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Performance Management Skills
Performance Management Skills
Skills:
Overview
Coaching
Coaching Styles
Coaching Process
Performance Review Meetings
Coaching: Definition (1)
Helping relationship
Manager
• Interacts with employee and
• Takes active role and interest in
performance
Coaching: Definition (2)
Collaborative ongoing process
• Directing employee behavior
• Motivating employee behavior
• Rewarding employee behavior
• Concern with long-term
performance
Understanding Successful Coaching
Guiding Principles (1)
A good coaching relationship is
essential:
• Trusting and collaborative
• Willing to listen in order to
understand
• Looking for positive aspects of the
employee
• Understanding that coaching is
done with the employee, not to the
employee
Understanding Successful Coaching
Guiding Principles (2)
The Employee is the Source
and Director of change
The Employee is whole and
unique
The Coach is the Facilitator of
the Employee’s growth
Major Coaching Functions:
Give advice
Provide guidance
Provide support
Give confidence
Promote greater competence
Key Coaching Behaviors
Establish developmental
objectives
Communicate effectively
Motivate employees
Document performance
Give feedback
Diagnose performance problems
Develop employees
The Good Coach Questionnaire
Do you listen to your employees?
Do you understand the individual
needs of your employees?
Do you encourage employees to
express their feelings openly?
Do you provide your employees
with tangible and intangible
support for development?
Do your employees know your
expectations about their
performance?
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The Good Coach Questionnaire
(continued)
Do you encourage open and honest
discussions and problem solving?
Do you help your employees create
action plans that will
Solve problems?
Create changes?
People
oriented
Persuader Amiable
Adaptive coaches use all styles
according to employee needs:
Sometimes providing direction
Sometimes persuading
Sometimes showing empathy
Sometimes paying close
attention to rules and established
procedures
Coaching Process
Identify
Developmental
Set
Resources &
Developmenta
Strategies
l Goals
Implement
Strategies
Playing “god”
evidence
Negative feedback is most useful when
it:
Identifies warning signs and
performance problem is still
manageable
Clarifies unwanted behaviors and
consequences
Focuses on behaviors that can be
changed
Comes from a credible source
Is supported by hard data
Feedback Sessions should always
answer: (1)
How is your job going?
to do your job?
Are you adequately trained?
later time
Quick Review
Coaching
Coaching Styles
Coaching Process
Performance Review
Meetings