Driving Alignment and Engagement with Performance Management

Course Overview 

This course is designed to help HR Managers, Line Managers, and Team Leaders understand and implement performance management as a strategic, continuous, and people-centered process not just a yearly review. It focuses on how to drive business alignment, encourage employee engagement, and build a performance culture through clear expectations, regular feedback, and development-focused conversations.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the purpose and evolving nature of performance management (PM).
• Align individual and team goals with business objectives.
• Conduct impactful performance conversations that inspire and improve.
• Use feedback, recognition, and coaching to drive employee engagement.
• Identify and address performance challenges proactively.
• Integrate performance management with learning, rewards, and career growth.

Training Content

DAY 1 – Rethinking Performance Management

Session 1: Evolution of performance management: From annual review to continuous process

Session 2: The strategic purpose of performance management

Session 3: Common myths and misuses of PM systems

Session 4: The manager’s role in enabling performance

DAY 2 – Engaging Through Feedback and Coaching

Session 5: Types of feedback: real-time, constructive, and appreciative

Session 6: Coaching conversations vs. directive management

Session 7: Models for giving feedback (e.g., SBI, GROW)

Session 8: Building trust through regular performance dialogue

DAY 3 – Building a Culture of Continuous Performance

Session 9: Embedding PM in daily leadership behaviors

Session 10: Making performance management ongoing and agile

Session11: Using technology and tools to streamline PM

Session 12: HR and managers as performance culture champions