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Agile India 2016 | Bangalore | Mar-15-2016
Fabiola Eyholzer | @FabiolaEyholzer | #AgileIndia2016
Workshop: From Traditional Performance
Management to Iterative Performance Flow
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How did your last performance review make you feel?
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Performance Management is currently the most
scrutinized of all HR processes
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Many companies are eliminating employee appraisals –
including 10% of Fortune 500 – and more are to follow
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Sources: Performance Mgmt for the 21st C organization, Edie L. Goldberg SHRM Jul-152015 | NeuroLeadership Institute SHRM Jul-2015 | Dread Performance Reviews? This Company's Getting Rid Of Them, Dominique Mosbergen, The Huffington Post, Jul-2015 | Why GE had to kill its annual performance reviews after more than three decades, Max
Nisen, Quartz, Aug-2015 | In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings, Lillian Cunningham, The Washington Post, Jul-2015 | Why Employee Performance Reviews Are So Old School, Millie Dent, The Fiscal Times, Jul-2015 | The Push Against Performance Reviews, Vauhini Vara, The New Yorker, Jul-2015
10%
of Fortune
500

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It’s high time for change: Performance Management has
its roots in the 1950s post war era
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Performance Management is (used to be) considered best
practice …
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91%of companies

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… and the process is fairly standard – regardless of size or
industry
Source: Mercer: Global Performance Management Survey Report, Mercer | SHRM: HR Professionals’’ Perceptions about PM effectiveness
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Performance Rating 89%
5 Point Scale 57%
30%
16%
95% 93%
Formal
Goal Setting
Year-End
Review
Mid-Year
Review
Pay for Performance 89%
Forced Ranking

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We invest billions into this system
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Sources: Harvard Business Review April 2015: Reinventing Performance Management by Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall | The Washington Post Jul-21-2015: In big
move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings by Lillian Cunningham
Deloitte was spending close to
2 million hours a year on evaluations.
A company of 10,000 employees spends about
$35 million per year on annual reviews.

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But how satisfied are we with the investment?
SHRM Survey: HR Professionals’’ Perceptions about PM effectiveness (Oct-21-2014) | Office Vibe "13 Disappointing Performance Appraisals Facts You Really Need To Know",
Sep-2014 | Corporate Executive Board 2014
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95%dissatisfied
managers
58%say doesn’t drive
engagement
2%of HR attests
grade A
30%say it decreases
performance
59%employees say
waste of time
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We invest billions into a system that is clearly
underperforming
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With such low ROI levels, why do so many companies
stick with it? Why the reluctance to change?
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The tides are shifting and agile teams | organizations are
at the forefront
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Agile teams take it one step further and really push the
reset button
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Source: Just Leading Solutions LLC, Author Series

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Agile teams bring a new mindset to Performance
Management
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Source: Professor Nick Holley, Henley Business School, HR Tech World Oct-2015
process  conversation
historical  forward looking
negative  positive
individual  collective
rating performance  improving performance
measuring the past  focusing on the future
addressing weaknesses  building on strengths

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What are some typical challenges to solve
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How do you estimate
individual
contribution in
teams?
How do you ensure
feedback without
employee appraisals?
How do you pay for
performance without
ratings?
How do you
deal with low
and under
performer?
What are the new
yardsticks for pay and
promotion?
How do you
remunerate fairly and
individually without
appraisals?

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Let us tap into all the ideas, experiences, and knowledge
in the room
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And that is how we will do it
• Market Place of Ideas
• Present challenges
• Twitter votes
• Decide on sessions
• 10 minutes
• 2-3 Breakout Sessions
• Interactive discussion
• Moderated by challenger
• 15-20 minutes
• Solution Exchange
• Present key ideas/findings
• 15 minutes
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Market Place of Ideas

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Break Out Session

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Solution Exchange

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Thank you!
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fabiola.eyholzer@justleadingsolutions.com
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@FabiolaEyholzer
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