From the course: Creating a Coaching Culture
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Avoiding the "year-end review"
From the course: Creating a Coaching Culture
Avoiding the "year-end review"
- The boxing term stealing the round occurs when a boxer is clearly winning the round but then at the end, perhaps the last 30 seconds, their opponent puts on a flurry of activity. As the judges fill out their scorecards at the end of the round, they give undue importance to those last seconds, and it's often enough for the boxer to steal the round. The same phenomena happens at work. It's human nature to place too much importance on what comes to mind most easily and most recently. This is known as recency bias, and it can distort reality. In the case of a year-end review, it's far easier to recall what someone did in the fourth quarter as opposed to the first or the second. Recognizing this, we need to combat our tendency towards recency bias. To overcome recency bias, when I coached people in a corporate university, every Friday afternoon I asked them to send me their top accomplishments, their number one challenge, and priorities for the upcoming week. Let's take a look at why…
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