Category archives: Performance Reviews

Workers crave feedback, but feedback loops often go wrong.

Businesses have been struggling with ineffective performance review models for decades. A strategy that works? Consider a user-centric platform.

Employee appraisals that improve performance are essential to reaching company goals.

A survey of over 25,800 companies showed that fully 20 percent had dumped dreaded annual performance ratings.

One place to start is to learn the difference between “situational” and “dispositional” feedback.

Within its self-steering teams, Booking.com found that without a formal manager or HR-led structure, its employees weren’t receiving feedback from their peers. It moved to change that.

The “annual” performance review system is broken. And fixing the system won’t be easy. But start with more frequent, less critical feedback.

Managers and employees alike are stressing because they’re about to have their dreaded year-end performance review. Fix that.

But the answer is definitely ‘yes’ if you’re at a startup and your employees wear many hats.