These conversations need to be happening frequently and should be consistently high quality, regardless of who is leading it.

This is why the conversation takes a central role in our solution. All reviews in Alexis can take the following stages:

It may seem strange to let people see their feedback before their review but it actually results in a much better discussion. By letting people digest their feedback in private first, their emotional response is out of the way and their discussion will go a lot smoother!
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We highly recommend that teams follow this approach where the employee that are being reviewed share their feedback before a meeting but do understand that this is not how some organizations will want to use Reviews. Therefor it is possible to turn off prep questions.

To help illustrate the steps, here are some screenshots from Alexis:

This is done via a task in your task list or via a link sent via email, Slack and/or Microsoft Teams:
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Clicking the task leads you to the prep questions:
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You'll see all collected answers in an overview in AlexisHR
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Discuss the feedback in a review meeting with your Manager or whom ever is responsible for the review. Meeting notes are submitted via the Meeting Notes tab in the overview:
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