Appraisals are indeed a waste of time if what you would rather do is fill in paperwork (and complain about it) than talk to somebody eyeball to eyeball, motivating, acknowledging, coaching and training them face to face. Here we suggest a way you can scrap your appraisal system! What do you think when you hear the word ‘appraisal’? Probably some version of ‘boring’, ‘meaningless’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘bureaucratic’, ‘time-consuming’ etc. Well, we… read more →
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘appraisal’? I suspect it will be some version of ‘boring’, ‘meaningless’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘bureaucratic’, ‘time-consuming’ etc. Well, we agree with you. And yet we spend an awful lot of time in our consultancy work encouraging organisations to plan work, set goals, have regular one-to-one meetings between managers and employees, and conduct performance reviews. So what’s the difference? ‘Appraisal’ in its traditional… read more →