Dump the one-shot Performance Appraisal session
I have joined the ‘Dump the Annual Performance reviews’ brigade I have just completed my annual performance review session. Often my colleagues cannot understand why I would insist on having a lengthy session. “I just want to get it over and done with”, is a common refrain I hear. However, I take my performance appraisal seriously because I believe that I am accountable to myself, the people I serve and the organization I belong to. I would thus make these sessions work for me. However, these once-off sessions become ends in themselves and this is what is becoming more of an Achilles Heel for me. I now too believe that it is time to dump the Annual performance review system in its present form. Annual Performance reviews are a fallacy Most of us only engage in the annual performance review sessions because our line managers have to comply with the organisation’s policy on employee appraisal processes. In fact, I suspect many of them would dearly love to scrap this process ...