Rethinking Performance Management
Untapped Leaders
We are on a mission to uncover the untapped leadership that exists in individuals, on teams, and in organizations.
Performance reviews are an integral part of the work environment. As employees, we have all experienced being on the receiving end of a performance review. And as leaders, it’s often our job to give reviews to those we lead and manage.
For many of us, performance reviews carry a lot of baggage. They can be emotionally charged or overwhelming. For people who have dealt with financial instability, reviews can feel like an attack on their safety. And for leaders, performance reviews are our responsibility to provide intentional, insightful, and unbiased feedback — which can be difficult when we don’t examine and analyze the current systems.
In our workshop on?making performance reviews work for you, Bea — a People Ops and DEIB Strategist — took us through many of the common pitfalls of performance management and how those pitfalls impact leaders and employees of color. We learned that so often much of the common negative feedback to employees is management training, communications, or systems issues. And, as Bea explained, “The systems and the training decks are engineered to make it seem like you’re doing something wrong”.
Here’s the truth: performance reviews, like many other systems we exist and navigate within, are designed to work against us — the employees. And as Untapped Leaders, those mechanics can be doubly harmful. What true performance management?should?look like is an opportunity to ensure you’re receiving (or providing) the feedback, coaching, and development for growth.
Today’s newsletter is an invitation to examine your experiences with performance management regardless of which side of the fence you currently find yourself on. You may find, like one workshop attendee, that as a leader you can finally put words to the feelings you’ve experienced and think about how to move forward differently.
– Jenny
CEO and Founder
PS. Applications to our inaugural?Untapped Leadership Cohort?close May 15th. Join us for a?Q&A session?this Wednesday, May 10th, to learn more!
Write.
An opportunity to dig into what we might be missing in our leadership.
What negative feedback have you received or provided that is worth a closer inspection? In what ways might information have been missing, biased, or provided an inaccurate story?
Wonder.
An opportunity to reimagine deeply embedded leadership structures and practices.
How can you protect yourself (mentally and emotionally) during the performance management cycle? What ways can you advocate for yourself and your team around performance reviews?
Witness.
An opportunity to learn from overlooked perspectives.
“Performance reviews require, in order to not be harmful, an underlying framework that makes clear what everyone’s job is, how they’re supposed to do it and in what amount of time, and what they’re level of responsibility is.”
— Bea, People Ops and DEIB Strategist & UL Facilitator
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