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Mid-year performance reviews toolkit
Everything you need to run a great review cycle, have real development conversations, and make smarter calibration and comp decisions.
Mid-year review season is one of the most time-intensive stretches of the year for HR and managers alike. Reviews that go well - where feedback is specific, development conversations lead somewhere, and comp recommendations hold up in calibration - don't happen by accident. They happen because the right structure was in place before the cycle started.
Most review cycles have a gap between the intent and the execution. Managers submit reviews without thinking through development. Post-review conversations happen, but nothing gets documented or followed up on. Calibration meetings start without the data needed to make good decisions.
This toolkit closes that gap with:
30+ questions for self, downward, and upward reviews, with bias-reduction guidance
A fillable career development plan template for employees to complete after their review
A 45–60-minute manager conversation framework for post-review development conversations
10 AI prompts for calibration prep, compensation outlier detection, and team health monitoring
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