Mike Andes argues anonymous peer reviews let teammates give honest feedback without fear. He shares a brutally blunt example, then models vulnerability by reading his own negative feedback aloud to show the team it's safe to be honest about weaknesses.
Anonymous peer reviews. What are they amazing at, and what could they improve at? You give one of these to all of your team, they fill it out, and then you can just compile all of these to create slips for each person. Think about it. Who else can you go to that people that want to see you win, they want you to do well, but they're willing to give you constructive feedback?
He's a pedantic, pontificating, pretentious, a belligerent old fart. A worthless, steaming pile of cow dung.
Most of us don't even get that from our family. And so the ability to be able to get that from team members and do it in a really constructive manner is important. I would read off my personal, negative things of what I could improve at from the year previous, and it really helped. And I'd be like, okay, guys, so, like, look, I understand it's a little weird to talk about other people. I explained the positive benefits of it and, like, how when you get your feedback, you're gonna really want to know what people thought. So spend some time on this. But then I would say, hey, look, the whole goal here is to get better, and the only way to get better is we'll get feedback from others. And who else better to get feedback from the people you work with every day?
