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Are performance reviews a waste of time—or your agency’s secret weapon?

Too often, agencies treat performance management as a checkbox exercise, bogged down with vague feedback and awkward salary conversations. But Zoe Elizabeth Blogg, Operations Director at Reboot Online, has built a system that actually works. 

From structured performance reviews to proactive (quarterly!) salary reviews, Zoe’s created a process that keeps teams engaged, managers confident, and top talent sticking around—all in a fully remote, four-day workweek agency.

In this conversation, Zoe breaks down how to make performance management meaningful and scalable.

Here’s what we dive into:

• Why performance reviews fail—and how to make them useful (without the admin burden)
• Why Reboot runs salary reviews four times a year—without turning them into negotiation battles
• The key to training new managers so they lead with confidence, not confusion
• How Reboot creates equally rewarding career growth paths for both individual contributors and managers.

Plus, Zoe shares impressive details on her line manager playbook, and structured career pathways.

Follow Zoe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoeelizabethblogg/

Visit Reboot’s website: https://www.rebootonline.com/us/

Follow Zoe on TikTok: @fractionalzo

Follow Harv on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvnagra/

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