WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The Challenge
Most employees feel that their performance appraisal and the ongoing feedback process is done to them.
This session is designed to show your employees that they can do more than wait for their manager to provide feedback and direction on how they are doing, and where they are going. The techniques we discuss will empower your employees to engage in a self-driven process of seeking out feedback and finding in place job enrichment opportunities.
Learning Objective
Attendees will learn a simple and practical self-assessment process that more clearly identifies their performance contributions, strengths, opportunities for development and career goals. They will also practice techniques for requesting feedback and direction from their manager, peers and customers.
Through the use of real life stories, examples, interactive exercises and simple tools participants will acquire new skills to take a more active role in self-managing their performance and career. Overall, your employees will learn a new approach to understanding performance effectiveness and the importance of receiving and seeking out feedback through an experiential session that will allow them to:
- Think about performance effectiveness within the context of their career: Where are they now? Where do they want to go? How will they get there?
- Play a more active role in managing their career by expanding awareness of their own interests, strengths, opportunities for growth, and discovering ways to gather key information from external resources.
- Consider their contributions and development within the context of what is happening within their functional area (department), the organization and their industry.
- Assess their potential through an employee-focused visual model, which demonstrates that performance is comprised of Behaviors (how one conducts themselves on the job) and Job Competence (responsibilities, technical skills and goal achievement).
- Demonstrate how the organization's competency model, mission and value statements can be a useful and measurable tool to assess overall job competence.
- Understand how their contributions impact the organization, peers and their desired career paths.
- Embrace the principle that most employees who progress to positions of greater responsibility do so by seizing opportunities that allow them to demonstrate how they are ready for greater responsibility. This is also known as in place development.
- Realize the importance of seeking out feedback as opposed to waiting for their manager to initiate such discussions.
- Become more comfortable asking for feedback from peers, internal customers and managers.
- Learn appropriate ways to provide feedback to others (boss and peers).
Who Should Attend?
This session is appropriate for all employees.