For the next couple of days, I'll be taking a break from my current mayhem at work to get involved in something a little bit different.
Last year, we introduced 360 degree appraisals for our senior management team and it was deemed successful enough to roll out to us lesser mortal managers this year. For those who aren't familiar with the process, instead of a one-on-one appraisal with your boss, this entails completing a questionnaire to appraise yourself, then the same form is sent to your line manager, your direct reports and 6 peers of your choice. Have you any idea how difficult it is trying to find 6 people peeing all at once? Ahem.
Well tomorrow is the start of our 2-day feedback session and I must admit I'm quite intrigued. I think I've a pretty good idea what my boss thinks of me and I'd like to think I'm in touch with my team's opinion, but I made a deliberate point of selecting peers from a broad spectrum across the business to ensure I got a balanced perspective. Sure, it would have been easy enough to pick out half a dozen workmates who were guaranteed to say something nice, but where's the fun in that?
Everyone I've spoken to who has been on the sessions so far said it was quite an enlightening experience and were surprised just how much they got out of it, so by this time tomorrow I will know first hand and I'll share my experiences accordingly. Maybe.
As I've always said, I wouldn't be paranoid if everyone didn't have it in for me...
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We had that system for many years and then it was abandoned last year in order to cut down on the "paperwork". Also I think no one ever sent a review to someone who wouldn't say something nice - so it was always a little bit bias. At least it now saves me filling in 10 reviews a year and I can now put that extra time to more productive things such as reading your blog....
What did they say? I'm in suspense.
Pete - Glad to be of service!
Cherrypie - update(ish) on following post
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