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Continuous feedback

Disadvantages of 1on1:

  • Not formalized
  • Not measurable
  • Lack of visibility
  • Not clear how expectations matches between company and employee
  • Lack of feedback from manager

Disadvantages of 360review:

  • Lack of feedback
  • Hard to have suitable long term goals
  • Not transparent
  • Painful

Every All Hands sessions
we have complains
about retaining talents

According to Gallup, only 14% of employees strongly agree their performance reviews inspire them to improve.

Idea of continuous review. Points

Points Meaning
0Under expectation
1Expected
2Above expectation
+1Manager can boost points

Idea of continuous review. Matrix

Each 1on1 manager and employee matching their points
for the the work performed past month

Manager 0 1 2
Employee 0bad++
1-Ok+
2--?

Idea of continuous review. Cases

Case Meaning
badBoth knows that performance was bad
OkExpected performance
?Why is it both excepted that
-Lack of vision from employee about delivered value
+Manager power to provide positive feedback

Besides of that as sign of recognition
manager can provide additional point +1

Idea of continuous review. Cycle

Each cycle we have review points for a cycle as
[0..2]+[0..2]+[0..2]=[0..6+]

Points Meaning Benefit
0 It’s super bad we need to pay extra attention Review required
1-2 Slightly under expectations None
3 Expected performance Base benefit
4 Surpass performance High tier benefit
5+ Outgrown position Reason for review and probably promotion

Outcome of Continuous Review:

  • Measurable Step by Step Review
  • Fast feedback
  • Tooling for manager to give feedback by cycle results
  • Logic of review became more transparent
  • Less pain with annual review
  • Same promotions as before but more agile and dynamic
  • Better vision of performance changes
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