99 Employees Out of 100 Hate Performance Reviews
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by Frank Roche
C’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”?
Chris Ferdinandi – Renegade HR
Nov 11th, 2009
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.
Bill Strahan
Nov 11th, 2009
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.
Frank Roche
Nov 11th, 2009
@Bill You can’t get comments as good as this one anywhere. That’s a piece of art in itself.
Frank Roche
Nov 11th, 2009
@Chris, you got it, brother. Talk to me every day…leave me alone on performance review day.