Performance evaluations

Most organizations unintentionally employ punitive performance evaluations, antithetical to what we know about adult learning. Here are a few pieces that share reflections on how to shift that practice.

Performance Evaluation Form Template

This tool provides a template for an entire performance evaluation process, which you can customize for your organization & a suggested process to conduct evaluations.

The Management Center

Smart Managers Don’t Compare People to the “Average”

Discover why we should stop using averages to analyze individuals and should instead promote individuality and personalization in the workplace.

Harvard Business Review (HBR)

Let’s Not Kill Performance Evaluations Yet

Learn how Facebook provides performance evaluations for their employees in a way that builds a culture which recognizes and rewards growth.

Harvard Business Review (HBR)

The Performance Management Revolution

Assess whether your evaluation process is giving you what you need to solve current performance problems and to develop future talent.

Harvard Business Review (HBR)

SWITCH PATHWAYS

Pathway 1 | Preparing for Change

Pathway 2 | Awareness: Aligning Intention and Action

Pathway 3 | Analysis: Power

Pathway 4 | Action: Working on Structures

Pathway 5 | Action: Improving Team Health

Pathway 6 | Accountability: Testing Ideas

Pathway 7 | UWC Resources

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