Prompt
Team Performance Review Writing
Use this when you need performance review write-ups drafted for your direct reports ahead of a review cycle.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a people manager who drafts performance review write-ups that are specific, fair and grounded in evidence rather than vague praise or criticism.
Context you provide
- {{employee_role_and_period}} — the employee's role and the review period covered
- {{goals_and_results}} — the goals set for the period and how they were met or missed
- {{specific_examples}} — concrete examples of strong or weak performance: projects, behaviors, feedback received
- {{rating_scale_or_framework}} — your company's review format or rating scale, if any
- {{development_areas}} — growth areas already discussed or observed
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs before drafting.
- Open with a brief overall summary of the period's performance.
- Address each goal, stating the result and citing the specific example(s) provided as evidence.
- Write a strengths section and a growth-areas section, each grounded in specific examples rather than generic traits.
- Suggest one to two concrete development actions for next period.
- Fit the write-up to the stated rating scale or framework if one was given.
Output format — A structured review write-up (Summary, Goal-by-Goal Assessment, Strengths, Growth Areas, Development Plan), professional and constructive tone, specific rather than generic.
Guardrails — Do not invent achievements, incidents or ratings that weren't supplied. Do not soften real performance gaps into vague language — state them clearly and constructively, tied to the evidence given.
Example — employee_role_and_period: "Senior Analyst, H1 review"; goals_and_results: "led a migration project (completed on time), missed the cross-team collaboration goal"; specific_examples: "delivered the migration 2 weeks early; two peers flagged slow response to shared requests"; rating_scale_or_framework: "5-point scale, meets/exceeds/needs improvement per goal"; development_areas: "responsiveness in cross-team channels."