EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS REPORT!

I was sent this wonderful Mind Gym report this week and I wish I had read it when I started my career because everyone should read it...

We all know that "performance management can dampen the mood of anyone you’d actually want to employ and that the hours spent completing appraisal, self-appraisal and 360 feedback forms; sitting in talks about how others are and should be rated; taking part in what is often an excruciating annual review are enough to crush anyone’s soul." It argues that in addition to distracting leaders from more worthwhile activities performance management has the potential for doing harm as formal reviews that focus on weaknesses reduce performance by up to 27%. It suggests that managing a colleague’s performance through an annual conversation is like managing your marriage through your anniversary and no wonder the yearly appraisal has become to recruiters what Christmas is to divorce lawyers!

We all know that there are "plenty of proven ways to get people to perform at the top of their game, they just aren’t based in process design, inventory management, forensic metrics or sparkling new IT. They are built on the science of human behaviour: psychology" and Mind Gym’s psychologists have identified what they believe are the six conditions which have the most impact on building an environment which help us perform at the top of our game.

They argue that the implications for managers are...

 The report suggest that we should all...