[ryall]

Wholeheartedly agree. I ended up scrapping our company's PR document and rewrote it for my department.

Now it's more a performance review of the company and myself, and attempts to encourage my team to think about how we could improve the company. "What do you hate about your job? What do you like about your job? How could we apply some of the good points to other areas of the company?" Stuff like that.

If you're underperforming, I should already know (if I'm worthy of my position). And I definitely shouldn't be waiting a year to talk to you about it.