Performance review overhaul
Do you dread your performance review? Do you question its authenticity and impact on your team? Do you find it outdated and meaningless? According to research, only 23% of HR pros surveyed say they’re satisfied with their organizations’ performance evaluations. This week, Deloitte decided they had enough and overhauled the structure of their performance reviews. An article from The Washington Post highlights the new process:
“Deloitte’s new approach, which it has piloted among roughly 10 percent of employees so far, would do away with “cascading objectives,” those nonsensical attempts to create similar goals for everyone in the organization. It would also ditch laborious 360-degree reviews, in which everyone from managers to peers to underlings weigh in on one person’s performance. After realizing the company spent 2 million collective hours each year assigning numerical ratings to each employee, it also looked to eliminate those.
Deloitte decided to do away with formal rankings and instead ask each employee four questions:
- Given what I know of this person’s performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus.
- Given what I know of this person’s performance, I always want him or her on my team.
- This person is at risk for low performance.
- This person is ready for promotion today.
Deloitte is a trusted advisor to organizations of all sizes. It will be interesting to see how this shift occurs in HR departments, especially learning, development, and performance functions!
Huh? Poor Performing Employees Use Internet Explorer?
Cornerstone OnDemand claims to have the research to back this up. An article from The Atlantic argues that employees using Firefox or Chrome perform better. The article states:
“But in the world of Big Data, everything means something. Cornerstone OnDemand, a company that sells software that helps employers recruit and retain workers, analyzed data on about 50,000 people who took its 45-minute online job assessment (a thorough personality test) and were successfully hired at a firm using its software. These candidates ended up working customer service and sales jobs for telecommunications, retail, and hospitality companies.
Cornerstone’s researchers found that people who took the test on a non-default browser, such as Firefox or Chrome, stayed about 15 percent longer at their jobs than those who stuck with Safari or Internet Explorer. They performed better on the job as well. (These statistics were roughly the same for both Mac and PC users.)”
Enough already! Stop sending late-night emails
There’s a difference between high-performers and workaholics. Intentional or not, sending late-night emails keeps your employees chained to work 24/7. According to a new article published by Harvard Business Review, being “always on” diminishes creativity, productivity, and performance. That makes sense. We all need some distance away from work to avoid getting burnt out. Check out the rest of the article, which features tips on how to help your employees apply their brainpower and attention meaningfully!
That’s all for now!