http://www.corporateidealist.com/2009/10/playing-to-your-strengths/ Hope for Hardworking Heroes Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:17:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.corporateidealist.com/2009/10/playing-to-your-strengths/comment-page-1/#comment-1868 kidd redd Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:13:37 +0000 http://www.corporateidealist.com/?p=876#comment-1868 A consultant once told me, "Find out what you do well and do it; and find out what you don't do well and don't do it." This why I have always believed the "performance review" as executed by most companies/organizations is poppycock. Certainly, folks need to know how they're doing. But invariably, PR's get boiled down to "scores" on some sort of "competencies" list, instead of meaningful conversations about what folks are doing well, what's fulfilling, and so on. A natural reaction to a low "score" is to want to improve it. It rarely occurs to proponents of these types of reviews that the low scores themselves may be meaningless. A consultant once told me, “Find out what you do well and do it; and find out what you don’t do well and don’t do it.” This why I have always believed the “performance review” as executed by most companies/organizations is poppycock. Certainly, folks need to know how they’re doing. But invariably, PR’s get boiled down to “scores” on some sort of “competencies” list, instead of meaningful conversations about what folks are doing well, what’s fulfilling, and so on. A natural reaction to a low “score” is to want to improve it. It rarely occurs to proponents of these types of reviews that the low scores themselves may be meaningless.

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