Performance Management for Leaders
Duration
2 days
Target Audience
This day looks at performance management (appraisals) in a wider sense, as an integrated system to drive organisational performance. It allows you to consider the processes and policies that will together create the opportunity for continuous performance.
Managers of people who want to go beyond appraisal as the sole performance management process in their organisation. Being a skilful reviewer of performance is a must for any manager, and performance management is much misunderstood by many, as a tool to maximise effectiveness.
Key Objectives
- Examine the nature of performance management and establish how to get the best from the process
- Improve focus and results by agreeing clear realistic objectives and key result areas within a performance management discussion
- Use a systematic approach to the performance management cycle
Outline
- What is leadership effectiveness?
- The purpose and scope of performance management
- ‘Before, during and after' a performance management session
- Developing effective objectives and their links to the role and the business objectives within the business plan
- Types of objective - performance and developmental
- Agreeing objectives that are relevant and challenging
- Apply interpersonal skills, including giving feedback, questioning and listening, to enable an effective performance management discussion
- Monitoring progress against the plan – the when's and how
