99 Employees Out of 100 Hate Performance Reviews
Nov 11C’mon, SHRM, don’t serve me softballs. I I got an email today titled, “Performance Review Best Sellers.” Among the best sellers? Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews.
Here’s a phrase for HR people and managers who use “Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews”: Get out.
If you don’t know how to talk to people. If you don’t know what motivates people. If you don’t know how to manage. What in the hell are you doing in HR or management?
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Here’s a little statistic: We have a 10.4% unemployment in the U.S. That’s over 10 million people. How many of those people who are out of work are saying to themselves, “I want to get back to work so that I can get a performance review”?
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Frank Roche
Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.
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The irony, of course, is that people want feedback. They just don’t want a performance review, because it’s not a good form of feedback.
@Chris, you got it, brother. Talk to me every day…leave me alone on performance review day.
Writing a well done performance appraisal, is like writing a really good love letter, or the perfect, Dear John letter.
You can’t buy that kind of writing from someone else.
@Bill You can’t get comments as good as this one anywhere. That’s a piece of art in itself.