Performance Reviews, Part 1: When Feedback Feels Like Judgment

What happens when your performance review praises your results, but tears down your identity? In this raw and vulnerable solo episode of Work Unscripted, host Marlo Lyons shares the real words from one of her own annual performance reviews— like “over-driving,” “over-reacting,” and “the Marlo show.” As a neurodivergent professional, Marlo unpacks how judgmental feedback lands, why it stings, and what leaders can do to make performance reviews feel constructive instead of personal. You’ll lear...