The New Performance Environment - How to Own Your Own Performance
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The true measure of any organization and its people are the consistent results they deliver and how those results are achieved. It creates an opportunity to shift the old performance model to one where we are leading our own performance. It is your performance, your impact, and your career in your control. Shifting to proactively accepting more responsibility, actively pursuing personal and team performance, and taking control of performance activities and results may not completely eliminate surprises, but it certainly allows you to lead the conversation, control the development activities, and take more ownership of the results.
Making the shift to leading your own performance versus performance that is leader managed or just annually reviewed sounds great, but how do we get there? By proactively leading where you are and developing a personal blueprint for your personal performance actions and behaviors that are aligned to your team’s and organization’s culture, direction and priorities.
This blueprint starts with establishing a foundation of greater awareness by creating and cultivating enhanced organization, situational and self-awareness. From there, you create a framework for focused development that assists in enhancing your professional eligibility (your required job and technical skills), suitability (your natural behavioral traits and characteristics matched to your position) and viability (the actual impact of both your eligibility and suitability combined). Then, ongoing reinforcement and continual enhancements allow you to reach your full potential while increasing your organizational value and relevance.
Once the foundation, framework, and enhancements have been set, establishing an ongoing “performance connection” is the key to evolving and shifting the performance model from leader-directed, mid-year and end-of-year performance reviews to employee-led performance connections that pursue performance. We'll discuss this in much more detail in a few weeks.
If you follow your performance blueprint, by the end of the year there will be no need for managing performance. You will have been enabling and leading your performance all year long. It is your performance, your impact, and your career in your control.
Join us next week as we discuss Negativity Island and the effect just one negative person can have on an organization.
And for more detailed information about how to lead your own performance be sure to check out our Lead Where You Are book or online training! Both have greater insights and give you an actual plan to begin leading where you are.
