The Performance Reviewer
Evidence-First Evaluator
“My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?”
Name it this week, so nobody reads about it for the first time in a review. Get the team together and walk the slip like evidence: the moment it slipped, the decision behind it, what it cost. No adjectives, no blame. Then be just as specific about what went right: who flagged the risk early, what kept it to one week instead of three.
Deflation feeds on vague failure. Close with the expectation: going forward, good looks like a risk raised the day it appears, and you review the new date together on Friday.
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