WTF is Business Casual
Buckle up for real HR stories that'll make you laugh, cringe, and thank your lucky stars you're not that guy.
WTF is Business Casual is the HR podcast where two seasoned consultants—Sarah Bursten and Jenny Lavey, co-founders of RiseHR—dish on wild workplace fails, toxic bosses, employee drama, and leadership gone wrong. With 35+ years of combined experience in HR, leadership development, and people management, they offer surprisingly useful advice wrapped in real talk and hilarious storytelling.
If you’re an HR professional, small business owner, people manager, or just someone who’s survived office politics, this show is for you.
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Hosted by Sarah Bursten & Jenny Lavey | RiseHR
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WTF is Business Casual
Performance Reviews Are Broken (Part 2): Why Development Planning Keeps Missing the Point
Development planning is the most ignored, and most misunderstood, part of performance management.
In this episode of WTF is Business Casual, HR consultants Jenny Levy and Sarah Burston break down why development planning deserves its own lane and why bundling it into performance reviews quietly wrecks employee growth, engagement, and retention.
This is Part Two of their performance management series, focused on the forward-looking side of work.
What’s inside this episode:
- Why development planning deserves its own conversation separate from performance reviews
- Why tying development to compensation creates false expectations
- What Individual Development Plans are supposed to do versus what they usually become
- Why training is the smallest piece of real development
- How on-the-job learning actually builds skills leaders care about
- The problem with leaders deciding career paths without asking employees what they want
- Why succession planning often ignores human reality
- How lateral moves develop people without inflating titles
- Why growth doesn’t look the same in every season of life
- What leaders owe employees when they say they “care about development”
Listen to Part 1: Performance Reviews Are Broken (Part 1): The Messy Reality of Workplace Evaluation
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Jenny and Sarah also share details about upcoming free HR training sessions through Rise HR, focused on continuous feedback, development tools, and modern performance management for small and mid-size businesses.
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