Time
management performance review phrases

Protects time for the work that matters and says no clearly enough that people plan around it.

Re-sequenced their quarter when priorities changed and flagged exactly what would slip, before it slipped.

Finishes things. Very little work sits at ninety per cent waiting for attention.

The way they triage is worth teaching. Ask them to walk the team through how they decide what not to do.

Ready to own the team's prioritisation rather than only their own.

I cut two recurring commitments that were not earning their time, which bought back roughly a day a fortnight.

When the priorities shifted in [quarter], I flagged what would slip in the same week rather than at the deadline.

Delivers on the dates they commit to and re-negotiates the ones they cannot.

Keeps their own workload visible enough for others to plan around.

Handles competing demands without needing every conflict resolved for them.

Manages their own time well. The next step is defending it: the calendar fills with other people's priorities by default.

Good at completing what is assigned. Worth building the habit of asking what should come off the list when something is added.

I met the dates I committed to and re-negotiated the two I could not, early enough to be useful.

I have started asking what comes off the list when something new is added, instead of absorbing it.

Takes on new work without adjusting existing commitments, so the slip surfaces late.

Spends time proportional to interest rather than to importance.

Several pieces of work sit near-complete for extended periods before being closed out.

When something new arrives, name what it displaces in the same conversation. Silence gets heard as capacity.

Try finishing before starting for one month. Three things done is worth more to the team than eight things underway.

I start more than I finish, and the near-complete pile costs more attention than it looks like it does.

I have absorbed new work without renegotiating the old, which is how my dates have slipped without warning.

Deadlines have been missed repeatedly without advance notice, and the pattern has continued since [month].

Work is regularly reported as nearly complete over long periods without closing out.

We need your committed work in one visible list with dates, reviewed weekly with me, starting this week and assessed in six weeks.

If the volume is genuinely beyond the role, that is a real answer and I need it stated, because I cannot fix a capacity problem I am reading as a delivery problem.

I have missed dates without giving notice. I want a weekly review of commitments rather than relying on my own read of what is at risk.