Is Incompetence really good for us?!
July 28th, 2010 | Published in 360 Degree Feedback, 360 appraisal, 720 Degree Feedback, Employee engagement, Feedback, Giving 360 Degree Feedback, Management skills, Measuring Performance, appraisal
This is a great blog from the ever-refreshing Peter Honey in People Management yesterday. It’s about the recent claim that every school needs an incompetent teacher so that kids can learn how to deal with incompetence in the future.
If you take Peter’s path to its logical conclustion, we would also need a certain level of incompetence in the workplace to give people new and useful learning experiences in how to deal with incompetent managers and colleagues.  This would then require us to assess for Incompetence in the annual appraisal, ensure that new recruits had a certain level of Incompetence and inlcude Incompetence in leadership and senior manager development programmes! Â
I like this reverse thinking so much, I’m even thinking of developing a Incompetency 360 Degree Feedback - any ideas of what you might like to include?!
