The power of feedforward for performance reviews
Running and growing your own business successfully depends a lot on your ability to keep yourself motivated and focused on the end goal. When things don’t go according to plan, it’s your resilience that keeps you going. Your ability to learn from your mistakes, then put them behind you, is what keeps you moving forward.
Why should it be any different for your employees?
I think you’ll find it’s not.
Which is why performance reviews focused on feedback can be so demoralising. Typically, feedback in these sessions takes the form of constructive criticism of current performance which, if delivered poorly, is unlikely to encourage the employee to improve at all and may even worsen the situation.
So, what if we feedforward instead of feedback?
Feedforward focuses on finding future-based solutions that will enhance performance or an existing situation. It empowers employees to learn and grow, to be proactive in their approach. It helps to keep them moving forward, which keeps your business moving forward.
And then, of course, there’s the bonus of no more dreaded negative performance reviews!
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