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
- 3mPerformance Management Is a Conversation, Not an EventKnowledge
- 3mGoals That WorkKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Conversations and GoalsAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mDocumenting Performance FairlyKnowledge
- 3mRecognition That Actually WorksKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Records and RecognitionAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mAddressing Underperformance Step by StepKnowledge
- 3mPractice: Goal Reset and a Performance ConversationAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Handling the Performance GapAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mFairness and Bias in RatingsKnowledge
- 3mCapstone: A Full Performance Cycle, Run FairlyAssignment
- 8mMastery Assessment: Judging Performance FairlyAssessment
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