Leaders who have tracked a team member’s behavior over the year should be in an ideal position to review performance and overlay it against the goals agreed to at the start. While goal accomplishment assists leaders in looking at the whole record, we all know that most leaders place more weight on what has occurred most recently. This bias makes reviews less accurate and penalizes team members who are fast out of the gate, but end the year without the same intensity.
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The Recency Bias of Performance Reviews
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Leaders who have tracked a team member’s behavior over the year should be in an ideal position to review performance and overlay it against the goals agreed to at the start. While goal accomplishment assists leaders in looking at the whole record, we all know that most leaders place more weight on what has occurred most recently. This bias makes reviews less accurate and penalizes team members who are fast out of the gate, but end the year without the same intensity.