Managing Employee Performance

In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll explore proven frameworks and strategies for aligning employee performance with business objectives. You’ll learn how to set clear goals using OKRs and SMART principles, monitor progress, and evaluate both qualitative and quantitative results. You’ll see practical examples and simple tools that make performance management easier and more effective. 

You’ll also learn how to diagnose performance issues, sustain high levels of achievement, and apply best practices for rewarding and recognizing accomplishments. Finally, you’ll explore how to adapt these processes for remote and hybrid teams, ensuring consistent performance management across any work environment. 

Topics covered include: 

• Defining performance management 

• Identifying the benefits of a structured continuous performance management approach 

• Recognizing the manager’s and the employee’s role in driving employee performance 

• Using the Objective and Key Results (OKR) approach to creating goals 

• Applying the SMART frameworks to set effective goals 

• Listing guidelines for setting goals 

• Distinguishing between monitoring progress and performance evaluation 

• Identifying best practices for monitoring progress using this model 

• Evaluating and summarizing OKRs using a standard format 

• Evaluating qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance 

• Diagnosing potential causes of poor performance 

• Identifying challenges unique to remote and hybrid performance management 

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