Performance management training for managers
This is Module 5 of the Manager Development Program.
This module consolidates all previous sessions on setting goals, giving and receiving feedback, and developing team members. The ultimate objective? Equip you to make sound decisions: who to grow, reward, or let go.
WHY Performance management TRAINING MATTERS
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR MANAGERS
Performance management is not about filling forms or ticking boxes. It is about making tough calls, who to grow, who to reward, and when it is time to let someone go. This training explains how managers should lead the performance management process, what to address and what to avoid during formal review meetings, and how to make consistent decisions to retain, develop, or manage team members.
Bottom line is this: Performance management done right builds stronger teams and clearer accountability. Performance management done wrong wastes everyone’s time and creates confusion about standards and expectations.
How to Build a Year-Round Performance Management System
Treating performance management as a yearly HR ritual fails teams and leads to unfair decisions. This module explains how to establish a year-round performance rhythm that tracks both KPIs and competency development, how to clarify manager versus HR responsibilities, and how to use structured planning to ensure performance conversations happen consistently.
How to Balance KPIs and Competencies in Performance Reviews
Most performance reviews focus only on numbers or only on behaviors, resulting in incomplete evaluations. This module explains how to balance metrics with behaviors for fair assessments, how to ensure evaluations reflect both current performance and future potential, and how to weight performance factors appropriately based on role requirements.
How to Conduct Performance Reviews That Drives Decisions
Annual review meetings often become awkward conversations that nobody enjoys. Participants learn what to say and what to avoid during formal reviews, how to structure productive review meetings that motivate rather than deflate, and how to document performance discussions for legal and development purposes.
How to Manage High Performers Without Losing Them
High performers need different management approaches than average contributors. Managers need to recognize and reward impact appropriately, how to avoid one-size-fits-all development approaches, and how to keep your best people engaged and growing within your company.
How to Address Poor Performance Before It Becomes Terminal
Poor performance rarely improves without direct intervention, yet many managers wait too long to act. This module explains how to distinguish skill gaps from behavior issues, when to coach versus when to escalate performance problems, and how to choose between development, reassignment, or exit strategies.
Performance Management Templates and Tools Ready for Immediate Use
Access performance evaluation templates and decision documentation frameworks designed to integrate with existing HR systems and meet legal and compliance requirements.
Support for implementing Performance Management
Implementation support is available. Tailor the takeaways to your specific organizational context to ensure outputs are validated and actionable.
About the Performance management training
This performance management training is part of the Manager Development Program and focuses specifically on the practical skills managers need to lead effective performance processes. Managers will learn why annual-only reviews fail, how to balance quantitative and qualitative performance measures, and how to create performance systems that support consistent and fair decision-making.
The training includes real manager scenarios, common performance management mistakes to avoid, and step-by-step processes that can be implemented immediately. Participants leave the training module with the tools to make fair and defensible people decisions, and the skills to create performance accountability that teams can trust and respect.
Objectives of the performance management for managers training
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Master Performance Evaluation Frameworks
- Learn how to balance KPIs and competencies for complete performance assessment
- Understand how to structure review meetings that motivate rather than disengage employees
- Identify high performers and define clear thresholds for poor performance intervention
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Build Your Performance Management Operating System
- Convert annual review rituals into year-round performance management rhythm
- Set clear expectations for performance tracking, feedback frequency, and review processes
- Identify your high performer and what consititutes poor performance intervention
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Make Confident People Decisions
- Break down performance patterns into promotion, development, or exit recommendations
- Create documentation that supports people decisions with objective facts and examples
- Identify when to coach, reassign, or remove team members based on performance evidence
Performance Management for managers Module – 60 Minutes
Performance management in practice
Tools, Timing, roles & Your performance calendar
Action Plan Demonstration and Application
What Gets Measured KPIs and Competencies
Conducting effective performance Reviews
Managing High Performers
Managing Poor Performance
Performance Decisions
Quiz
Summary
Pilot before scaling
Requirements
Currently managing people or preparing for a management role. Participant needs to have team members to practice with or be preparing to manage people soon.
Who is it for
New Managers
Future leaders
Managers needing reinforcement
Program Overview >The manager development program
Additional modules part of the manager development program
Program
Module 1 : People Management Fundamentals
7 Lessons
Learn what managing people actually means and avoid the common mistakes that derail managers.
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Module 2 : Setting SMART Goals and Objectives
9 Lessons
Replace vague goals with clear objectives that align teams, drive execution, and support performance tracking.
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Module 3: Developing team Members for talent retnetion
8 Lessons
Build development plans that create visible growth paths and reduce the risk of losing high-performing employees.
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Module 4: Feedback & Coaching conversations
12 Lessons
Learn how to handle feedback conversations with structure and confidence to improve performance without conflict.
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Module 5: Performance management in practice
7 Lessons
Apply a performance management process that supports fair evaluations, promotions, and salary decisions.
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Module 6: Recruitment in practice
11 Lessons
Run a structured recruitment process that helps managers make better hiring decisions and onboard the right profiles.
