Calibration of the Calibration

I just sat through (and left early, thank goodness), an HR meeting to calibrate the calibration model.

I was praying for a natural disaster.

I use to work for a large automotive company (no names), and it felt like I was in one of those meetings. BTW - have you seen their financial position lately? I hope that's not a prophecy of things to come.

Now, you may be saying, "Jeff, why didn't you fix the meeting?" My fix is don't have the meeting. Get back to work!

Seriously, IMHO, calibrating people is learn-by-doing/watching. People are just so individualistic, and projects are so unique. You need a basic framework (we have one of those). Then with the help of your manager and peers, you develop your own intuitions and experiences. 

As a geek, I generally love recursion and meta, but in this case "Death to calibration calibration!"