Performance Management: Improving Employee Performance

Explore strategies for creating a culture that encourages high performance as well as best practices for improving employee performance in the modern workplace.

Introduction

• What we mean when we talk about performance management

1. Foundations of Performance Management

• A new approach emerges
• Set clear expectations
• Performance improvement begins in the hiring process
• Establish a culture of execution
• Have a dialogue, not an evaluation
• Create motivating workplaces

2. Best Practices for Improving Performance

• Time management
• Effective delegation
• Focus on team efforts
• Manage remote workers
• Motivate and engage employees
• How managers sabotage employee performance
• Measure yourself as a manager

3. Strategic Performance Management

• Increase creative thinking
• Recognize and reward great performance
• Manage the poor performer
• Coach high and low performers
• Use performance management tools

Conclusion

• Next steps