How to Give Feedback and Have Difficult Conversations

Giving feedback to employees is critical to their success and, quite frankly, your business’ success. Especially now that Millennials have made it clear that coaching, feedback, and personal growth are an integral part of their desired employment experience, companies must get better at giving feedback–positive as well as negative. This is one of the top… Read More

Five Steps to Delivering a Micro-Review

I’m a believer in formal annual reviews. They’re a crucial tool in a manager’s leadership and organizational development toolbox. Companies that toss them out in the name of “the new generation” are losing a major opportunity to shape team members’ professional trajectory. Day-to-day, an employee may not meet your expectations on particular job tasks and will… Read More

Performance Reviews Are Still Relevant

Much has been written recently about the evolution of the performance review.  To judge from the past several years’ discussion on the topic, it wouldn’t be a stretch to think that performance reviews are a relic of the past, ready to be mothballed. I disagree with the notion that performance reviews are antiquated, and I… Read More

The Performance Review is Dead – A Podcast with the Founders of Fizz

The founders of Fizz, Jennifer Shoop, COO, and Landon Shoop, CEO, discuss why the performance review is dead, millennials and other generations attitude towards the workplace, and how they split duties as a husband and wife team on this episode of The Best Team Wins Podcast.                Connect with Fizz… Read More