People & Organisation
Performance review operating system
A practical framework / model addressing this question: How should expectations, evidence, self-review, manager assessment, calibration, and follow-through connect?
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Performance review operating system vs Personal operating-system review
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Personal operating-system review
A practical checklist / diagnostic addressing this question: Do a leader's routines, information flows, decisions, and relationships support effective work?
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Use the performance review operating system when people working on feedback and performance are using different mental models for expectations, evidence, and self review, and that difference is changing choices or coordination.
Do a leader's routines, information flows, decisions, and relationships support effective work?
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Performance review operating system
- Apply the performance review operating system to one current situation before explaining it abstractly. If the model does not change a question, reveal a relationship, or narrow a choice, the analysis is not yet useful.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the performance review operating system is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Set the evidence boundary. Agree the scope, owner, participants, period, and evidence source before completing expectations and evidence.
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- Do not use the performance review operating system as a label for a conclusion already reached. It is a lens for testing relationships around expectations, not evidence that one interpretation is automatically correct.
Personal operating-system review
- Require dated evidence for every status in the personal operating system review. Keep unknown separate from healthy, and convert each material gap into one proportionate action with an owner and a review date.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the personal operating system review is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Set the evidence boundary. Agree the scope, owner, participants, period, and evidence source before completing priorities and calendar.
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- Do not average the personal operating system review into one reassuring score when a single material gap can determine the outcome. Unknown evidence is a finding, not a neutral or healthy state.
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