Development review and performance management systems
Performance management is becoming an increasingly important element of people management within organisations.
The demise of the default retirement age, changes to job roles, redundancy situations and increased use of technology can all mean that there is likely to be an increasing need to use capability procedures.
Robust and reliable systems, understood and properly followed by managers, form a vital part of performance management. People are becoming more resentful and intolerant of poor performance by other team members and this can lead to demotivation if left unactioned by a manager.
Amethyst works with organisations to encourage:-
- direction and focus
- objective setting
- definition of quality standards
- “ground rules” on behaviours
- managers’ understanding of their role in performance management
- helping people to understand their value and contribution
- informal action to “nip poor performance issues in the bud”
Development reviews (appraisals)
Such reviews play an important role in managing people. Amethyst has extensive experience of working with organisations.
Sometimes the role has been from inception, helping to design the paperwork, policy and procedures prior to training all
managers and staff in its introduction.
On other occasions the form and procedures have already been agreed and we have undertaken the training of all relevant staff.
Clients for such work have included private sector clients, local authorities and schools, voluntary organisations, NHS and several of the colleges within Cambridge University.