4 ways leaders can stop dreading performance reviews
SmartBrief | 12.05.2026 22:51
Early in my career, I had a manager who scheduled my annual performance review, then canceled it. Then rescheduled it. Then came into the meeting fifteen minutes late, clearly unprepared, and spent most of our time together shuffling through notes, trying to remember what I had actually accomplished over the past twelve months. I walked out feeling invisible — not because the feedback was bad, but because the whole exercise communicated one clear message: this is a formality, not a priority.
