The Performance Review & Calibration Prep Kit

Your rating was decided in a room you never saw, by people who heard 90 seconds about your year. That is how it actually works. You cannot attend the meeting, but you completely control the quality of what gets said in those 90 seconds. This kit is how you prepare for a room you will never enter.

Calibration is a room where managers compare their people against each other, from memory, under time pressure, with a fixed number of top ratings to go around. The rating your person walks away with is not always the one they earned. It is the one you could defend. Your people's ratings, raises, and promotions ride on how well you advocate, not just on how well they performed.

This is the system that gets you ready for that room. Built by an operator who has sat on both sides of the calibration table, not a course that has never run a review cycle.

What you get:

• The Calibration Prep Tracker (interactive). A private board you run in any browser: a roster with proposed ratings, a running SBI evidence log per person, a one-page calibration case, a built-in bias check, and delivery tracking. Saves on your device; nothing uploaded.
• The Playbook. The full method: rate against the standard not the room, write the review backward from the evidence, build the evidence file all year, check your biases before the room, prep each person, advocate without overclaiming, work the curve, deliver the rating so it lands, and use AI without getting burned.
• Rubrics & Talking Points. A performance rubric to adapt to your scale, the SBI evidence template with worked examples across roles, a review-writing template, the calibration scripts, the delivery scripts, a six-point debias check, and the AI do and do-not rules.
• The Quick Start. Prep one person for calibration in twenty minutes.
• The Complete Kit. Everything in one PDF, ready to read end to end.

Who it is for: managers heading into a performance review or calibration cycle who want their people rated fairly and defended with evidence, not impressions.

Why it is different: most advice tells you to "give good feedback" and stops there. This gives you the rubric, the evidence system, the prep templates, the in-the-room scripts, the bias and AI guardrails, and a tool to run it, so you walk into calibration with a file for your whole team instead of a scramble the night before.

Guarantee: instant download. If it does not make you more prepared for your next review cycle, reply within 14 days for a full refund. No risk.

Stop walking in with opinions. Walk in with evidence, and win for your team.