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Today's workplace is all about the constant push for innovation, adaptability, and results. And yesterday's strategies? They're relics in the face of new challenges, diverse teams, and the ever-present demand for growth.
The traditional annual review is a perfect example of that: the goal-setting that somehow misses the mark, the feedback that goes in circles. Need we say more?
With a competitive talent market still reeling from the Great Resignation, it is more important than ever for companies to look inward and invest in performance development for an engaged and thriving workforce.
Questo articolo lo spiega:
- What performance development is.
- How you can embrace its many advantages in your organization.
You will also find actionable strategies and methods for switching from traditional performance reviews to a development-focused system.
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📈 What is performance development?
Performance development is a continuous and structured process aiming to enhance an individual's skills, knowledge, and overall work performance.
It is a proactive, growth-focused strategy for improving employee effectiveness rather than focusing on past performance.
Performance development begins with clear communication about expectations and goal setting, followed by tactics that empower employees to succeed.
These methods generally include ongoing training, regular feedback, and forward-looking development paths.
"Performance management by philosophy needs to be more developed for the employee development and to monitor and track performance and development and not really a tool to decide employee salary revision." Ajay Ambewadikar, Country HR Manager at CNH Industrial.
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What is the difference between performance management and performance development?
The terms performance management and performance development are often used interchangeably. Still, there are some important differences when comparing the two.
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The performance development definition focuses more on planning and looks to the future. Performance management, on the other hand, is retrospective.
Performance management concerns itself more with making the most of a workforce's current capabilities rather than nurturing the growth of individual employees. Performance management relies heavily on evaluation, using assessment and performance reviews to measure employee skill and productivity.
That data is then used to manage employees, often like parts in a machine (the machine being the organization as a whole).
While not mutually exclusive, performance management sometimes limits itself by viewing individual employees as a static data set rather than dynamic workers with the potential to improve.
Performance management is to checkers, as performance development is to chess. In the latter, much more attention must be given to each piece's differing values and unique possibilities.
"Performance development is an active partnership between the managers, employees, and the Institute that enables MIT's diverse staff to be fully engaged and reach their full potential." HR MIT.
🧩 5 Key components of performance development
There is no universal solution to performance development as each industry, company, and position faces unique responsibilities and challenges.
However, most processes to develop performance include these five components.
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Valutazioni delle prestazioni
Whether you manage or develop employee performance, an appraisal is necessary to understand each scenario accurately. Performance development reviews should cover specific topics that may be above and beyond a basic employee review. Specifically, you must identify growth opportunities.
Unlocking an employee's potential is the primary goal of performance development, and reviews are a great time to identify areas for improvement. Again, these areas will vary depending on the company and role.
Still, you are trying to gauge an employee's skill ceiling, not simply their past performance.
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➡️ Learn how to conduct a performance development review focusing on growth potential.
Continuous feedback
Developing employee performance is not something that happens overnight or after one meeting. You must offer constant and consistent support to nurture an individual's growth.
Continuous employee feedback ensures that your subject is on track and has everything they need to reach their performance and development goals. This generally requires 1:1 meetings, regular check-ins, and real-time progress monitoring.
You can't expect employees to develop their skill set independently, even with an LXP.
Continuous performance development requires long-term support from management.
➡️ Learn about the importance of coaching skills and feedback training for managers.
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Definizione degli obiettivi
A crucial part of the performance review and feedback interactions is setting and working toward goals. This isn't just assigning ambiguous performance benchmarks or productivity quotas.\
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It should be a two-way conversation, marrying the employee's career goals with the company's best interests.
A shrewd people operations manager can create performance development plans that motivate employees with personal growth opportunities while simultaneously improving their contributions to the organization. It is truly a win-win situation.
➡️ Learn how to set meaningful, impactful SMART goals that get results.
Sviluppo delle competenze
After the analysis and strategizing are complete, you are ready to put your plan into action. The "how" of performance development separates good HR and training from middling results.
A skill gap analysis can help you identify which areas to focus on, giving you obstacles to overcome so the subject can reach the next level of professional development. This, once again, depends on the individual and their current role.
Training, mentorship, and open-ended problem-solving are all strong possibilities for developing the competencies an employee needs to advance.
➡️ Learn how to create competency development plans for a stronger workforce.
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Motivazione e impegno
Effective upskilling in the modern workplace requires more than just training material. Motivating employees on their performance development is vital to long-term success.
Incorporating career pathing into a performance development plan certainly provides incentives, but maintaining strong engagement is the major challenge for many leaders and people operations pros.
There are countless strategies for employee engagement, such as:
- apprendimento sociale;
- gamification;
- riconoscimento;
- tangible rewards;
- promotions.
Employing appropriate incentives will motivate workers and further improve ROI from their training and development.
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🪜 How to switch from traditional performance reviews to a development-focused system in 7 steps
The post-Covid era has seen rapid evolution in employee management and people operations, especially among knowledge workers. With an increasingly competitive hiring arena, companies must step into the future or get left in the past.
Relying exclusively on the traditional review process is one of the first bad habits companies need to drop if they want to stay on top.
Here's why and how to transition to development-focused performance reviews.
