Doing annual performance reviews is always a challenge. I have done more than my share in another life. I considered them not just a chance to look back over the past year but to talk with the colleague about his or her hopes, goals, and dreams for the future. As far as I was concerned, these were opportunities for celebration and discovery as well as evaluation. In a recent blog Lydia Dishman wrote: “Starting this month, global professional-services firm Accenture will add its name to a growing list of organizations including GE and Deloitte that are ending their annual performance review and ranking systems.” Dishman goes on to describe the short-comings of the performance review process. It was interesting to note that one of the persons she interviewed saw performance appraisal as “a look in the rearview mirror.” Evidently his view of the process was rather limited. Dishman describes an alternative characterized by “r...
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