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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

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

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

  1. Ask for any missing inputs before drafting.
  2. Open with a brief overall summary of the period's performance.
  3. Address each goal, stating the result and citing the specific example(s) provided as evidence.
  4. Write a strengths section and a growth-areas section, each grounded in specific examples rather than generic traits.
  5. Suggest one to two concrete development actions for next period.
  6. 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."