Try this
- Choose two preparations with a direct effect on the coming week and identify who will do each.
- Keep the review limited to facts needed for those tasks. Save larger financial, personal or household discussions for a separate willing conversation.
A worked example
“Let’s check the calendar and put breakfast things where we need them.”
An invented example to adapt, not a real exchange or a script you have to follow.
Before you leave it here
Leave performance reviews, spending judgments and unfinished arguments outside this short reset.