How to Structure Performance Reviews That Are Celebrated

“Think about performance reviews as an opportunity to have a strategic conversation, to align a colleague’s performance with the ultimate contribution that they’re hired to make in the organization.” – Kari Granger 

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The Recap

For many, performance reviews are nothing more than an end of year obligation that devolves into uncomfortable conversations about performance gaps and compensation. However, if we structure them to take us step-by-step into aligning with one another in four key areas, performance reviews become a treasured opportunity for both colleagues and a huge opportunity to leverage performance toward a shared vision. Join Kari Granger and Paul Adams as they dissect how organizations can utilize performance reviews as a tool to acknowledge contribution, identify the relevant domains of evaluation, assess performance impact, and partner for future development.  

Tweetable Moments

“Studies show that thirty-five percent of performance feedback results in positive behavior modification, which means sixty-five percent of performance feedback results in neutral or negative behavior modification.”

“Performance reviews, if not well crafted, can feel like I’m coming in to hear the ultimate judgement of whether or not I’m a good or bad person.”

“Performance reviews are an awesome opportunity to see the contribution that you’re making in service of the greater goal or the greater outcome, or the greater vision. That, in and of itself, can be really fulfilling to people.”

“Look together. In a true conversation, we should expect a ‘conversion.’ Do not expect to leave thinking in the same way that you did going into the conversation.”

“People are relating to their performance reviews as a dictation of past transgressions, if you will, instead of a conversation about future performance.”

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