Performance Management for Managers Training
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
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 teaches you how to lead the performance management process effectively, what to say and what to avoid during formal review meetings, and how to make confident decisions to keep, develop, or manage your 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. You will learn how to set up a year-round performance rhythm that tracks both KPIs and competency development, how to clarify manager versus HR roles, and how to use your calendar to ensure consistent performance conversations happen.
How to Balance KPIs and Competencies in Performance Reviews
Most performance reviews focus only on numbers or only on behaviors, creating incomplete evaluations. You will learn how to balance metrics with behaviors for fair assessments, how to ensure evaluations reflect both current performance and future potential, and how to weight different performance factors based on role requirements.
How to Conduct Performance Reviews That Drives Decisions
Annual review meetings often become awkward conversations that nobody enjoys. You will 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. You will learn how 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 team structure.
How to Address Poor Performance Before It Becomes Terminal
Poor performance rarely improves without direct intervention, but most managers wait too long to act. You will learn 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 You Can Use Immediately
Get templates for performance evaluations and decision documentation frameworks that integrate with your existing HR systems and legal requirements.
Support for implementing Performance Management
Any questions, support for implementation, I am here. Tailor the takeaways for your specific work context to ensure you validate the outputs.
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. You will learn why annual-only reviews fail, how to balance quantitative and qualitative performance measures, and how to create performance systems that work.
The training includes real manager scenarios, common performance management mistakes to avoid, and step-by-step processes you can implement immediately.Everything is designed around the Monday morning test – if you cannot use it immediately with your team, it does not belong in this training.
You will leave this training with the confidence to lead performance discussions that drive improvement, the tools to make fair and defensible people decisions, and the skills to create performance accountability that your team trusts and respects.
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 deflate people
- Apply consistent evaluation standards that support fair and defensible decisions
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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 your people decisions with 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
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Requirements
Currently managing people or preparing for a management role. You need to have team members to practice with or be preparing to manage people soon.
Who is it for
New Managers
Future leaders
Organizations to train managers
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Additional modules part of the manager development program
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Module 1 : People Management Fundamentals
7 Lessons
Learn what managing people actually means and avoid the mistakes that derail new managers
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Module 2 : Setting SMART Goals and Objectives
9 Lessons
Stop writing vague goals that confuse your team and start creating objectives that drive action.
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Module 3: Developing team Members for talent retnetion
8 Lessons
Create development plans that actually develop people and keep your best talent from leaving.
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Module 4: Feedback & Coaching conversations
12 Lessons
Master the feedback skills that turn difficult conversations into performance improvements.
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Module 5: Performance management in practice
7 Lessons
Learn the performance management process that makes promotion decisions fact based.
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