Appraisals are dead. Long live the conversation.

This isn’t another article about why annual appraisals don’t work. There’s been enough written about that already. In case you missed it, they don’t improve performance and everybody hates them! So the big questions is, what to do instead?

As a replacement for appraisals, leading academics and organisations have endorsed and implemented performance management approaches based on regular, meaningful, performance and development conversations, combined with real-time feedback.

But most organisations are yet to make the shift away from appraisals. Why?

Fear and Confusion