Alignment is Everything: Building Future-Ready Teams with AI

For decades, performance management has had an identity crisis. What should be a process to inspire, develop, and align employees has instead become an experience employees fear, managers dread, and HR departments begrudgingly enforce. Performance reviews have drifted into the realm of organizational compliance—more akin to ticking a box than empowering a human.It’s no wonder we’re stuck.Performance management, as it stands today, relies on flawed tools and processes. Chief among them? Human memory.

Imagine this: It’s 12:00 PM on a typical workday, and instead of heading out for a sandwich, a Gen Z employee stays glued to their screen. Productivity? Maybe. Burnout? Definitely. And yet, their Boomer manager sees this as… laziness?The recent article from Fortune highlights the generational friction over workplace habits like skipping lunch breaks, and the conversation reveals something deeper: a disconnect between traditional norms and the evolving reality of work today.