Performance Reviews Are For Babies
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Performance Reviews Are For Babies By Dannielle Blumenthal, Ph.D. March 2014 | Creative Commons | Free To Reuse & Remix | All Opinions My Own Photo by Paparuzi via Flickr
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Old-style performance reviews decrease productivity. There is a better way, we know it and it's time to implement it: a conversation aimed at growing the learning capacity of the organization.
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Performance ReviewsAre For Babies
By Dannielle Blumenthal, Ph.D.March 2014 | Creative Commons | Free To Reuse & Remix | All Opinions My Own
Photo by Paparuzi via Flickr
Young People Get Rewards For Conformity.
“The management model that predominates in most organizations…was built to maximize efficiency by minimizing deviations from standard practices.”
– Gary Hamel, The Wall Street Journal, 4/6/2011
Photo by U.S. Dept. of Ed. via Flickr
Yet Creativity Is CriticalTo Address Our Complex
Problems“Today’s organizations must be more than well-oiled machines; they must also be endlessly adaptive and relentlessly innovative.”
– Gary Hamel, The Wall Street Journal, 4/6/2011
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Traditional Reviews Impede Creativity
By Reinforcing The Boss’s Power & Control
“The boss in the performance review thinks of himself or herself as the evaluator, and doesn't engage in teamwork with the subordinate.”
– Samuel A. CulbertThe Wall Street Journal, 10/20/08
Photo by Jan Tik via Flickr
But What If We Empowered Employees
To Speak Their Minds?• "In a bureaucracy, people
are afraid to speak out.”
• “This type of environment slows you down, and it doesn't improve the workplace.”
• "If you reward candor, you'll get it.”
– Jack Welch, Lecture, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 4/27/2005
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Empowered Staff Question Groupthink
Through “Double-Loop Learning”
Photo by Cattias.Photos via Flickr
Anyone can evolve a logo.
Few can question its basis.
Critical Thinking & Creativity Helps The Organization Learn To
Survive• “Leaders may think that getting
their organizations to learn is only a matter of articulating a clear vision, giving employees the right incentives, and providing lots of training.”
• “This assumption is not merely flawed—it’s risky….Each company must become a learning organization.”
• - David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino, Harvard Business Review, March 2008
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Therefore, Performance ManagementShould Be About Learning Together.
• “Step No. 1 in giving effective feedback almost always involves ‘active questioning’ inquiry.”
• “Themost significant issue at hand: ‘Given who I am and what I'm learning about this other individual, what's the best way for us to complement one another in getting work accomplished with excellence?’”
• “If in the process the other person decides to change and develop, so much the better.”– Samuel A. CulbertThe Wall Street Journal, 10/20/08
Photo by Peter Nijenjjuit via Flickr
We Don’t Need Babies At Work.We Need Thoughtful, Mature
Adults.
