Many Millennials were raised during the Self Esteem Movement. There was no second place in their parents’ eyes. Everyone’s a winner.
Now those Millennials are getting performance reviews. Here’s 10 Things Millennials Might Say at Their Performance Reviews*:

You mean I don’t get a trophy just for participating?

My parents won’t let you give me anything but an [...]

We got two backbreaking snows in Philadelphia within five days. While I was in Chicago on Tuesday morning in the middle of a huge snowstorm, I texted my wife: “See if you can hire someone to do our driveway.”
Our backs were sore from digging out the two feet of snow we got over the weekend. [...]

Read the first five paragraphs of After Bankruptcy, G.M. Struggles to Shed a Legendary Bureaucracy. Weep if, like many companies, your performance management “system” is a joke.
If you’re over-engineering your performance review process, do the right thing and stop. Today.
Want to play in the big leagues? Make performance management make sense. Help your company make [...]

SHRM’s leadership shines bright again with this offering of the week at the SHRM Bookstore: Ready-To-Use Performance Appraisals.
I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
If you’re a manager, there’s nothing more important than managing. That means giving guidance. It means telling people what you know. It means hiring people who are smarter and more talented [...]

I’m curious: Is there anyone out there who looks forward to their annual performance reviews? Let’s hear it. And if you detest annual performance reviews, let’s hear that too.