Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day to Day Employee Performance
Course length: One day
To schedule this program for your workplace, contact the Management Education Group at 480-705-9394 or click here.
Course Overview:
One of the most essential skill sets a manager or supervisor must use everyday are those skills related to the management of employee performance. Helping employees be successful and guiding those employees who may not be performing up to expectations is a critical activity that all effective managers use. This program, based on Marnie E. Green’s book, Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day to Day Employee Performance (2006), offers the essential skills in managing day to day performance including how to establish and communicate clear expectations and how to conduct performance-related discussions. And, since performance management usually culminates in a regularly scheduled performance evaluation, tools for completing the performance evaluation documentation and for conducting the discussion is offered in this practical, hands-on program.
Target Audience:
This course is essential for all executives, managers, and supervisors. The program can be tailored to reflect the organization’s performance management processes and procedures.
Course Objectives:
Participants can expect to:
Implement a performance management plan together with your employee
Establish a work climate that is conducive to productive performance evaluations
Initiate and maintain positive communication about work performance through documentation and feedback
Prepare and conduct performance discussions that encourage an exchange of information and produce better results
I. The performance management process
II. Performance planning
A. Establishing performance expectations
B. Criteria for setting SMAART goals
C. Documentation and keeping an employee log
III. Providing performance feedback
IV. Writing the performance appraisal document
V. The evaluation discussion