{"id":123,"date":"2007-08-08T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/08\/the-truth-about-performance-management-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T11:16:58","slug":"the-truth-about-performance-management-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/08\/08\/the-truth-about-performance-management-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Performance Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is performance management about really?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outputs?<\/li>\n<li>Outcomes?<\/li>\n<li>Impacts?<\/li>\n<li>Measurement?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In truth performance management is a <strong>communication process<\/strong> that helps individuals learn and grow in their ability to connect with, and contribute to, the organisation&#8217;s priorities.   This connection between the individual, their values, beliefs, skills and aspirations and the purpose or mission of the business is the real driver for performance improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Just to repeat &#8211; performance management is a <strong>communication process<\/strong> that helps <strong>individuals learn<\/strong> and <strong>grow <\/strong>in their <strong>ability <\/strong>to <strong>connect <\/strong>with, and <strong>contribute <\/strong>to, the <strong>organisation&#8217;s priorities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Too often I see organisations spending time and money developing processes for providing data  on performance without investing in the communication processes (121s, feedback, coaching, delegation, priority management etc.) that turn the data into effective performance management and improvement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Making Progress Through Austerity\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/16\/making-progress-through-austerity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Making Progress Through Austerity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is performance management about really? Outputs? Outcomes? Impacts? Measurement? In truth performance management is a communication process that helps individuals learn and grow in their ability to connect with, and contribute to, the organisation&#8217;s priorities. This connection between the individual, their values, beliefs, skills and aspirations and the purpose or mission of the business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[11,33,47,82,115,123,140,147,148,221,220],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-leadership","category-management","tag-121s","tag-coaching","tag-delegation","tag-feedback","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-one-to-ones","tag-performance-improvement","tag-performance-management","tag-values-2","tag-values","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}