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How New Managers Can Navigate Their First Performance Reviews
Episode 131 of New Manager Conversations tackles one of the most stressful moments for any first-time leader: conducting performance reviews. Lucas and Luna unpack the specific case of Sarah, a first-time manager at a mid-sized software company who inherited a team with mixed tenure and uneven performance. They discuss how to frame reviews as coaching conversations rather than verdicts, the importance of gathering input from peers and stakeholders in advance, and why anchoring ratings to observed behaviors—not personality—keeps the process fair. Lucas shares a concrete framework: the…
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