As a followup to a previous post on forced ranking, I thought you’d like to see this article at workforce.com. It reprints an appendix from Dick Grote’s new book called Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work.
It’s a memo from a CEO to his company explaining the benefits of an upcoming forced ranking process and how it will work. It’s easy to see how communicating this well can remove some of the fear from the process and highlight the win-win aspects of the initiative.