Understanding And Managing Performance Appraisals

Introduction

The current market conditions in the business world are highly competitive and managers are to be highly skilled at conducting appraisals on their team members. To make these reviews successful lies upon the skill of managers to navigate the ins and outs of the appraisal system. Aside to understanding the systems, it is highly important for the managers to get the buy-in from their team members towards reaching and striving for these goals. With appraisals needing such diverse skills the need for effective training in Understanding and Managing Performance Appraisals and to use tools necessary to ensure appraisals are run effectively has become more a must for managers and supervisors.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamentals of performance appraisals
• Set and write SMART performance objectives
• Review the performance and clearly give constructive feedback
• Hold structured appraisal meetings

Key Content

Module 1: Understand The Fundamental Of Performance Appraisal System

• Why access performance?
• Performance appraisals systems weaknesses
• Basics of performance appraisals

Module 2: Educate The Appraisers On The Importance Of Key Performance Indicators In An Organization

• What are KRA's and KPI's
• Using SMART to get goals defined
• Rolling down of KPI's

Module 3: Writing KPI's

• Hands on practice to write KPI's
• Step by step guide on how to assign weightages to KPI's
• Translate tactical initiatives into performance measures

Module 4: Clear Two-Way Communication Skills Between Appraiser And Appraisee

• The performance conversation flow
• 6 steps to effective performance appraisal
• 4 key communication skills needed to effectively be an appraiser