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Performance Ratings: Should You Score People at All?
A rating is a compression built for a decision made somewhere else, which is why it works for pay and destroys development conversations.
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Performance Management
Performance Management
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SMART Goals: What Survives Contact With Real Work
SMART is a checklist for wording a goal, used as a method for choosing one, and the format quietly picks the content before anybody asks what matters.
The Performance Improvement Plan: What It Is Actually For
A plan is either a genuine attempt at recovery or the documented route to an exit, and the damage comes from running the second while describing it
The Performance Review Nobody Dreads
One hour cannot deliver a pay judgement and an honest conversation about weakness, because nobody describes what they cannot do to the person deciding their
What Performance Management Actually Is
The phrase covers four separate jobs sharing a calendar, and the annual cycle gets blamed for all four. The four jobs reviewed, how to tell which is broken
360 Degree Feedback: When It Helps and When It Hurts
Attach multi-source feedback to a decision and you stop collecting observations, you start collecting positioning.
Competency Frameworks: Describing What Good Looks Like
A framework that describes qualities rather than behaviour lets inconsistency look official. Five ways frameworks get built, common competency wording
Employee Feedback: Why Most of It Changes Nothing
Feedback fails for four reasons that have nothing to do with phrasing: it arrives late, names no instance, comes from the wrong person, or asks for something
Measuring Performance Without Distorting It
Every measure of an individual changes the work, because people optimise for what is counted and the counting is never the whole job.
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