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Hub You - The What, Why And How Of Performance Management
Attendance Recording System allows the companies to manage, monitor and produce reports of employee’s attendance. This system fits easily into the business structure and gives you greater control over your staff. It is mainly used by companies which have more than hundreds or thousands of employees. They are used in areas such as healthcare, financial services, transportation or distribution, retail management, government, manufacturing, and hospitality. Attendance rec
- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance.
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Undertaken consistently, effective performance management will help you retain the right people, improve their performance and the overall performance of your business.
Conversely – the failure to performance manage your team can result in losing your best people, keeping the wrong type of people and the consequent stagnation of your business.
But what does this all mean within the context of a small business?
WHAT IS IT?
- Ensuring each of your team is clear of what is expected of them in terms of both outcomes and behaviour
- Giving constructive feedback on an ongoing basis – positive and negative – so people know how they are doing on a day to day basis
- Conducting a formal appraisal annually to review their progress
- Conducting some kind of performance review every six months
- Challenging and stretching your staff to improve their performance and reach their potential
- Helping under performers to improve and get ‘back on track’
WHY DO IT?
- It gives your people clarity as to how they are doing and what they need to do to deliver the business plan
- From a legal standpoint, it is a key part of practising good relations with your staff and minimising any legal risk to yourself
- It helps you improve the performance and morale of your team
- It helps you grow your business by stretching and developing your people
- It helps you retain your top performers as they a) are being developed and b) see you are willing to tackle under performing members of the team
- It helps you manage out the people who are not right for the business in an appropriate manner
- It’s also the right and fair thing to do for your people
HOW DO I DO IT?
- Ensure everyone has a clear brief about the expectations of their role and the measures of success
- Diarise formal annual appraisals and 6 monthly performance reviews
- Conduct a review at the end of three months for all new starters
- On a day-to-day basis, catch people doing things well and praise them for it. You will see them walk away with a spring in their step and be pleased to be working for you
- Speak to people informally about lateness, absence and deteriorating work standards or attitudes as soon as it starts to become a problem (i.e. “nip it in the bud” as we say in the UK)
- Be consistent by then following these up more formally if things do not change
- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance.
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- Giving constructive feedback on an ongoing basis – positive and negative – so people know how they are doing on a day to day basis
- Conducting a formal appraisal annually to review their progress
- Conducting some kind of performance review every six months
- Challenging and stretching your staff to improve their performance and reach their potential
- Helping under performers to improve and get ‘back on track’
WHY DO IT?
- It gives your people clarity as to how they are doing and what they need to do to deliver the business plan
- From a legal standpoint, it is a key part of practising good relations with your staff and minimising any legal risk to yourself
- It helps you improve the performance and morale of your team
- It helps you grow your business by stretching and developing your people
- It helps you retain your top performers as they a) are being developed and b) see you are willing to tackle under performing members of the team
- It helps you manage out the people who are not right for the business in an appropriate manner
- It’s also the right and fair thing to do for your people
HOW DO I DO IT?
- Ensure everyone has a clear brief about the expectations of their role and the measures of success
- Diarise formal annual appraisals and 6 monthly performance reviews
- Conduct a review at the end of three months for all new starters
- On a day-to-day basis, catch people doing things well and praise them for it. You will see them walk away with a spring in their step and be pleased to be working for you
- Speak to people informally about lateness, absence and deteriorating work standards or attitudes as soon as it starts to become a problem (i.e. “nip it in the bud” as we say in the UK)
- Be consistent by then following these up more formally if things do not change
- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance.
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.” E.V. Lucas1. Have an agenda. Start out with an agenda handed out to the appropriate people at least 72 hours in advance, listing time, date, and place of meeting.2. Set ground rules. Let everyone know at the beginning of the meeting that you specifically plan to stick with the allotted time frames and topics in the agenda. This is the key to
- It helps you improve the performance and morale of your team
- It helps you grow your business by stretching and developing your people
- It helps you retain your top performers as they a) are being developed and b) see you are willing to tackle under performing members of the team
- It helps you manage out the people who are not right for the business in an appropriate manner
- It’s also the right and fair thing to do for your people
HOW DO I DO IT?
- Ensure everyone has a clear brief about the expectations of their role and the measures of success
- Diarise formal annual appraisals and 6 monthly performance reviews
- Conduct a review at the end of three months for all new starters
- On a day-to-day basis, catch people doing things well and praise them for it. You will see them walk away with a spring in their step and be pleased to be working for you
- Speak to people informally about lateness, absence and deteriorating work standards or attitudes as soon as it starts to become a problem (i.e. “nip it in the bud” as we say in the UK)
- Be consistent by then following these up more formally if things do not change
- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance.
Even the most meticulous and experienced human resources professionals find that handling payroll can be a headache. For many small businesses, payroll services offer an attractive and valuable alternative to in-house processing. They can provide a less expensive, simpler means of paying employees, filing taxes, and performing other essential but mundane tasks.Is a payroll service right for your small business?Extremely small firms with a stable, s
- Diarise formal annual appraisals and 6 monthly performance reviews
- Conduct a review at the end of three months for all new starters
- On a day-to-day basis, catch people doing things well and praise them for it. You will see them walk away with a spring in their step and be pleased to be working for you
- Speak to people informally about lateness, absence and deteriorating work standards or attitudes as soon as it starts to become a problem (i.e. “nip it in the bud” as we say in the UK)
- Be consistent by then following these up more formally if things do not change
- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance.
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- Work with under performers to agree a plan and support them in changing
- Equally, set out the consequences of not changing and follow these through
- Record all formal discussions. For example, if you speak to someone about their poor performance and agree some actions, it’s good practice to have a written record of what was discussed and agreed
- Be authentic - stick to the facts, be honest, be straight
The key thing is to be consistent and fair in this process. It demonstrates that you are not shy about praising people when they do well, yet are still honest and constructive when managing underperformance. It also provides you with a process to identify and then remove obstacles that may be getting in the way of your team excelling and enjoying their work.
Performance management plays a crucial part in building trust and credibility with your team. In the same way that building trust and credibility is the foundation of retaining customers and clients – so it is with retaining staff.
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