Introduction to Performance Management
- Introduction – the context for performance management
- The case for performance Management
- Strategic and integrated performance management
- The principles and building blocks of effective performance management : setting objectives, identifying the key performance indicators and managing employee performance
- The role of HR, managers, supervisors and team leaders within performance management
- Motivational theories and models and their role in performance management
- The psychological contract an exercise
Performance Management: Setting Objectives
- What are objectives?
- Setting objectives
- The importance of agreeing objectives
- Quantitative and Qualitative objectives
- SMARTMaC objectives
- Setting objectives
- Achieving vertical, functional and horizontal integration
Performance Management: Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- What are KPIs – different things to different organizations?
- The objective and the KPI – what’s the difference?
- What are the KPIs for your organization
- KPI exercise
- The balanced scorecard (Kaplan and Norton)
- The purpose of employee appraisal
- Some practical problems with employee appraisal
Performance Management: Managing Performance
- Monitoring employee performance: monthly, quarterly and annual reviews
- Addressing the performance gap: informal and formal approaches to addressing performance problems
- Managing a performance problem
- Improving attendance at work: resolving absence and sick absence problems
- Agreeing the performance appraisal rating
- Performance appraisal and the link to pay
- Forced Ranking and the Expected Distribution
Giving and Receiving Feedback and Coaching
- Feedback models and providing constructive and developmental feedback
- Giving and receiving feedback exercise
- Coaching: the ask/tell continuum and the 8 steps to effective coaching
- Coaching case studies
- Continuing Professional Development: personal development planning (PDP)