Sections of this topic
Guidelines for Implementation
and Evaluation
Sections of This Topic Include
Guidelines for Initial Implementation
Guidelines to Continuously Evaluate Your Implementation
Guidelines for Initial Implementation
The activities in performance management guidelines for application are a recurring cycle of highly integrated
activities. Over time, they occur as a very meaningful conversation among leaders
in the organization. The styles in conducting the activities range from implicit
and unfolding to explicit and well-planned, depending on the culture of the
organization, the complexity of its operations, and the reason for conducting
the performance management process.
- Be sure to form a team to oversee the implementation. There will be much
more expertise, energy, and wisdom in a team than if one person is responsible
for it all. - Do not view performance management as a completely new set of activities
in your organization. Realize that you have probably already been doing
some of them. Now, you are building upon them, expanding them, and improving
them. - Similar to the requirements
for accomplishing significant change in organizations, the process of
performance management will not be successful if it does not have the full
ongoing support and oversight of the top management in the organization, as
well as the ongoing effective delegation from the supervisors of those implementing
the process. - Follow the Pareto
The principle suggests that, in most things in life, the first 20% of
effort generates the first 80% of success. This is true for first implementing
the performance management process. Get it implemented during the first year
and improve it as you go along. - Early in the implementation, decide if you will be using the traditional
approach or the progressive
approach to performance management. The approaches can be quite different. - While implementing the process, be sure that you see all the perspectives
that are involved. All of us have biases or natural ways that we automatically
perceive and interpret things in the world, including how we come to conclusions
about them. Many times, we are not aware of those biases, despite the significant
role they play in what we see and do not see.
Understand Your
Preferred “Lens” Through Which You View Organizations
What’s
a Mindset? What’s Yours?
Guidelines to Continuously Evaluate Your
Implementation
As you implement and operate the performance management process, whether it
is for an overall organization, team, or individual employee, always be asking
yourselves:
- How might we be more effective in aligning our preferred performance results
with the overall goals of the organization? - How might we be more effective in selecting our performance measures?
- How might we be more effective and efficient in continuing to monitor those
measures? - Was our documented performance plan complete and accurate enough?
- How might we improve our performance appraisal process?
- How successful were we in improving performance where it was needed?
- What changes should we make to our performance management process?
- What changes should we make to how we evaluate the process?
Now, go back and make the necessary changes to how you operate your performance
system.
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