The Compass
Reflections, strategies, and real leadership insights to help you navigate change, challenge, and growth.
Performance Reviews Are Broken. So Let’s Fix Them
I’ve been through more performance reviews than I care to admit.
Every year, it was the same routine; a polite one-hour autopsy of the past year, filled with vague feedback, forced ratings, and the obligatory “areas for development” that no one ever followed up on.
It always felt more like a ceremony than a conversation.
So, let’s call it: performance reviews are broken. But instead of just complaining about it, here’s how to rebuild something that actually works.
The Real Reason Teams Break Down (It’s Not What You Think)
Your team is failing, and you know it. The deadlines are slipping. The energy is gone. The talent you fought to hire is mentally checking out. And while you're busy crafting the next all-hands speech about "getting back on track," your best people are already updating their LinkedIn profiles.
You want to blame market conditions. Remote work. Generational differences. The economy. Anything but the person staring back at you in the mirror.
But here's the brutal truth that's going to hurt: Your team isn't broken because they're incompetent. They're broken because you are.