Should You Speak Up When It Comes To Performance Appraisal: Why You Should Not Be An Introvert

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Should You Speak Up When It Comes To Performance Appraisal

Why You Should Not Be An Introvert

First of all, I’m not surprised. In Andy Grove’s book, “High Output Management”, he has a chapter on performance appraisal. And he asked his teams to review and analyzed the performance reviews they have received. Here are the results from the analyses of performance reviews for rock stars and poor performers.

• Performance ratings were mostly very high for the achievers
• The reviews for the rock stars were well written and much better than the average reviews.
• Mostly focused on what the achievers had done well in the previous year.
• Very little on what the high performers have to do to improve their performance or even maintain the current level.
• But for poor performers, a lot more is focused on what the subordinate can do to improve performance and going into details on corrective action programs. Almost a disproportionate of time was spent on what marginal employees can do to meet the minimum standard. Read More...