Performance Reviews Are Broken (Part 2): Why Development Planning Keeps Missing the Point

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This episode discusses the importance of development planning in performance management and its impact on employee growth and retention.

Send us Fan Mail Development planning is the most ignored, and most misunderstood, part of performance management. In this episode of WTF is Business Casual, HR consultants Jenny Levy and Sarah Burston break down why development planning deserves its own lane and why bundling it into performance reviews quietly wrecks employee growth, engagement, and retention. This is Part Two of their performance management series, focused on the forward-looking side of work. What’s inside this episode: Why...

Topics covered

• performance reviews
• development planning
• employee growth
• engagement
• retention

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