Performance management is the cornerstone to developing an effective workforce.  

A good performance management process will focus on the quality of discussions between managers and staff, and has many benefits for your organisation as a whole.  However, not all managers see it like that! Many see it as another HR job that takes valuable time away from their day job.

At its best, performance management is a way of:

• Linking your business goals with the work of individual staff
  

• Tackling poor performance
  

• Identifying and developing talent
  

• Linking pay and performance
  

• Monitoring the investment made in your recruitment
  

• Designing the documentation
  

• Clarifying the role of individual staff and the line managers in the process
  

• Producing guidelines for staff and managers
  

• Training staff and managers on the process
  

• Implementation within the organisation – getting ‘buy-in’, design, communication, training, evaluation