The Success Zone

Image by Roland Urbanek via Flickr Performance management has five major steps.  First, the development of an over-riding purpose, the values that underpin the purpose, the standards of behaviour that express the values and a strategy to achieve the purpose with annual implementation plans. Second, the selection and recruitment of new staff in line with [...]

Image via Wikipedia Some weeks ago now I talked about feedback in various forms.  I should now like to be a bit more systematic in looking at these.  Essentially there are four forms of feedback that are helpful: “If I know what I am trying to do because I have clear, over-riding goals then knowing [...]

Image via Wikipedia One of the ways we can look at performance management is to view it as being made up of five steps.  The first step is development of an over-riding purpose, the values and, perhaps, standards of behaviour that are associated with it, and a long-term strategy with annual implementation plans.  The second [...]

Image via Wikipedia I was discussing learning and performance appraisal with an academic in a university education department in England this week and he said that one of the things that he liked about what we were doing was that we had built closed feedback loops into the process we were designing.  This means that [...]