The leaders and owners that I coach “hate” doing performance reviews because they are all due at the same time, now, and there are too many to do. I worked with a brilliant manager at the world’s finest hospital who had 28 reviews to do each year. The review process they had was cumbersome, bumpy in its information gathering and rarely referenced the job description they were originally hired for…

28 required reviews is stupid. The manager received negative feedback if any of them were late. Got no kudos if they were early.

So you have everyone else’s performance review to do? If you had to do your own performance review today, how would you rate yourself? You doing what is most important and in a timely way is good. Being tasked with 28 reviews that in the end, if printed, would produce 26 pages, is not a performance review…it is a senior thesis on how not to review performance. Review what they are doing right; what is not working; what needs to change and what is next. Period.