Why Performance Management Training?

Whatever format it takes, the management of individual and team performance is an essential part of the relationship between a manager or team leader and their reports. There are important benefits for everyone involved and it therefore should be prioritised - even if it feels there is no time, no need, or that circumstances or personalities don't make it easy.

Unfortunately for many managers or team leaders, the issue of performance management is only directly and strategically addressed on an annual basis at performance reviews and appraisals, or when a particular performance issue is causing a real problem. Whilst understandable, this approach is not usually particularly effective - individuals are all too often often left unsure of what's expected of them between annual reviews, they are not properly held to account, and their motivation and productivity is left to decline.

Individuals wishing to improve their ability to manage the performance of others are often interested in finding ways to:

• Improve performance without resorting to using their positional power or authority
• Create and maintain a culture of continuous improvement, striving for excellence and constructive feedback
• Maintain trusting, productive relationships - even with those they need to 'pull-up' or criticise
• Inspire and facilitate real improvements rather than just being heard
• Develop a consistent and fair, yet flexible style of performance management that suits the diversity of needs and personalities within their team
• Develop useful techniques and strategies to motivate and influence those who are not easy to communicate/work with
• Ensure that performance review meetings are more than just'ticking-the-box' exercises - and transform them into productive and highly valued interactions with their team members

It is easy to see why managing poor performance is a responsibility that most managers find at best unpleasant, and at worst, extremely daunting. Unfortunately, this often means that poor performance within the team is not actually managed. Instead it is left to get slowly worse, in the hope that either it will somehow improve on its own, or that the person will eventually decide to leave of their own accord. Allowing poor performance to continue is not only bad news for person themselves, it also affects the credibility of the manager, the overall performance of the team, and the organisation as a whole.

Performance Management Training

Would you or others in your team benefit from training in 'performance management'?

As well as the information and advice availble from the internet and from reading books, there's huge additional benefit to be gained from the interaction, practical exercises and valuable feedback that face-to-face training and coaching gives. In relation to the topic of effective influence H2 offers:

Our bespoke service involves us designing and delivering a tailored course to meet your more individual requirements. Following a short but effective pre-course consultation, we put together a course programme that reflects your specified priorities, and that includes exercises based on real-life case studies/scenarios. This helps us to ensure that the course stays focussed on the issues that are most important to you and your delegates. Click on the "Bespoke Training" button above for more details.

We offer all of our open course and in-house topics as 1:1 training. The cost is dependent upon the topic, location and duration and we offer discounts for two or more sessions. For example, the fees for our standard 1:1 training in Central London covering an open course topic (such as "Performance Management" or "Managing Poor Performance") are £550 +VAT. Click on the "One-to-One Training" button above for more details.