{"id":1413,"date":"2016-07-21T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2016-07-21T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:19:36","slug":"evaluating-the-performance-evaluation-with-srinivas-krishnamurti-ep-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2016\/07\/evaluating-the-performance-evaluation-with-srinivas-krishnamurti-ep-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating the Performance Evaluation with Srinivas Krishnamurti Ep 115"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which we ask the existential question: which would you rather have: an annual performance evaluation, a root canal, or a colonoscopy. Only The Geek Whisperers are brave enough to tackle\u00a0this kind of cutting-edge question! Our guest is Srinivas Krishnamurti, and on this podcast we try to figure out why the performance evaluation process is so broken, and what might come next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7585\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1413-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n<p>Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Zugata, a company that is trying to reinvent evaluations with software that collects feedback from peers along the way, not just once a year.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode we talk about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why performance evaluations are broken<\/li>\n<li>What are the expectations of millennials in the workforce?<\/li>\n<li>Hey, wait a minute, aren&#8217;t performance evaluations supposed to be a tool for improvement? Why are they always about money?<\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s secrets to a successful performance evaluation (dare them to mark you down)<\/li>\n<li>Amy&#8217;s secrets to a successful performance evaluation (have a competing job offer)<\/li>\n<li>Zugata&#8217;s approach to performance evaluations<\/li>\n<li>Is personal development the employee&#8217;s responsibility, or the company&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<li>Can a corporations even fix this?<\/li>\n<li>Once again we hear this advice: it comes down to finding that passion about what you need to do in your job<\/li>\n<li>Also look at what you&#8217;re good at, and go in that direction<\/li>\n<li>At the end of the day, you have to believe in yourself<\/li>\n<li>Follow Srinivas at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/skrishna09\">@skrishna09<\/a> or mail him at sk@zugata.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7584\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1413-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1413-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"115_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which we ask the existential question: which would you rather have: an annual performance evaluation, a root canal, or a colonoscopy. Only The Geek Whisperers are brave enough to tackle\u00a0this kind of cutting-edge question! Our guest is Srinivas Krishnamurti, and on this podcast we try to figure out why&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2016\/07\/evaluating-the-performance-evaluation-with-srinivas-krishnamurti-ep-115\/\">Read All Show Notes<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluating the Performance Evaluation with Srinivas Krishnamurti Ep 115<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7586\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1413-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1413-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/115_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"115_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}