Managing performance doesn’t have to be difficult but it does require you to invest time and effort into getting it right. There are a number of crucial elements to managing people in the right way and Squire HR offers a range of training and development support and tool kits that can help.
Performance management isn’t just about an annual appraisal or performance review – it’s about creating a culture that allows people to develop and grow. For example, do you know who your poor performing managers are? What are you doing to help them become the best managers they can be?
People perform at different levels and it’s important to have a system in place that helps the management team recognise great performance as well as supporting individuals in their career progression and development – meaningful conversations are key. This provides a benchmark of performance levels across the business and helps managers to understand their teams better.
Here’s what we can do:
- Assess and review current performance management principles.
- Re-shape or design new performance management processes (appraisals) as well as facilitating a way to embed these into your business through management and colleague training.
- Help you to determine the right objectives for your people – whether they are in line with the strategic direction of your company or based on personal and professional development.
- Support you in considering the development plans that should be put in place to ensure colleagues understand what they need to do to do a good job and remain engaged.
- Provide tool kits, models and exercises to support managers in becoming the best managers they can be.
- Provide individual or team support to managers that need it.
- Ensure that your systems enable the process, not hinder it.
Some managers find it difficult to manage their staff consistently and well, especially when it comes to behavioural issues that sometimes have to be tackled. We have a number of techniques and models that you can use to empower managers to do it in the right way – whether it’s just one manager who needs individual support or a new performance management system for the entire company, Squire HR can provide dedicated training and support.
Your people need to know how they are performing and research shows that having more open and honest discussions about performance is what people need. In order to achieve this, it’s really important to have a consistent approach to managing and rating performance that will empower people and create success.
Great performance management can result in the creation of a high performing culture where effective management is at the heart of what your business does. We can help with developing organisational, line manager and individual capability in managing performance with consistent and fair evaluation across your business at all levels. This means that managers manage performance as an on-going process throughout the year. A business needs motivated and high-performing people so regular, focussed and meaningful performance conversations are vital.
There is no silver bullet when it comes to managing performance. All organisations find it challenging to come up with ways to design systems and record performance. Using best practice models we can take the hard work out of it for you.
If you get these elements right, your staff have a better chance of being clear on what is expected of them, feel valued for the contribution they make, know what role they play in your company’s strategy and are given the opportunity to develop and grow.