Aligning Performance for Success

Source : center for creative leadership

Aligning Performance for Success

Focusing and guiding others in accomplishing work objectives.

Key Actions

• Sets performance goals

Collaboratively works with direct reports to set meaningful performance objectives; sets specific performance goals and identifies measures for evaluating goal achievement.

• Establishes approach

Collaboratively works with direct reports to identify the behaviors, knowledge, and skills required to achieve goals; identifies specific behaviors, knowledge, and skill areas for focus and evaluation.

• Creates a learning environment

As necessary, helps secure resources required to support development efforts; ensures that opportunities for development are available; offers to help individuals overcome obstacles to learning.

• Collaboratively establishes development plans

Collaboratively identifies observation or coaching opportunities, training, workshops, seminars, etc., that will help the individual achieve important goals.

• Tracks performance

Implements a system or uses techniques to track performance against goals and to track the acquisition and use of appropriate behaviors, knowledge, and skills.

• Evaluates performance

Holds regular formal discussions with each direct report to discuss progress toward goals and review performance; evaluates each goal, behavior, knowledge, and skill area.