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Goal setting provides an opportunity for managers to help employees meet both their performance and professional development. Clearly set goals allow team members to be focused and committed to achieving the end result. They can also motivate employees to organize their time efficiently to maximize productivity. In this podcast, Associate Dean of SAIS Development and Alumni Relations, Kim Moron, discusses the importance of effectively managing employees’ goals.
Becoming a great manager of employees requires managers to expand their focus from “How can I get excellent performance out of my team members?” to “How can I get excellent performance out of my team members while helping them grow?” In this podcast, Director of WorkLife and Community Programs, Ian Reynolds, discusses the importance of employee recognition and ways managers and employees can be recognized in the workplace. In this podcast, Senior Director of HR Shared Business Services, Wanda Karangelen, discusses the importance of developing employees.
Most organizations link performance management to pay. While pay is one of the more common methods of rewarding employees, and while many supervisors would like to be able to give larger increases to their high performing employees, the fact is that budgets must also be considered. So the question is: how can employees be rewarded in times when the budget for pay increases is low or non-existent? Employee recognition is not just a nice thing to do for people. It is a communication tool that reinforces and rewards the most important outcomes people create for themselves and for the organization. In this podcast, Director of WorkLife and Community Programs, Ian Reynolds, discusses the importance of employee recognition and ways managers and employees can be recognized in the workplace.
In the middle of the performance cycle, managers and employees should hold a checkpoint meeting. This is the time for you to make sure managers and employees are on track to meet goals and receive feedback. Feedback can happen formally or informally, but it’s recommended that you and your supervisor meet, at least once, about half way through the year to formally review your goals and to check on your progress towards meeting them. It’s also a good to time to discuss any changes in priorities or initiatives that might have an impact on the relevance of your or your team’s goals or priorities. In this podcast, Senior Organization Effectiveness Consultant, Anne Moore discusses the importance of the check point meeting in the annual performance cycle.
Managers are responsible for giving timely performance feedback to employees. These feedback conversations should occur at the very least, in the annual performance review and even as frequently as on a monthly basis. However, there are multiple reasons managers feel there’s not enough time to fit these conversations into their busy schedules. One way to overcome the time deficit is to have 10- minute check- ins. In this podcast, Senior Organization Effectiveness Consultant, Anne Moore discusses the benefits of the having 10- minute check ins.