Learning to Lead
—Linking Performance to Goals
Linking Performance to Strategic Goals
Leaders who manage others have unique responsibilities for the deployment of strategy. They must communicate the case for change in a way that builds excitement and inspires commitment. To keep performance on track, they must approach evaluation and improvement opportunities in a manner that sustains morale, commitment and trust. The following modules are designed to help managers, supervisors and team leaders with these types of responsibilities.
- Moving the Organization Forward: Defining Your Team’s Contribution
Provides a process that leaders can use for presenting the organization’s big-picture goals and encouraging team participation in the development of plans to support business goals.
- Identifying Work Priorities and Setting Verifiable Goals
Delivers a common sense approach that helps employees prioritize work and set goals for highest return and payoff.
- Gaining Commitment to Preset Goals
Provides participants a process for building a compelling case, uncovering concerns, creating commitment and gaining agreement for action on goals that employees had a minimal role in establishing.
- Correcting Performance Problems
Helps participants get individual performance back on track while building motivation for continuous improvement.
- Conducting a Collaborative Performance Review
Provides a process for conducting positive, forward-looking performance evaluations that manage expectations, feature open communication and foster the development of plans for continuous improvement.