As we prepare for the release of our new eBook Lead Where You Are which will be coming out right after the first of the year, we will be exploring how organizations rated as a Best Place to Work create dynamic, highly engaged workforces delivering sustained results by leveraging many of the concepts we highlight in the book.

Week 1 (Oct. 10) - Leading with Purpose
Week 2 (Oct. 17) - Leading Change
Week 3 (Oct. 24) - Leading Accountability
Week 4 (Oct. 31) - Leading Performance

Leading Performance - Adobe

Over that last three weeks we have highlighted lessons we can learn from some the best organizations in the world. We culminate our Lessons from the Best series with Adobe Corporation - The future of performance management, now.

Adobe has continually led the way in reinventing traditional HR and HR practices. Guided by the vision and leadership of Donna Morris, Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice President of Employee Experience, Adobe took a look at how inefficient and ineffective the traditional performance review process was and changed it.

Adobe managers were spending an average of 17 hours per employee completing annual performance reviews. Today, with their Check-in performance model, the company has saved an estimated 100,000+ on their performance process. With that type of transformation Adobe has positioned itself as a top leader in continuous performance feedback and development. As Donna once stated, “Ratings and rankings are a buzzkill for productivity and performance.” Adobe quickly realized that driving high performance and engagement requires an ongoing dialogue between managers and employees: if something’s not going to work out, people want to know what’s going on right away, not just once a year.

With Check-in, managers and employees have frequent conversations (check-ins) about expectations tied to corporate priorities, ongoing feedback and career and personal development. Employees are empowered to actively participate in their own success and drive the performance discussion.

By enabling every employee to own their success, performance shifts from being managed and reviewed to being developed and pursued. Adobe has shown us the future and serves as a proof source for performance success. It’s time to evolve traditional performance management. Stop wasting precious time and resources on ineffective and outdated performance review processes.

Take Adobe’s lead and transform your organizations performance.

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Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.