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UGH, It's Review Time: How AI Can Rescue Review Season
Explore how AI and Catch Up AI can help leaders and managers survive review season, improve feedback quality, and build a feedback-rich culture.
Bob Galen
UGH, it's review time
If you're a middle manager or leader in any organization, you dread specific times of year when you are called up to...gulp...review your direct reports.
It used to be reviews were annual, the time sink was yearly. I remember literally losing my personal life during review season--typically around the end of year holidays.
Often now the review cycle is more frequent--
First, you have Corporate/HR pressure to get them done. Often with a new or modified way of providing the feedback, and
And then, you want to provide the most useful, balanced, actionable, and accurate feedback possible to each of your reports.
I've found, and I'll bet you have as well, that quality (#2) often suffers because of the time demands and my overall capacity.
But there is good news and a way for AI to help you out of this vicious cycle. Catch Up AI is your active partner to help you survive and thrive in review season. It provides a mechanism for 360-degree, peer-to-peer feedback that augments and activates review feedback.
I encourage you to review the product and see how it can help.
In my next post, I'll explain the role Catch Up AI plays in gathering high-quality feedback. Till then,
Agile Moose
Performance Reviews: Priming People for Progress
UGH, Performance Review Time Again
It used to be reviews were annual, the time sink was yearly. I remember literally losing my personal life during review season--typically around the end of year holidays.
Often now the review cycle is more frequent--
- Quarterly
- Semi-annually
- Monthly
- Variable for new hires
First, you have Corporate/HR pressure to get them done. Often with a new or modified way of providing the feedback, and
And then, you want to provide the most useful, balanced, actionable, and accurate feedback possible to each of your reports.
I've found, and I'll bet you have as well, that quality (#2) often suffers because of the time demands and my overall capacity.
But there is good news and a way for AI to help you out of this vicious cycle. Catch Up AI is your active partner to help you survive and thrive in review season. It provides a mechanism for 360-degree, peer-to-peer feedback that augments and activates review feedback.
I encourage you to review the product and see how it can help.
In my next post, I'll explain the role Catch Up AI plays in gathering high-quality feedback. Till then,
Agile Moose
Performance Reviews: Priming People for Progress
UGH, Performance Review Time Again
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