Is It Time for Performance Reviews to Be Put Out to Pasture? Leadership Expert and Author Ashley Goodall Explains

From an employee standpoint, constant upheaval and the specter of having to sit down with the boss multiple times a year to be graded via performance review is a recipe for organizational disaster. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, former Cisco and Deloitte HR executive and author, Ashley Goodall joins Justin Louis to discuss his latest book, “The Problem with Change,” and offers practical solutions to help your business understand what people need at work in order to contribute their best.

In this episode:

• We talk about Ashley’s book and how constant change stymies the process of actually achieving organizational goals.
• Ashley delves into why leaders need to get serious about understanding how their teams operate, especially what makes the best teams so good.
• He picks apart the performance review process and explains why regularly assigning a grade or number to an employee’s achievements has the opposite of the intended effect of boosting performance and morale.
• Ashley describes how HR has lost its way in today’s business ecosystem, explaining why leaders need to become more focused on the human aspect of “human resources.”

Listen to this episode on your favorite podcast platform:

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Where to find Ashley Goodall:

• Ashley’s website
• Ashley Goodall on LinkedIn
• Ashley’s book, “The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance”

Click or tap here to learn more about how Ashley Goodall provides leaders with strategies for rethinking the change process and performance evaluations that will build stronger teams, not disengaged employees.

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