No More Performance Reviews

11/25/2008

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
Melody Beattie

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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