
Be welcomed to the course and get a top line overview of the key content.
A few quick tips to help you get the most value from the course.
The key steps in the performance management process.
The critical need for accountability driven by high quality performance objectives.
The reasons why we dislike accountability and the tacts we use to avoid it.
This is why objective setting matters for managers new and old.
Are standards accidentally getting in your way?
S.M.A.R.T. is a tried and tested, classic approach to objective setting, yet doing it well still proves challenging for many managers.
A practice activity to put your learning into use.
Review your learning activity.
Here's a simple method new manages can use to make their objectives SMARTER.
Using these 4 types of objectives well will transform your approach to managing performance.
Time to make it work in your real world of work.
A simple tool to maintain strong focus and clarity.
A tip to help with the Task v Result challenge.
Here's an example of a populated plan to provide further context.
Make sure you don't just focus your objectives on specific tasks. You need to also think about your people.
Make sure you are focusing o the right things.
A quick summary of the key course concepts.
How to download your course completion certificate.
Links to other courses and information.
If you want to get the best out of your team - working with high quality performance objectives is key.
The ability to use performance objectives to provide focus and clarity for your team is one of the foundations of effective management.
This short course will step both new and more experienced managers through a best practice objective setting process. The ability to agree high quality performance objectives is a key step in managing performance of any team or individual.
It will highlight the common traps that even more experienced managers fall into and help you avoid them.
It will enable new managers to hit the objectives deck running.
Applying powerful performance objectives and skills dramatically increase the probability you will:
manage a best performing team
manage a team that know what is expected of them
manage a team that delivers on its objectives and gets results.
The principles are important, but the execution critical. Weak objectives typically result in weak performance.
The course is short and focused so you can refresh your thinking whenever you find yourself agreeing new objectives with team members.
Think of it as a pocket coach. Something you can access quickly and easily whenever you need to.