Performance management is unpopular these days,especially the toothless and demotivating Whitehall model. Here are four ways to make it more effectiveWhen you’re a child, receiving clear, and obvious judgment is a daily experience. School reports,test scores, sporting results – your performance, or in absolute terms and relative to your peers,is set out for all to see in red pen, gold stars and player-of-the-match trophies. One of the under-appreciated privileges of adulthood is that people don’t often tell you that you’re nonsense at stuff. The annual appraisal ritual interrupts this blissful ignorance of our failings. Perhaps childhood trauma is why some people dislike appraisals so much.
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Source: theguardian.com