(Photo Courtesy of <a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/lokner/4164251472/>Michael Lokner via Flickr</a>.)

With the new year comes the annual gauntlet of performance reviews for many companies and employees.

Many managers see them as one more task on a likely overloaded to-do list, and many employees dread going through the evaluation.

But is there anything better?

Well, no. Not really.

Brandon Smith tells us where we’re going wrong in our annual reviews and how we can do better in this week’s Working on GPB Radio.