Stop Reviewing Your Performance, Start Pursuing Your Performance
It starts with you changing your personal model for performance, even if you exist in an organization where the primary feedback process is a performance review conducted 1-2 times per year with 80-90% of the feedback focused on past performance and little time devoted to planning or developing future performance and potential.
To truly sustain that next level of performance success in this complex and ever-changing business environment it requires ongoing performance connections, not in just once or twice a year review cycles. In Leading Performance, these connections are employee led, not manager led, and consist of 15-20 minute conversations that establish an ongoing dialogue of forward feedback focused on performance clarity, alignment, and accountability. The goal of each performance connection is to ensure progress towards delivering your commitments and meeting the expectations you proactively set with your leader in each previous session.
With each performance connection, you should be engaging in discussion and development with your manager around gaining better organizational, situational, and self-awareness and enhancing your eligibility, suitability, and viability as highlighted in our preceding leading performance blogs. To prepare for these performance connections you can loosely use this ratio of time in your twenty minute discussions. Five minutes on progress since last connection. Five minutes on current opportunities and any barriers and your perceived impact to date. And the final ten minutes should focus on establishing and aligning your next steps of commitments and setting new expectations.
The goal of each performance connection is to ensure progress towards delivering your commitments and meeting the expectations you proactively set with your leader in each previous session.
If you struggle on what to discuss, here are a few examples:
Organizational, situational and self-awareness
Eligibly, suitability and viability
Personal behavior strengths and opportunities
Current and future potential
Teamwork and your impact
Your legacy and what you want that to reflect
From each performance connection, you and your leader should leave with greater performance clarity, complete alignment, clear accountability on your commitments, and an understanding of what to expect and future desired impact.
Lead performance, make your connection today.
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OCTOBER 24 - Leading Performance Overview
Leading Performance Release Date
October 24, 2017
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
