---
id: "action-shift-capability-evidence"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Three Necessities", "¶12"]
tags: ["hr-strategy", "performance-management"]
related: ["concept-continuous-assessment", "entity-microsoft-skills-agent", "framework-three-necessities"]
speakers: ["Sangeet Paul Choudary", "John Winsor"]
action: "Monitor real-time work signals (code, calls, tool usage) instead of relying on periodic reviews."
outcome: "A dynamic, constantly updating profile of employee capabilities based on actual work performed."
sources: ["tail1"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail1"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-tail-112-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-continually-assessing-performance"
sourceTitle: "The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance"
---
# Shift Evidence of Capability to Real-Time Signals

**Action:** Monitor real-time work signals (code commits, customer calls, collaboration patterns, tool usage) instead of relying on periodic reviews.

**Do this:** Transition away from periodic performance reviews and self-reported skills. Implement systems that continuously monitor real-time work signals to *infer* actual capabilities. Tooling reference: [[entity-microsoft-skills-agent]] (backed by the [[entity-linkedin-skills-graph]]).

**Expected outcome:** A dynamic, constantly updating profile of employee capabilities based on actual work performed.

This is Necessity #1 of the [[framework-three-necessities]] and the operational face of [[concept-continuous-assessment]]. Pair it with the governance guardrails in [[claim-surveillance-backlash]] to avoid a surveillance backlash.