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Performance Reviews are incompatible with the Agile MindSet by Luis Goncalves

Performance Reviews are incompatible with the Agile MindSet by Luis Goncalves

Have you had blood pressure and heart beat increase with the proximity of the annual performance review rituals? Do you get the chills just before your "performance improvement plan" meeting with your boss? Have you had a poor review because you were not able to perform how you boss wanted, but in reality you could not have done anything different?

Performance Reviews are based in 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.

Come to see my talk and you will understand how Performance Reviews are completely incompatible with Agile Mindset and I will explain what can be done using examples of companies from all over the world that successfully tackled this problem.

Agile Latvia

April 26, 2014
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  1. Making Your Company Strong, Agile and Lean
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  2. Luis Gonçalves
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    Esther
    Derby
    Foreword
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  3. Performance Appraisals
    Are incompatible with Agile Mindset
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  4. A Mandatory Process
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  5. That is Specific for a Period of Time
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  6. Where all or a group of employees
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  7. Work Performance
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  8. Is Rated or Judged
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  9. By a person other than the rated
    employee
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  10. And the Results are kept by the
    organization
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    By Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins

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  11. Lets go back in time
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  12. 1900’s
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  13. Nature of the workers
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  14. Todays World
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  15. Nature of the workers
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  16. Lets see what research found out
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  17. Society for Human Resources
    90%
    of performance reviews systems are
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    not successful

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  18. 95%
    of H.R professionals said they were very
    unsatisfied with their performance management
    systems
    Aon Consulting and the Society of Human Resources Management
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  19. Why?
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  20. Why?
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  21. Why?
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  22. We still use this…
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  23. No Feedback
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  24. No Increases
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  25. No Help to become better
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  27. Now I want to tell you a story
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  28. We work in Complex Systems
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  29. Normal System
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  30. Individual Performance
    Coens, Tom; Jenkins, Mary (2002-10-12). Abolishing Performance Appraisals

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  31. Stop!!!
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  32. PA fails as a Rating Device
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  33. Categorization and Stereotype
    Tendencies
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  34. People-I-Like-Favoritism
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  35. Gender, Race, and Age Bias
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  36. PA fails as a Rating Device
    We cannot avoid this simply because we are:
    HUMAN
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  37. The worst is still to come…
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  38. Improvement (Goals &Targets)
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  39. Feedback && Communication
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  40. Compensation
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  41. Coaching and Guidance
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  42. Personal Development
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  43. Legal Documentation
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  44. Agile Thinking Performance Appraisals
    Empower People Forced Process
    Collaborative Teams Individual Accountability
    Unleash Intrinsic Motivation Motivate with Incentives
    Respect Diversity One size fit all
    Emerging Structures Controlling structures
    Just in Time Annual event Approach
    Improve Process Rely on Inspections/MBO
    Improve the whole system Improve the parts
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  45. Deming summarizes everything…
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  46. Nourishes short-term performance
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  47. Annihilates long-term planning
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  48. Builds fear
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  49. Demolishes teamwork
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  50. Nourishes rivalry and politics.
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  51. Where to go instead
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  52. There is no Magic Formula…
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  53. Organizational
    • Drop Organizational Mandated Rating
    • Create a variety of freely chosen delivery systems
    • Make Goals visible to everyone (Organizational Goals
    and Individual Goals)
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  54. Leadership
    • Create a clear vision where the company wants to go
    • Create a clear purpose of what the company wants to
    achieve
    • Create a culture of continuous feedback
    • Create a culture of continuous education
    • Communicate a concise list of organizational goals
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  55. Training
    • System Thinking
    • Feedback mechanisms
    • PDCA tool
    • Communication
    • Motivation
    • How to promote and provide Interesting work
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  56. I want you…
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  57. To help me…
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  58. To create a movement
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  59. Purpose
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  60. Mastery
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  61. Autonomy
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  62. Be a Beta Reader: http://eepurl.com/QGxfX
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  63. References

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