advice we've seen on how to do that.

Our 6 Must Reads for Managers to Give Feedback That Helps People Grow

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Box's SVP Engineering Sam Schillace on the rubric that has helped the company build and maintain a culture of high performance.

One Rubric Changed Box's Engineering Performance — Here's How

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Climate Corporation's Chief People Officer Meg Makalou has been the human resources leader for startups big and small. Here, she tells of the three most daunting conversations people ops executives face — and recommends routes to resolution. 

A People Ops Veteran on Navigating the Gnarliest Conversations

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As Founder and CEO of Betterment, Jon Stein realized startups can't just establish one way to measure employee performance — they have to continually iterate as they grow. Here's how to do it well.

Betterment Tested Three Performance Management Systems So You Don't Have To

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Upstart Founder and CEO Dave Girouard on the uniquely difficult challenge of evaluating and providing feedback to the leaders at your company.

How Does Your Leadership Team Rate?

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Michael Lopp has headed up People Operations at both Palantir and Pinterest. Here, he explains how to fire people the right way.

The Best Approach to the Worst Conversation: "You're Fired"

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Max Ventilla may be revolutionizing early education, but he's also changing the way startups work. Here's how his company handles the critical matter of performance reviews.