There’s a problem with the annual performance review, and the best evidence of that is the fact that you dread doing them or just keep avoiding them entirely. Let me propose a much simpler approach—hundreds of my clients are doing this now and would never go back to the traditional method.
Performance reviews are necessary. They’re a critical step in the process of building and maintaining a team. They don’t work on their own, though, so you might do better if you consider them as the fifth step in a five-part process of management.
