In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita talks with Paul Klipp – coach, entrepreneur, and organizer of the ACE! Conference – about one of the most challenging topics in corporate life: one-on-ones and annual performance reviews.

With more than two decades of experience in small startups as well as large corporations, Paul shares insights from both sides of the table – as a manager running dozens of one-on-ones and reviews, and as an employee going through them himself. He explains why traditional performance reviews are built on poor psychology, why managers often avoid hard conversations, and how regular one-on-ones can become a powerful tool for growth instead of a painful ritual.

You will learn:

• why annual performance reviews are a bad idea and why companies still require them,
• why yearly feedback doesn't have a significant impact and what managers should focus on instead,
• how managers can minimize the harm of performance reviews,
• what one-on-ones should be used for and why that's rarely the case,
• what employees and managers can do when their one-on-ones feel meaningless.

Learn more about Paul at https://paulklipp.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulklipp/. The details about the upcoming ACE! Conference can be found at https://aceconf.com/

Mentioned resources:

• Donella Meadows - Thinking in Systems
• Nancy Kline - Time to Think
• Jim Benson - The Collaboration Equation
• Stephan Perry ACE! talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_k0zvPPbmM