Performance Management - Growth from Cuttings and Dead Heading!

[Jason Stevens]

The Garden Performance Management Technique is quite similar to the business one.

Take a typical sunflower and think about how you would manage their performance over the summer. Assume they have a 6 month objective to achieve. You will therefore performance manage the situation and the sunflower using the performance management cycle.

Now take a typical person and consider how you would manage their performance over the summer. Assume they have a 6 month objective to achieve. You will manage the situation and person using the same cycle as the Sunflower.

 

Now let's go back to stage 1

Setting targets and objectives is the most critical part of the Performance Management Cycle to get right.

 

Quite often, a breakdown in the cycle - a lack of or a surprising increase in the level of performance can be placed on the quality of the target or goal setting right at the beginning.

 

Try to see it as an investment in time early on which should save you lots of time later on to prevent under performance / achievement of things going wrong.

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