Daniel Pink#1 NYT bestselling author of 7 books

Take control of your growth with a DIY performance review—no manager required!

16 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker proposes a simple, low‑cost method for conducting performance reviews without a manager. The approach involves setting both performance and learning goals at the start of each month, then at month‑end conducting a self‑assessment by asking oneself about progress, obstacles, and resource needs. The speaker extends the idea to small peer groups, where colleagues share their goals, discuss them over coffee, and hold each other accountable, fostering a community‑driven drive toward mastery.

There's a simple, cheap way to do performance reviews, which is just basically a DIY performance review. Do it yourself. Beginning of the month, set out your goals. Performance goals, learning goals. And at the end of the month, call yourself into the office. Ask yourself how you're faring. Are you making progress? Are you falling behind? Do you need new tools and new information? Why not do it yourself? And what's interesting now is that this is happening in a self-organized way where groups of peers are doing some of this. Where people will take a few colleagues. These are my goals, these are what I'm trying to do, this is what I'm trying to get better at. Let's all talk about it at coffee once a month and hold each other accountable and assess each other's progress. Because people have that yearning for mastery.