What do you hate the most about work in general, or your job in particular?
The crappy hour long commute to the office just to sit in a cube and spend all day communicating electronically with your colleagues, thinking all the while, 'I could have done all this sitting home in my PJs and saved two hours in the car'.
The shaky bathroom habits of your co-workers?
How about this one - the annual performance review?
Yep, the annual performance review typically rates pretty high on the list of unpleasant activities that employees and managers have to endure. We (mostly) hate them, we (generally) feel that they are a valuable and necessary activity to try and ensure employee efforts are aligned with overall organizational objectives, and that employees are provided the platform and opportunity to learn, develop, and simply become more engaged in the jobs and careeers.
And (theoretically) we tie the outcomes of the annual performance review to some if not all compensation outcomes. The whole 'pay for performance' idea, (I bet you have heard about it).
But generally, despite the decades of managerial attention, scholarship, and execution, many if not most of us have come to the conclusion that 'performance reviews suck'.
Tonight on the HR Happy Hour Show we are going to take on this topic head on, with two of the founders of an interesting and innovative technology company called Sonar6. Sonar6 makes performance review and succession planning software that promises to help your organizations execute a performance management process that doesn't suck.
How can technology impact the performance process in such a dramatic manner? How can a new and different approach turn 'suck' into 'fun'?
How can a couple of guys from New Zealand make a big impact in the world of HR Technology?
Tune in to the HR Happy Hour Show tonight, 8pm EDT, to talk with Sonar6 CEO John Holt and Co-founder Mike Carden and find out. Better still, jump into the conversation by calling in at 646-378-1086.
Note : If you are not familiar with Sonar6, take a look at this 'Brief History of Sonar6' video:
Thanks guys at Sonar6 for staying up late calling in from the future to join us on the show.