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The BBC hopes to have more "meaningful conversations" with staff about their performance this year, ahead of determining individual pay. There'll be no compulsion to fill in paper forms, or the current online forms (which are apparently "a nightmare" - this from the organisation that streamed all of the Olympics and developed the iPlayer). Managers are apparently expected at the least to deliver a rating (1 to 5) verbally, but the appraisee can opt not to have the verdict recorded on their files - a gap that may speak volumes.

There is, sadly, evidence in the Pollard report of a systemic failure to conduct meaningful conversations at the top of the BBC.  And sometimes, the conversations with on-air talent are less than honest, delivering this outcome, from a neat graphic currently doing the rounds...

Leading the decision on meaningful conversations is HR Director Karen Moran, previously Head of the BBC Academy's College of Leadership - below lecturing last year.