People manager guide: Effective performance management
Practical guidance and links to interactive tools to help people managers effectively manage performance
Practical guidance and links to interactive tools to help people managers effectively manage performance
Performance management has no standard definition. It can describe setting objectives, providing feedback, improving performance, supporting learning, development, reward and recognition and career progression. It also covers managing underperformance.
Effective performance management can support employees to perform well, maximise their contribution and help them learn and develop. Effective performance management can also help to motivate people.
Effective performance management processes can help managers to:
Together these benefits can help to support employee engagement, motivation and a positive team culture.
This guide provides line managers with practical information on how to undertake effective performance management activities.
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Download a range of tools to help effectively manage performance
In this blog, Lisa Hogan, Membership Development and Communications Manager at the CIPD in Ireland, looks at some of the most important questions organisations should be asking about performance, productivity, trust and wellbeing. She explains how the themes explored at the CIPD in Ireland Thrive Conference can help organisations build the conditions for lasting success.
Follow this pathway of practical tools to build and present an evidence-led business case for learning. Work through the three structured stages, one step and one conversation at a time.
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