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RESETTING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT—DEVELOPING YOUR STAFF
Resetting Performance Reviews Manager Briefing & Discussion Sessions Winter 2012 Manager Briefing Sessions Winter 2012 Copyright ©2012 by The Segal Group, Inc., parent of The Segal Company and its Sibson Consulting Division. All Rights Reserved. Copyright ©2008 by The Segal Group, Inc., parent of The Segal Company and its Sibson Consulting Division. All Rights Reserved
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This Year’s Cycle Phase 1
Clarifying and enhancing definitions of ratings Resetting how ratings were used Phase 2 Focus on goal setting Merit increase differentiation Phase 3 Staff development Schedule meetings with your direct reports and draft reviews Submit salary recommendations by May 4th Finalize performance review and hold conversations – due by April 2nd
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Today’s Agenda What do we mean by “Development”?
Group Discussion—Your Most Memorable Development Experience Your Role as a Manager A Question of Balance—Learning Orientation and Performance Orientation A Debrief Tool Exercise Providing Feedback Preparing for this Year’s Cycle 2 2
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Everyone Can Benefit From Development
Expanding expertise for future growth and advancement Building upon strengths—skills, knowledge, performance, and deepening experiences Filling the gaps—skills, knowledge, performance
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Exercise: A Memorable Development Experience
Reflect back on important development experiences and determine what made them memorable Purpose Consider the types of development we just discussed Think back on a development experience in your career Describe the situation. What made it memorable and why? What did you get out of it? We’ll share some of our experiences Overview TIME Think about experiences with colleagues, mentors, task forces, as well as supervisors Example if necessary – At American Express, goal to increase participation in savings plan My role to reach out to everyone in division (1500). Had to develop presentation and conduct 30 session over one week Helped presentation development skills and speaking skills – key to next job 10 minutes 4
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Your Role as a Manager Managers play important roles at Northeastern and defining the expected competencies is essential. An effective manager at Northeastern … Pays attention to and addresses others’ capabilities and development needs; helps identify and close gaps Effectively gives and receives feedback for growth Seeks feedback about his or her own performance as a manager; learns from experience and mistakes Models desired behavior for peers and subordinates Delegates for the development of others—encourages others to make decisions, take responsibilities, and learn from it; “Gets out of the way” Let’s take a minute and review the basics. No matter what your role is as a manager, these are core competencies. This definition comes from Northeastern’s Leadership Competencies, a set of competencies that describe what it takes to be successful leaders at Northeastern. Note that this competency focuses on developing yourself as well as developing others. As participants in this session, you need to wear two hats, and think about development from both a personal perspective (what can I be doing to develop?) as well as from a manager’s perspective (how can I help my staff develop?). Can you tie back these key points to any of the development themes from our opening discussion? Use the Manager Self-Review to assess your strengths and plan improvements
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Your Role as A Manager continued
Get to know your staff member Goals, interests and aspirations Strengths and areas for improvement How they learn How they see themselves Use the Employee Self-Assessment form and process to get to know your staff member’s perspectives Actively support and encourage their development Help them plan and stick to the plan Provide resources and opportunities as appropriate Tailor to individual needs and styles How does he/she learn: Visual, auditory or kinesthetic? What is his/her focus: Developing or achieving? Provide clear, supportive, frequent feedback Positive to reinforce what should be continued Constructive to redirect or change performance
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Development Happens Every Day
90% of development opportunities can happen anytime—look for developmental, “coaching moments” Consider the context Identify goals and needs at the individual and department level Use your direct reports’ self-assessments Find on-the-job opportunities If appropriate, find stretch opportunities outside own area 20% Feedback Courses and Reading 10% 70% On the Job Experiences, Tasks and Problem Solving Now let’s think about actually planning development Here is a pie chart that shows the relative effectiveness of various types of development What would you think the largest piece represents? Adapted from research by M.M. Lombardo and R.W. Eichinger for the Center for Creative Leadership
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PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION
A Question of Balance Focus: Improving and learning. Implication: “Mistakes” viewed as a part of the learning process and therefore not bad LEARNING ORIENTATION Focus: Achievement and getting ahead Implication: “Mistakes” viewed as failures and to be avoided PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION Research has shown that people react differently to mistakes – depending upon their perspectives. It’s helpful to know this and understand your staff’s perspectives In the end it’s a balance and people need to be in both zones 1 Adapted from Dweck, D.S., & Leggett, E.L. (1988), A Social-Cognitive Approach to Motivation and Personality. Psychological Review, Volume 95, No 2 pp
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Fostering an Environment of Learning and Development
A DEBRIEF TOOL What? To reflect on what happened, what worked and what could be improved upon Why? Supports learning orientation and facilitates improvement Lessens “scariness” of feedbacks Creating learning and development environment requires self-reflection – whether group or individual Debriefing is a simple but effective way to support a learning environment When? As soon as possible after the event—memories are fresh, more efficient than adding to a “To Do” list How? Can be a group discussion, or individual exercise Identify and define action items and follow up
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Fostering an Environment of Learning and Development
Customize the debrief Sample questions: What happened? What did you think, feel, say, and do? What could you have done differently? What did others say and do? What was effective? What was not so effective? How can you learn from this experience? Not every debrief is the same – customize your questions to the situation The goal is to have everyone think about their role – What they did? or didn’t do?, What could be done differently? or better? The intent is to learn from the experience and use that information in the future to improve effectiveness
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Exercise: Providing Real Time Feedback
Purpose To practice providing feedback to a colleague Overview Within each group, one volunteer stands facing the others in the group. Place an empty container 3 to 5 feet behind the volunteer—out of view of the volunteer The volunteer tosses crumpled balls of paper into the container behind him/her without looking, aiming to get 3 in. Group members provide feedback to guide the volunteer Repeat exercise with a new volunteer— move box to a different position for the new volunteer TIME Karen Let’s debrief What did you experience? What was helpful? What might have been better? 20 minutes 11
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Feedback Framework© Feedback is essential to a learning and performance culture Clear, specific, real-time works best Provide both positive and constructive Framework assists in preparing to deliver feedback effectively Introduce the framework as a means to plan and deliver feedback Use this framework to organize your thoughts and plan how you will deliver feedback To guide on-going feedback as well as formal performance reviews On-going strongly encouraged Needed to avoid surprises Positive and constructive Help build culture of feedback Expectations Observations Assessments Outcomes 12 12 12
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Top 5 Take-Aways 1. Everyday activities create opportunities for feedback and development 2. 70% of development occurs through job experiences, tasks and problems solving 3. Create a learning environment to balance with performance— use the debrief tool, encourage self-reflection 4. Offer effective feedback and reinforcement—clear, specific, real time 5. Use what has proven effective—employee self-assessments
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The Performance Management Cycle
I. Performance Planning/ Expectation Setting Development can be planned here III. End of Year Evaluation And is discussed here II. Ongoing Review and Feedback And takes place here
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Using the Performance Appraisal to Document Development Goals and Proposed Actions
IV. DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSIONS A. Recommendations for Development (List specific recommendations to facilitate continued employee development for professional growth.) B. Performance Improvement Requirements (List specific areas in which performance did not meet expectations and improvement is necessary.) C. Actions to be taken by Employee/Supervisor (i.e., related to specific recommendations and/or requirements in either A or B above) Development activities that specifically support the University and/or Department goals? V. OVERALL PERFORMANCE RATING Consistently Exceeds Frequently Exceeds Fully Meets Partially Meets Does Not Meet* * Strongly recommend consultation with Human Resources Management VI. EMPLOYEE COMMENTS (Optional)
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Wrap-up – Questions, Comments, Thoughts?
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