The Performance Review Show with Fexingo: Feedback, Ratings, and Annual Evaluations

In this episode of The Performance Review Show, Lucas and Luna tackle the art of writing your own performance review — specifically, the self-assessment section that precedes most annual evaluations. They explore why most people write useless, forgettable self-reviews and what to do differently. Lucas draws on a 2024 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology showing that self-assessments writte...

In this episode of The Performance Review Show, Lucas and Luna break down the recency effect — the psychological bias that causes managers to overweight recent performance and forget the first 11 months of work. They explain why a stellar December can erase a mediocre year, or why a small March mistake can haunt you in December. Lucas shares data from a 2023 study by researchers at Harvard and Col...

Most of us dread performance reviews because we sit there passively while a manager reads off a list of 'areas for improvement.' But Lucas and Luna dig into a specific reframe used by executive coaches at companies like Google and Microsoft: the single question that shifts the power dynamic from evaluation to negotiation. They walk through a real case of a mid-career product manager who used this...

Episode 1 of The Performance Review Show with Fexingo — Lucas and Luna unpack why the annual review process is broken for most employees and managers. They anchor the conversation in a 2023 CEB study that found 95% of managers are dissatisfied with their company's performance review system, and 90% of HR leaders say reviews don't yield accurate information. Lucas traces the history from formal rat...