Performance Management Workshop

Duration: 3 days

Programme Objectives

  • To define or revise the organisation’s performance management system.
  • To adequately define the job and person specification.
  • To define key performance areas and performance indicators.
  • To improve recruitment efforts.
  • To develop on the job performance.
  • Refining the performance review process.
  • To obtain ‘sign off’ from management on each key stage of the workshop.
  • To agree a final action plan for implementation.

Programme Modules

Describing and Defining the Job

  • What is the Job?
  • What will the job achieve?
  • What knowledge and skills are necessary to do the job?
  • What personal traits are necessary to do the job?

Key Performance Areas

  • Defining the  responsibilities and accountabilities for the job.
  • Weighting Key Performance Areas to show their relative importance.
  • Determining the job holder’s core competencies.

Performance Indicators

  • Understanding the rationale behind the measurement of job performance.
  • Developing criteria to accurately  measure job performance.
  • Creating behaviourally anchored rating scales.

Finding the Right Person for the Job

  • Evaluating and developing current recruitment practices.
  • Improving effective interviewing technique.

Developing the Person on the Job

  • Establishing a start-up worksheet.
  • Designing effective orientation and induction sessions.
  • The role of feedback and reinforcement.
  • Adapting leadership style.
  • Developing the achievement guide.
  • Diagnosing performance problems.

Analysing the Performance Review

  • Analysing the current performance review process.
  • Key parts of the Performance review.
  • Using multi-rater feedback.
  • Conducting the performance review.
  • Establishing Personal Development Plans.

Management Session

  • Developing the Final Action Plan for implementation.