The Performance Review & Calibration Prep Kit

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Walk into calibration with a written file on every person, and defend every rating you gave.

Calibration is a room where managers compare their people against each other, from memory, under time pressure, often with a limited number of top ratings to go around. The rating your person walks away with is the one you could defend in that room. This kit gets you ready for it: the standard, the evidence, the case for each person, the bias checks, and the conversation afterwards.

What you get: 6 files, 1 interactive tool

1. Start Here and the Quick Start (2 and 5 pages). Your hardest rating defended on paper in twenty minutes, with a three-week plan to calibration.
2. The Calibration Prep Tracker. Your rating scale and any target distribution, your team, an evidence log, a prep page for each person, a dashboard that flags what the room will push back on, a recency view, blind review, rank order and a feedback log. It prints a calibration card for each person and a team packet.
3. The Playbook (26 pages). The standard, the evidence, the case, the bias checks, the room, the capped-rating conversation, promotion candidates, and the conversations after.
4. Rubrics, Talking Points and Calibration Cards (18 pages). Anchors for each lens and level, a phrase bank, lines for the room, bias checks, delivery lines and cards to print.
5. The Complete Kit (48 pages). Every PDF above in one file.

Who it is for: you write reviews and then defend them to peers who will push your ratings down.

When to use it: three to four weeks before calibration. The evidence has to exist before you can bring it.

Time to result: 45 minutes to prep one person properly. Start with the hardest one.

Your data stays on your device. The tracker saves in your browser, with no account and nothing uploaded, and backs up in one click to a file you keep, so your work survives a new laptop or a cleared browser. Using the One-on-One and Coaching Tracker? Import its evidence straight into this one.

Before you buy. One payment, lifetime access and free updates. The download appears right after checkout and lands in your inbox too; there is no account to create. If it does not leave you better prepared for your next review cycle, email within 14 days for a full refund and keep the files.

Try the Calibration Prep Tracker with sample data before you buy: careerhighground.com/tools/calibration-prep-kit/

Lindsey, Career High Ground