Employee reviews are a tough sell for employees and leaders alike.  No one likes to do them or be on the receiving end of a review gone wrong.  With as many leaders that don’t like to do reviews, it begs the question, are employee reviews a waste of time. Total Experience design is about creating a business by design vs a business by default.  How you prepare your review matters.  What kind of feedback you give to your team throughout the year matters.  Gutless leaders wait until reviews to talk about issues. Powerful leaders do reviews right, this week’s podcast lays out the process and keys to creating an experience for your team members that they enjoy in the employee review process. Check out the podcast by clicking the player above or you can go to iTunes and subscribe to the show and even rate it there as well. PS.. I mentioned the training and the tool that we put together in the Business Accelerator Membership.  If you are a coaching client, you should already have access.  If you aren’t a coaching client, and you want access, go here. Here is the Transcript of the show: Speaker 1: Welcome to the new work revolution podcast, New Work Revolution tot come take your business leadership to the next level and join the revolution. Here’s your host, Brandon Allen. All right, I want to welcome everyone to the new work revolution podcast here on new work, revolution.com in case you don’t know who I am, this is Brandon Allen and what is the new work revolution The new work revolution is a Speaker 2: crazy idea that I came up with years ago that not only should people execute at work, but they should also enjoy the work and the environment with which they do that work in. If you’ve ever worked for someone else, you’ve ever worked in a large company, you know that sometimes this can be challenging. So that’s what this podcast is about. I want to thank you guys for being here and so I want to talk about employee reviews today. I was doing a workshop a couple of months ago and I had a gentleman asked me about reviews. He just said, hey, you know, tell me a little bit more about reviews. We don’t do them. I don’t really enjoy him. And so we had a good conversation about that. And so because of that conversation, I wanted to really talk about reviews. And this is something that, if you’ve been to our business accelerator membership, we’ve talked about this, we did a training on it I think at the beginning of the year around just the tool that we use to create some intention around reviews. Speaker 2: But you know, as the business owner that I talked to mentioned reviews are a love hate type of a situation, right Because here you have on one end you have employees who want feedback. But the problem with the feedback that they’ve gotten in the past is that their feedback has been given them to them in a way that was unexpected or passive aggressive or maybe just overly aggressive. And so employees are pretty leery about getting feedback even though they know they want it. Now on the flip side of that, there’s leaders that want to give feedback, but they’re nervous about it and it’s awkward and it’s nervous. And it’s Kinda like, you know, I want to approach this person and ask them out for a date. And we’re nervous about it and you know it and reviews are the same thing, right. It’s just an uncomfortable space that we crea...