It’s time to ditch the annual performance review and replace it with something better. With the typical review process, most employees have clarity on their performance just one or two days per year – if they’re lucky. And so many employees in the workforce dread the experience, which typically begins with a required self-assessment of performance – entering a year’s worth of accomplishments into what feels like a black hole of an HR system. After submitting their self-assessment, their manager invites them to sit down face-to-face to review what they put in the system. The performance review box is checked, and everyone moves on until next year. This impersonal and infrequent method of assessing performance is misleading at best and unfair, biased, and disengaging at worst.
