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name: performance-review-writing
description: "Specific enough to be useful, fair enough to be defensible. Use when the user wants help with Performance Review Writing. Related topics: Career, Communication, Writing."
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# Performance Review Writing

Specific enough to be useful, fair enough to be defensible.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Person and role** (longer free text)
- **What went well** (longer free text)
- **What did not** (longer free text)
- **Goals set last time** (longer free text)
- **Their self-assessment** (longer free text)
- **The outcome I am communicating** (longer free text)

## Prompt template

## Review

- Person and role: {{Person and role}}
- What went well: {{What went well}}
- What did not: {{What did not}}
- Goals set last time: {{Goals set last time}}
- Their self-assessment: {{Their self-assessment}}
- The outcome I am communicating: {{The outcome I am communicating}}

Ground every single point in an example with its impact. General feedback gets disputed and cannot be acted on.

Balance without false balance. Do not bury something serious between two compliments.

Separate performance from potential, and both from whether I find them easy to work with. Address any gap between their self-assessment and mine directly. Development goals should be specific and within their control, with the support they would need.

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Source: [Performance Review Writing on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/CJQ4tXqUOIpsEGGqMGTT/performance-review-writing)