In these articles you’ll find a treasure chest of performance management examples to help you understand how to write goals, review comments, development plans, meeting notes and more. We show you the good, the bad and the ugly using real samples. You’ll find out how the words we choose and how they’re said make all the difference.
Goals when set correctly are great! They bring purpose, direction and clarity to a role. But when they are set poorly, goals are a demotivator. That’s why its so important to set them carefully and discuss them with your staff.
Now, pretend for a moment that you are responsible for managing the operations of an IT business. Your manager has put in place some objectives. Which of these two columns of objectives, A or B, would you prefer to see in your performance plan? Why?
No doubt that you’ll agree that column B provides far more clarity and direction to what’s required around performance for the coming period. Each goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound – SMART. Check out this article if you are interested in learning more.
Why Agile Performance Management?
In this article you’ll find an easy to understand explanation of Agile Performance Management and its benefits. But before we jump in, let’s understand why Agile Performance Management is needed.
With Cognology’s Performance Management System you’ll get a library of competencies to make goal setting easier.
