With the new year, it's more important than ever to set good habits for performance management. Everyone is busy, but making sure your team is on track can improve staff engagement, build trust, and ensure that we are productive and efficient with the resources that we have. High performing employees should be acknowledged for their efforts and employees struggling to be successful need support and feedback. Having a team meeting and one-on-one discussions once a month gives you a pulse on operations and insight into your team’s needs.
Build good performance management skills as a manager by integrating these habits into your schedule with these tips:
Document during your meetings
Your notes can be simple bullet points that will help you remember what to follow up on—don’t feel like you have to write down everything. Use SuccessFactors’ Continuous Performance Management (CPM) module to track employee 1:1 discussions and achievements that can be accessed during the Performance Appraisal.
Empower your employees to take ownership of their performance
They can track their progress, achievements, and challenges to share with you using Continuous Performance Management (CPM). Reading these updates and thoughts before 1:1 discussions saves time and focuses the discussion on what’s needed or the next steps. Are they struggling with where to start? These are some questions that may help:
- What is the current status of each of my goals? Do I need support on any of them to stay on track?
- Are there any tasks I struggled with this month? Is there anything my manager could be doing to help me tackle these tasks more effectively?
- What were my biggest successes this month?
Stop writing novels to document performance
Remember, you experienced the review period with your employee. When you regularly document efforts and feedback, there’s no need to give an exhaustive recap in evaluations. Keep observations, feedback, and evaluations clear and concise.
The value of appraisals comes from using them as a tool to plan for the next review period. Some efforts need to continue, improve, or stop – use the 1:1 to keep employees on track, celebrate their successes, develop their talent, and plan for a productive new year.
Do you want to learn more about how to efficiently use SuccessFactors for performance management? Attend the Enhanced Goal Planning training to learn about the upgraded SuccessFactors goals module and how to see goal details, create a plan of action, update progress, and more:
Thursday, February 18 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
- Join the Feb. 18 session
- Passcode: vb2f8nb6
- Meeting ID: 273 938 677 489