Why everyone hates performance reviews

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Why everyone hates performance reviews

Performance review. Two words in office life that are often guaranteed to make employees and managers alike roll their eyes in and sigh loudly.

Everyone hates performance review season, and I mean everyone.

As a formal process of evaluating an employee’s value to a business, the performance review (PR) has been around for a few decades now and yet with each passing year I read exactly the same articles and books lamenting its shortcomings.

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Why do teams underperform?

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Why do teams underperform?

One of the issues facing business leaders – especially in these uncertain times – is what causes teams to underperform and what they can do to tackle the problem.

There are some things within your business that are, by and large, entirely reliable and which you can depend on to run at a level that is at least acceptable, if not better: utilities, network infrastructure and telephony, to give three easy examples, all run as you expect them to most of the time.

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Are you ready for the end of furlough?

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Are you ready for the end of furlough?

As I write this, the furlough scheme has just over a month to run. After that, the central support for businesses to retain staff through the Government paying up to 80 per cent of an employee’s salary will come to a stop.

This will be replaced by a different scheme, but it will be one that is more limited in scope and which effectively filters out those sectors that are likely to be most at risk as the country steels itself for the economic consequences of the Covid pandemic.

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What’s the best way to manage communication around redundancy?

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What’s the best way to manage communication around redundancy?

In my last blog, I talked about how important it is for employers to be fair in how they deal with staff who are facing redundancy. Making someone compulsorily redundant is never a pleasant process, but it’s made an awful lot easier if you put in the effort to get it right.

At the time of writing, the end of the Government-backed furlough scheme is just 47 days away, leaving businesses who may be considering redundancies with limited time to put a fair and reasonable plan into place.

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