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Stop dreading performance review season.

This session provides a step-by-step process for transforming your most difficult HR task—review calibration—into a productive, equitable, and painless session that delivers consistent results across your organization.

Join experts from PerformYard and Thrive HR Consulting as they break down the common pitfalls of calibration and provide you with a practical framework for success.

Why Watch This Webinar?

Calibration is often a source of stress and inconsistency. We cut through the confusion to give you a clear, repeatable process that ensures fairness, minimizes manager bias, and improves the quality of your final performance ratings. This session is essential for HR leaders, HR Managers, and anyone responsible for the review process.

What You Will Learn

• The 5-Step Calibration Framework: Get a practical, simple process you can immediately implement to guide your managers through the session.
• How to Mitigate Bias: Learn proven techniques to address 'leniency,' 'central tendency,' and other forms of bias that derail fairness.
• Pre-Session Prep: Understand the critical data and preparatory work required before the meeting to guarantee a productive conversation.
• Facilitation Techniques: Master the skills needed to host a session that encourages honest dialogue and drives consensus, not conflict.

Meet the Featured Speakers

• Jason Walker: CEO of Thrive HR Consulting. Jason shares his deep expertise in talent management strategy, providing actionable consulting best practices.
• Lauren Staley: Director of Customer Success at PerformYard. Lauren provides practical insights on leveraging technology and process efficiency to make calibration simple and scalable.

SHRM Members: Watch the video to the end and provide your email in the pop-up form to receive SHRM credits.

Uncover the performance management strategies driving real results across 2,000+ companies. The 2025 State of Performance Management report by PerformYard analyzes emerging trends, proven best practices, and measurable organizational impact.

Learn what works for sustainable growth, higher employee engagement, and better employee performance management.

One of the most common challenges of performance management strategies is keeping them relevant for the many roles within your organization. You want a strategy that creates a unified employee experience, but each person’s work can be wildly different. Employees often complain that they’re being evaluated in ways that misunderstand them and their impact on the organization.

In this conversation, we explore how Diana Carrillo implemented a performance management strategy at Cooper Norman that caters to the needs of different service lines while also unifying performance management across the firm.

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Schedule of Events

11:00 - 11:30am ET: How To Make Performance Management Relevant

11:30 - 12:00pm ET: Networking/Learn more about PerformYard

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Speakers

Diana Carrillo, HR Business Partner at Cooper Norman