Get rid of the ridiculous and unfair quarterly performance reviews. There are two fatal flaws to the reviews. The first one goes back to a feedback mechanism they use, which although useful in other contexts, makes no sense in this case. In meetings, they like ask a question and have people do a finger-shoot, where 5 fingers is best and 1 finger is lowest, but to avoid fence-sitting, they say "no threes." That's fine for a finger shoot, but how it got applied of performance reviews is beyond me! So basically, as a manager, you're asked to rate your employee's performance on a scale of 1-5, but you can't give anyone a 3--even though arguably most people would be a 3. So you're often put in the position of giving someone a 2, who really is not a "D" player. Worse, they then force you to rank everyone in the department. In my case, I was one of 12 people in a department but only 1 person could be #1 (in the rankings), while we basically had to pick someone to get the lowest ranking
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