5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2020 Edition (5 Books)

Reinventing Performance Management

by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

AT DELOITTE WE’RE REDESIGNING our performance management system. This may not surprise you. Like many other companies, we realize that our current process for evaluating the work of our people—and then training them, promoting them, and paying them accordingly—is increasingly out of step with our objectives. In a public survey Deloitte conducted recently, more than half the executives questioned (58%) believe that their current performance management approach drives neither employee engagement nor high performance. They, and we, are in need of something nimbler, real-time, and more individualized—something squarely focused on fueling performance in the future rather than ...