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The Wall Street Journal (October 20, 2008) gave the traditional employee performance review a failing grade with the following observations:

• The Promise. Performance reviews are supposed to provide an objective evaluation that helps determine pay and lets employees know where they can do better.
• The Problems. That's not most people's experience with performance reviews. Inevitably performance reviews are political and subjective, and create schisms in employee-boss relationships. The link between pay and performance is tenuous at best. And, the notion of objectivity is absurd; people who switch jobs often get different evaluations from their new bosses.
• The Solution. Performance previews instead of reviews. In contrast to one-side-accountable reviews, performance previews are reciprocally accountable discussions about how boss and employee are going to work together even more effectively than they did in the past. Previews weld fates together. The bosses skin is now in the game.

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Exchange has packaged ten of its practical resources into a single "Environments Tool Kit" and is offering the entire set at a 18% discount. Included in the Kit...

Books:

• Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments That Work
• Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
• Learning With Nature Idea Book: Creating Nurturing Outdoor Spaces for Children

Beginning Workshop Units:

• Environments for Special Needs
• Environments
• Environments With Families in Mind
• Outdoor Environments
• Space
• Environments to Engage Children
• Learning Materials

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