Is it just your supervisor? Or their supervisor as well?
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@k9 You hit the nail on the head! KOF is a BS exercise — it puts an excessive amount of effort and stress on employees during the assessment process. Like you said, it only exists to create the illusion that serious analysis and consideration go into the assessment, but supervisors and managers don’t actually care what’s on it.
What’s the point of soliciting feedback when it only stays on your record for a year and then disappears? You can’t even request a copy of your positive KOF, which makes the whole thing feel even more pointless.
This thread demonstrates a few key points about KOF, and the assessment process in general.
- Training for supervisors on the process is very poor and there is a large variance on how KOF feedback is used and shared. Some supervisors use CC to anonymize and share completely, some share selectively, some don’t share at all.
- KOF is largely useless. KOF *might be used in your supervisors 2-minute summary of you that they present in the assessment session. Even if they do no one cares, your fate was determined before the session ever started, you are unlikely to move up, might move down, but typically movements are only one step +- from where your supervisor pre-assessed you. In any case KOF seeks to have any application at all once the assessment period is over. No one goes back to look at your KOF ever again. It doesn’t matter, it never did.
- KOF is another example of the excessive amount of effort and stress that the employees endure from the assessment process, but it only exists to give the illusion that serious analysis and consideration is given to the assessment process when in reality it is mostly pre-determined long before the process is executed.
Why copy paste it? You can export to pdf anonymous or not straight from the tool.
My managers manger definitely has access…she read one back to me in our 1:1
@bw no the guy I’m talking about was my manager in supply chain. He would literally copy‑paste everything in email to us and just remove the names. My other managers actually summarized feedback and wrote their own comments
@OP only your manager
@bw omg - he thinks he can do everyone’s job…and doesnt listen.
@ay if you’re referring to a bearded finance man who smokes a lot, no. That’s not the initials of any of my last 5 managers that have all walked through the feedback with me each year.
@a7 Interesting you say that because every supervisor I’ve had has walked me through the feedback I’ve received during PDS meetings and my current one anonymized and sent over to me so I could read the words directly.
@OP I gave feedback on you, basically said you’re a complete worthless to-ser
It doesn’t matter because they don’t read it. Do you think your supervisor’s supervisor would spend time reading hundreds of feedback responses? Never going to happen.