If you got here, that’s because you are already planning your feedback cycle with FidForward. We have run this cycle dozens of times, below are the best practices:

Setting up the calendar

• Week 0, Monday morning: FidForward team to release training/how-to videos for performance reviews (for both managers and direct reports)
• Week 0, Friday afternoon: deadline for employees to submit and revise feedback points (to be done through Fiddy exclusively)
• Week 1, Monday morning: FidForward team to revise all feedback given, fix potential bugs and report back to the management team the numbers achieved
• Week 1, Monday afternoon: FidForward team to run a calibration session with all the team managers, where we will review the 9Box of each team and the organization as a whole
• Week 1, Tuesday morning: FidForward team to run a calibration session with CEO, where we will review the 9Box of CEO’s direct reports
• Week 1, Wednesday to Friday: managers to schedule performance reviews with all their direct reports, with FidForward team joining a few of them

Communications

• CEO/COO:
  1. Setup a calendar invitation to all team on Week 0, Friday 18:00 with Deadline to submit feedback to Fiddy
  2. Communicate to team the performance review deadlines:
     • [English] Template to communicate performance review deadlines via Slack
     • [Portuguese] Template to communicate performance review deadlines via Slack
• Team managers:
  1. Set up calendar invites for each direct report on Week 1, Wednesday to Friday
     • [English] Template to tell managers to put review placeholders via Slack
     • [Portuguese] Template to tell managers to put review placeholders via Slack
• FidForward:
  1. Set up the calendar invites for the calibration sessions with the managers and top management

Doubts

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