Was everything 'awesome' with your mid-year performance appraisal?

Ok, you have our apologies that you may now have the dreadful Lego movie theme tune ringing through your ears, but when you carry out performance appraisals, do you come over as sincere or superficial? Are you aware of how you come across?

That is the crux of what makes the activity valuable exercise.

We speak to hundreds of HR professionals every year about the effectiveness of their annual performance appraisal, and the most common complaint that they have is that too many managers treat the activity as a paper exercise, and are simply going through the motions. Here are some of their top complaints.

How to recognise an ‘awful’ annual performance appraisal: