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Performance Management

Managing performance as an everyday leadership practice: setting goals that work, holding continuous performance conversations, documenting fairly, addressing underperformance step by step, recognising good work, and keeping ratings free of bias.

55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Explain why continuous performance conversations outperform a once-a-year review, and what each is for
  • Set SMART-style goals that connect each person's work to the team's goals and can actually be checked
  • Keep fair, factual performance records that would stand up to the person reading them
  • Address underperformance step by step: clarify expectations, diagnose the cause, agree a support plan, and review progress
  • Use specific, timely recognition to reinforce the behaviour and results you want repeated
  • Recognise the common rating biases and apply practical guards so evaluations are consistent and evidence-based

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • Performance Management Is a Conversation, Not an Event
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Goals That Work
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Awareness Check: Conversations and Goals
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Documenting Performance Fairly
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Recognition That Actually Works
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Knowledge Check: Records and Recognition
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • Addressing Underperformance Step by Step
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Practice: Goal Reset and a Performance Conversation
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill Check: Handling the Performance Gap
    Assessment
    8m
4

Mastery

  • Fairness and Bias in Ratings
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Capstone: A Full Performance Cycle, Run Fairly
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery Assessment: Judging Performance Fairly
    Assessment
    8m

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