Dwarves Radio Talk 16 Run An Effective Performance Review

Performance Review

We perform bi-yearly reviews in July and January. The primary purpose of these reviews is to **give feedback **on career path advancement and recognize accomplishments. We follow a simple process:

• Everyone writes up a 1-2 page summary and sends it to the head of their team.
• The head of your team reviews your summary and prepares their thoughts. He schedules a one-hour meeting to discuss.

Inside the summary

We run this practice with two spirits:

• It’s on about learning knowledge and applying.
• Result is evaluated higher than the process.

There’re two sessions we look forward to reading in the team member’s summary

Accomplishment

• How do you apply your self-capacity in the real work?
• Compared to six months or a year ago, did you level up your individual expertise?

Self-reflection Feeling about yourself.

• Good or bad?
• Happy or not?
• Satisfied or not? etc.

The Performance Indicator is usually the summary of Responsible, Teamwork and Mastery*. *We don’t judge team members from our point of view, we let them reflect their thought and propose their achievement.