It’s Rating Season. Time to Play “The Game”
It’s that time of year again, time for the most important part of performance management. It’s rating season. The time for playing nice is over—for optimistic plans, feedback, coaching, and development. It’s time for cold, hard, reptilian evaluation. Ratings are the raison d'être of traditional performance management (PM). And employees aren’t just rated, they are differentiated. Organizations grade on a curve. Regardless of the similarity of employee efforts and con
