Performance Reviews are Underperforming. What Should Replace Them?

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For years, observers of workplace culture have predicted the death of the annual performance review, calling it ineffective, unpopular and often biased. But some companies are trying to make it better. Does more frequent, real-time feedback sound good to you… or the use of AI to monitor your productivity? We’ll talk with workplace experts about the future of performance reviews and hear from you. What do you think are the best ways to evaluate employees in today’s changing workplace? Guests: Lori Nishiura Mackenzie, co-founder, Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab Josh Bersin, corporate talent, human resources and technology analyst; author, "Irresistible: The Seven Secrets of the World's Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Coming up on forum, performance reviews are underperforming,
0:56.4	and for years, observers of workplace culture have predicted the death of the annual ritual,
1:01.4	calling it ineffective, unpopular, and often biased. But some companies are trying to make it better.
1:07.3	Does more constant real-time feedback sound good to you? Or the use of AI to monitor
1:11.9	your emails or productivity? We'll talk with workplace experts about the future of performance
1:16.8	reviews and hear from you. If annual reviews are broken, what do you think should replace
1:22.4	them? Join us.
1:37.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:41.9	Our annual performance reviews the best way to evaluate and motivate talent. Or are they, quote, the dumbest thing that American companies
1:44.5	do, according to Dan Walker, former chief talent officer at Apple, who ended them decades ago?
1:50.5	Matthew Boyle of the Wall Street Journal described them as a time-consuming, backward-looking
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