The Man Who Cured the Performance Review A practical and engaging guide to perfecting the art of performance conversation

The Man Who Cured the Performance Review is a fun leadership fable that tackles the much-dreaded performance review period! Set in the Lapland Headquarters of Santa Enterprisers the elves are buckling under the bureaucratic system for performance reviews instigated by their new owners. Headed up by HR Harry and his dazzling list of acronyms the system is rife with complex ratings systems and terminology that nobody in the team understands. After hearing the elves ridicule the review system Santa decides it's time to take action and come up with a better more productive way for his company to discuss workplace performance. Santa goes in search of the cure and looks everywhere with no luck, until he stumbles across a Donut factory and finds the answer! The outcome is a system based on frank and honest discussions that happen throughout the year, as opposed to a once-a-year meeting where feedback is forced and delivered according to criteria, and used to apportion financial reward (or punishment!).

Graham Winter is a psychologist and consultant who designs innovative frameworks to tackle some of the most challenging people issues in business. He is the author of bestseller think one team. A three-time Australian Olympic Team chief psychologist, Graham is passionate about curing the performance review.