For the Season Finale of Surfing Corporate, we talk with Christine, an HR Vice President with 15 years of experience who worked 8 years at Yale and is currently at a global media company in the area of Corporate Functions. Christine gives the best actionable advice we’ve ever heard about how to tackle performance reviews if you're a manager and/or an employee.

Here are a few key moments of the show:

06:20 We share cool stats about where performance reviews should be headed and get Christine’s opinion on why many companies aren’t there yet.

12:33 Christine addresses what to do if you don’t get a helpful performance review from your boss.

14:52 Dos and Don’ts When You Head into Performance Reviews

19:57 Surfing Strategies for Your Upcoming Performance Review

24:06 We share with Christine our listeners’ questions and comments about their company’s performance review process, like, who actually writes those templates we all have to fill out? Or why don’t these reviews include two-way feedback where employees can review their managers?

32:00 Christine explains why it’s taken so long for companies to change their old-fashion performance review systems.

34:18 We share highly sincere listener comments.

42:09 Why don’t managers have mandatory training when it comes to performance reviews?

46:52 Corporate Confessions

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