If You Were a Poor Performer, You Wouldn’t Be Aware of It !!!

January 03, 2014

Leadership / Management Tip 

If You Were a Poor Performer, You Wouldn’t Be Aware of It !!! 

If you are aware of it , you would have DONE SOMETHING about it ! 

( Such employees need a lot of unpalatable , unpleasant  feedback !  ) 

The Experiment 
In a logic test administered to people who had volunteered over the internet, a team of researchers found that the LOWEST  scorers VASTLY  OVER-ESTIMATED their performance ! 
They believed on average, that they had gotten 7 out of 10 items right ( before the actual results were shown to them ! ) when the actual figure was ZERO ! 

Underlying reason : 
 People who lack the skill to perform well ALSO  tend to lack the ability to judge THEIR OWN  performance !!  
They tend to over estimate their own abilities vis-a-vis their job challenges ! 
Because of this “dual curse,” they fail to recognize how incompetent they truly are !! 
But thankfully , skills aren’t set in stone !! Teaching poor performers to solve LOGIC  problems causes them to see their own errors and REDUCE  their PREVIOUS  estimates of their performance.

Research conducted by : , according to Thomas Schlösser of the University of Cologne in Germany
SOURCE: How unaware are the unskilled?
 Empirical tests of the signal extraction counterexplanation for the " Dunning–Kruger effect"  in self-evaluation of performance
Courtesy : Harvard Business Review . 
Action Steps : 
Net Search on : " Dunning-Kruger Effect " and 
" Dunning-Kruger Effect " in self evaluation of performance .