Just found your blog. Good stuff!

I recently wrote a piece about performance reviews at my blog:

http://learningvoyager.blogspot.com/2005/09/sock-it-to-me-as-corporate-year-begins.html

As an OD Guy, I try to look at performance reviews from a systems standpoint where I ask, “How will this process support what we are trying to accomplish as an organization?”

In my experience, all too often performance review collapses into a massive year-end exercise…

- of spreadsheets
- of meetings
- of forms
- of uncomfortable interactions

…that leaves the participants stressed, then relieved when it ends.

Terry