The review form is ready.
Your managers are about to have the conversations that shape next year. Here is a free kit to prepare them, and a safe place to rehearse before the real thing.
60 free minutes for your team · No credit card · See pricing
Free kit, no form. Hosted in Europe.
Every review has one moment where it can go either way.
Your managers will meet at least one of these this season.
Seven ways a good year turns into a bad review.
Anything an employee hears for the first time in the annual review is a failure of the year, not of the employee.
Instead: If it is new, say it is new, and own the delay.
The last six weeks quietly overwrite the other forty-six.
Instead: Go through the year month by month before you write a word.
Once a score is on the table, nobody hears anything else.
Instead: Talk about the year first and the rating last, within your company's process.
One big win, or one big miss, colours every other objective.
Instead: Judge each objective on its own evidence.
The manager talks 80% of the time and calls it a dialogue.
Instead: They speak first. Aim to talk less than half the time.
“Be more proactive” has never changed anyone's behaviour.
Instead: One situation, one behaviour, one impact.
Pay, promotion, budget: things said under pressure to end an awkward moment.
Instead: Say what you will check, with whom, and when you will come back.
The year-end review kit. Free, and made to be forwarded.
11 pages your managers can read in 20 minutes. A 30-minute preparation checklist, a 60-minute conversation structure, the 8 situations with what to avoid and what to say, and a summary email template for the 48 hours after.
- 7 traps
- 1 structure
- 8 situations
- SBI, DESC and GROW explained simply
- A summary email template
No form. Send it to all your managers.
Knowing what to say is not the same as being able to say it.
A kit prepares the head. The review happens out loud, in real time, with a person who reacts. The moment someone says “that's unfair”, most managers forget the method they read the day before. That moment can be rehearsed.
Try the 3 review moments →- Let them explain first✓
- Facts, not impressions (SBI)✓
- No promise under pressure~
- Talk share46%
You defended the rating before asking which part they saw differently. Next time, open with their view.
A workspace for your company, ready before review season.
- 1Create your workspace.Free to start. Your managers can rehearse their first review the same day.
- 2Make it yours.Upload your review guide or competency framework, and the scenarios adapt to your process and vocabulary.
- 3Invite your managers.They rehearse alone before a review, or live during a manager workshop.
- ✓Hosted in Europe.
- ✓Audio is not stored. Transcripts can be deleted at any time.
- ✓Your data is never used to train models.
- ✓Coaching against SBI, DESC and GROW, or against your own internal model.
Questions HR teams ask
Our managers have no time.+
One scenario takes 5 to 10 minutes, the length of a coffee before a review.
We already train managers on reviews.+
Keep doing it. Harco is where they practise what they learned, at the moment they need it, alone or in your workshop.
Will managers actually use it?+
They use it for the review they're worried about. That's usually enough to start.
Does it follow our process?+
Upload your guide or framework. The scenarios and the feedback use your criteria.
Who hears the conversations?+
Nobody. Audio isn't stored, and the manager controls their transcripts.
What does it cost after the trial?+
Creating your workspace and your first 60 minutes are free, no credit card. After that, Harco doesn't charge per user: you pay for the practice time your managers actually use, from 99 a month for the whole team.
Every important conversation deserves to be rehearsed.
Create your company's workspace today and invite your managers before the first review.
60 free minutes for your team · No credit card · See pricing