get rid of performance appraisals
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Performance Reviews are based on completely wrong assumptions. Companies still think that Performance Reviews are great tools to provide feedback, to set goals and to improve the individuals. All this is pure nonsense and in reality Performance Reviews are a cancer for our companies and they need to be removed.TRANSCRIPT
Performance Appraisals
Are incompatible with Agile
Mindset
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A Mandatory Process
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That is Specific for a Period of Time
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Where all or a group of employees
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Work Performance
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Is Rated or Judged
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By a person other than the rated employee
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And the Results are kept by the organization
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Let´s go back in time
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1900’s
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Today´s World
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Let´s see what research found out
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Society for Human Resources Management
90% of performance appraisals systems are
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not successful
95% of H.R professionals said they were
very unsatisfied with their performance management systems
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Why?
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Why?@lgoncalves1979
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Why?@lgoncalves1979
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We still use this…
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Practice
Because it serves multiple purposes
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Company Improvement (Goals and Targets)
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“Give a target to a manager and he will do anything to achieve it even if he destroy the company on the way”
by W. Edwards. Deming
Feedback & Communication
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Coaching - Personal Development
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Compensation and Bonus
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Promotions
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Legal Documentation
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And companies do not know how to detach them
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Why Performance Appraisals are broken
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I want to tell you a story
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• One of the worst factories in the USA
• 20% of people did not show up on
daily basis
• Consumption of alcohol and drugs
was high
New United Motor Manufacturing
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• 85% of the initial work force was re-hired
• Extensive TPS training provided
• 400 trainers sent to USA
• 600 workers sent to Japan
• 1 year = least amount of defects and lowest cost of
production in whole USA
• Less than 3% of people did not show up
• Alcohol and drug consumption was drastically reduced
GM and Toyota
We work in Complex Systems
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Individual Performance
Coens, Tom; Jenkins, Mary (2002-10-12). Abolishing Performance Appraisals
Stop!!!
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PA fails as a Rating Device
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Categorization and Stereotype Tendencies
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People-I-Like-Favoritism
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Gender, Race, and Age Bias
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PA fails as a Rating Device
We cannot avoid this simply because we are:
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The worst is still to come…
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Performance Appraisals Causes Sub Optimization
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“You can destroy a corporation by improving its individual parts. Try putting a Rolls Royce engine in a Hyundai”
by Russel Ackoff
Performance Appraisals destroy innovation in companies
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Performance Appraisals destroy improvement efforts in our
companies
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Performance Appraisals Punish People
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Performance Appraisals crash intrinsic motivation
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I AM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ASK YOU TO DELIVER 10 STORIES NEXT
SPRINT...
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Performance Appraisals Builds fear
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Performance Appraisals demolishes teamwork
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Where to go instead
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There is no Magic Formula…
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Get Rid of Performance Appraisals
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Get rid of monetary incentives
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Start with Safe Experiments
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Organizational Improvement (Goals and Targets)
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Company Improvement (Goals and Targets)
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• Create a clear vision where the company wants to go
• Create a clear purpose of what the company wants to
achieve
• Communicate a concise list of organizational goals
• Let people to create their own goals aligned with the
big picture
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Feedback & Communication
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Feedback & Communication
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• Scale Retrospectives on whole organization
• Information radiators
• Feedback Sessions
• Feedback walls
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Coaching - Personal Development
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Personal Development
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• Create a culture of continuous education
• Communities of Practice within the company
• Dojos ( Coaching, Coding, Testing, etc)
• 1:1 Mentoring programs from different
colleagues, within different areas
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Compensation
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Compensation
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• Do Research on the market and decide
which part of the market you want to
belong to
• Increase salaries based on inflation + %
• Make salaries transparent
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Promotions
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Promotions
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• Follow a normal interview process
• Hire companies that are specialized in
recruitment
• People can only be promoted if “elected”
by peers
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Legal Documentation
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Legal Documentation
• Do it only when mandatory, e.g. trial periods
• Most of the cases you do not require to have
documents for legal reasons:
– you can use email
– colleague feedback
– customer feedback
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I have a dream…
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I want you…
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To be part of this dream
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Let´s create a movement
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Purpose
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Mastery
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Autonomy
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Because…
“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride”
Thank you
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