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February 28, 2017 Use Peer Evaluations to Write Performance Reviews As a manager, it’s your job to make your employees’ performance reviews as objective and unbiased as possible. One way to make your reviews fairer is to ask for peer evaluations. Instead of writing the assessment solely from your perspective (and perhaps asking the reviewee to do a self-assessment), ask your team members to write evaluations of one another. They can then share their reviews with you and, if they’d like, with the person being evaluated. This will give you valuable input from the people who work closely with the reviewee every day. It will also help you temper any bias you might bring to the evaluation and encourage your team to be open and transparent with each other. Adapted from "Let's Not Kill Performance Evaluations Yet," by Lori Goler, Janelle Gale, and Adam Grant

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Weekly Hotlist: Companies Are Bad at Identifying High-Potential Employees

 

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February 27, 2017 Companies Are Bad at Identifying High-Potential Employees By Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman 40% of workers in high-potential programs don't belong there.

Meetings How to Handle Interrupting Colleagues by Francesca Gino Three tactics can help. Organizational culture "Poor Communication" Is Often a Symptom of a Different Problem by Art Markman It's a common organizational scapegoat. Developing employees How to Mentor a Perfectionist by W. Brad Johnson, David G. Smith It's really hard. Marketing What's the Value of a Like? by Leslie K. John, Daniel Mochon, Oliver Emrich, Janet Schwartz Social media endorsements don't work the way you might think. Gender Everyone Likes Flex Time, but We Punish Women Who Use It by David Burkus According to two studies. Government If Democrats Want to Challenge Trump, They Need a New Strategy by Gautam Mukunda And they have to start by prioritizing. Time management 3 Ways to Get More Done Right Now by Kabir Sehgal What to do when a deadline is looming. Leadership What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose by George Serafeim His 6,000-word treatise on Facebook's purpose sets a good example.

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