Staff Development & Performance Management – Leading Through People™, Module 6
This is the foundational course for anyone desiring a solid grasp on how to manage people and develop their capabilities. Participants gain a holistic perspective of best practices to equip each staff member for success, and how to correct performance or behavior back to the standards should anyone struggle. Topics include:
- Defining Performance Management
- What is performance management?
- Why performance management is one of the most crucial skills an effective leader can possess
- Introducing a Holistic Performance Management Model
- Quadrant 1: Establishing Performance Standards
- The right job description to define key responsibilities
- Effectively setting goals and objectives using SMART goals
- Setting clear and concise expectations with staff members
- Teaching staffers the new skills and knowledge they need to succeed
- Assigning work to staff members
- Quadrant 2: Mastering Performance Consistently
- Spending quality time to observe staff performance
- Providing feedback and effective coaching to staff members
- Creating a motivational climate
- Effectively evaluating and documenting performance
- Helping employees to solve their own problems
- The Holistic Performance Management Model
- A recap of Part 1: The Equipping Zone
- The discipline of consistently applying holistic performance management
- Quadrant 3: Counseling Unacceptable Performance or Behavior
- Measuring and analyzing the actual gap between the standards and the observed performance or behavior
- Counseling to correct performance deficiencies
- Counseling to correct behavioral deficiencies
- Issuing a verbal performance warning
- Issuing a written warning via a performance development plan
- Quadrant 4: Disciplinary Action
- Taking effective disciplinary action when warranted
- Dealing with breaches of the organization’s code of conduct
- Properly investigating complaints when they arise
- Properly resolving violations
- Handling terminations with sensitivity and professionalism
Part 1-Equipping People for Success
Session Length: 8 hours | Target: Supervisor and Above | Prerequisites: None | Delivery: taught live or webinar
Part 2-Correcting Back to Success
Session Length: 5 hours | Target: Supervisor and Above | Prerequisites: LTP 6-Part 1 | Delivery: taught live or webinar
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