{"id":51835,"date":"2015-07-24T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/doing-away-with-the-annual-review.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:47:10","slug":"doing-away-with-the-annual-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/doing-away-with-the-annual-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Doing away with the annual review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would be whole-heartedly behind this, if an accountable structure is set up to encourage timely, standard, understandable feedback (in both directions). For too many people, though, &quot;no annual performance review&quot; is likely to translate into &quot;I have no idea what my boss thinks of my work, even once a year.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-leadership\/wp\/2015\/07\/21\/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zvVAa_Fbq77p0nkTlTaLF-RrdtnKw35DvX4FC86fsFhfIDHSAc9O6X-HMkQq8rn6YC2zbkTy_LxEFvABR0ZadYy838mwReGc6TcdkZV_EKkOKGelRYtAy9KIhgNXew1Sz1C5z5_eBe-OC_Jyj135T9uOF4hnLhVMLvxo3jryhyxj_MNwL62mg0EMZlZkp5A=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-leadership\/wp\/2015\/07\/21\/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings\/'>In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe firm tells The Washington Post that it will abandon its old system for all 330,000 employees, starting in September.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iCpqVVw21rx'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be whole-heartedly behind this, if an accountable structure is set up to encourage timely, standard, understandable feedback (in both directions). For too many people, though, &quot;no annual performance review&quot; is likely to translate into &quot;I have no idea what my boss thinks of my work, even once a year.&quot; In big move, Accenture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/doing-away-with-the-annual-review.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doing away with the annual review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5068,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/07\/day_late_but_no.html","url_meta":{"origin":51835,"position":0},"title":"Day late but no dollars short","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Nov-03 7:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Got my annual review. 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