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Assess the current system
Just like with worker performance, you can't come up with a strategy if you don't understand your starting point accurately. Take a step back and objectively analyze your current process, with an eye toward any shortcomings or roadblocks that might hinder progress.
To gather objective feedback, poll employees, management, and HR to identify critical goals and pain points.
You can create a list of likes/dislikes and wants/needs to build a framework for your new and improved system.
Start at the top
While everyone's feedback is valuable, your first focus should be senior management and team leads. Ensuring stakeholder buy-in and relying on the wisdom of company leaders will set you on a more reliable bearing.
That isn't to say, collaborate with management and ignore the primary performance development group. But you want to avoid formulating a plan that goes against the outlook or direction of those at the helm.
Offer training and education
At the core of any strategic employee development plan is training and education. The trick is finding and delivering this content in a feasible and engaging way. This requires everyone to be on the same page, understanding the new process, and giving leadership the tools they need to empower their teams.
Learning management systems and learning experience platforms are becoming the norm for modern companies embracing a learning culture.
These tools allow people operations to deliver effective, flexible, and personalized training on a scale that simply wasn't possible with traditional methods. Not only that, but microlearning, gamification, and social learning can drastically impact employee engagement and training results.
🧑🎓 On the market for an LMS or an LXP? Check out analyses of the best learning experience platforms and the best learning management systems.
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Establish clear objectives
A frequent problem with traditional performance reviews is insufficient communication and unclear expectations. Employees try their best to be good workers and do what they think they're supposed to do, but they don't always know exactly what that is.
Vinod Bidwaik, author of Vitality in Human Resource: Adding human dimensions in HR processes, put it plainly:
"Transparency and openness are key to any effective performance management system."
Employees should be fully aware of the metrics they are being graded on and expectations in their roles. This is why it is important to include them in development conversations, not just assign generic target numbers.
Define what you want to achieve with development-focused reviews, such as skill growth and career advancement for the subject.
Take advantage of automation
You will need to leverage modern technology to modernize your performance development procedures.
Traditional performance management was often ineffective because it simply wasn't feasible to deliver personalized support on a large scale. The result was generic, blanket training seminars.
With the help of automation software and AI, tools like Zavvy can significantly improve the capabilities of human resources professionals. Personalized learning, career pathing, and progress monitoring can be managed on a massive scale in a fraction of the time.
Zavvy also offers expert workshops to train managers of other people operations professionals.
By combining science-backed consultation and cutting-edge technology, Zavvy can transform the way you develop employee performance and so much more.
➡️ Learn more about AI performance management and other performance management tools.
Pilot the new system
A major obstacle for many HR departments when reinventing extensive processes is feeling like they need a perfect system before they replace the old one. Not only will your performance development plan never be perfect, it will never even be complete.
As your workforce grows and improves, so too will the company. With a culture of learning established, hungry employees will need an endless supply of new content to fuel their upskilling, cross-skilling, and advancement within the company.
This may sound intimidating, but a company is a living, breathing thing, and your role will directly contribute to its growth. Don't be afraid to start slow, soft launch the new system, or stagger the rollout to specific groups at a time.
Over time, your process will expand to fill in the gaps and satisfy the needs of new projects as they emerge.
Collect feedback and iterate
One of the most efficient and effective ways to continue to refine the review process is by gathering feedback from those involved. This can happen during any step of the process, including at the end of reviews.
Use collected feedback to make improvements and additions whenever feasible. This not only takes away a lot of the guesswork but embraces the modern thinking that performance reviews are a team effort.
At this point, you can roll out your new process to the entire company and continue to fine-tune it with ample input.
🔢 How do you measure the success of a performance development system? 9 Key metrics
It is easy to get engrossed in the data and theory behind performance development planning, losing sight of the real objective: building a more capable workforce.
Below are some metrics you can use to track progress and measure the overall effectiveness of your process.
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Skill development & uptake
Upskilling is one of the most important and direct measures of performance development. The acquisition and application of new skills to improve employee performance is arguably the only metric that really matters. After all, how else can you develop performance?
To measure this, use your skill gap analysis to identify missing skills.
As employees acquire these skills, note the timeframe and resources it took for that achievement. This data lets you easily show what skills were developed in any given period.
➡️ Learn about core competencies and core competencies for managers.
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Time to competency
Time to competency is a measure of how long it takes for employees to become proficient in a skill set or role. This term is often used in reference to new hires but can apply to learning at any stage.
A valuable metric for tracking the effectiveness of a performance development system is how long it takes employees to learn. This isn't just how long it takes to learn new skills, as in the metric above. It can refer to new hires reaching target productivity or promotions conquering their new roles. Improving time to competency saves your organization time and money.
Performance goal achievement
A simple but meaningful measure of your system's success is the ratio and time in which workers are meeting the goals you set. If a high percentage is falling short of their goals, you may need to reassess your expectations or methods.
However, if everyone is achieving their goals, you may want to investigate whether those milestones should be set higher. It is also vital that employee performance goals have a measurable impact on your company's success.
Feedback frequency
While it may not be a direct indicator of the quality of your system, feedback frequency can be a telling data set for many other considerations. If upward or downward feedback is not occurring at recommended frequencies, it may indicate the cause of other performance issues.
360-Degree feedback scores
As employees develop their skills, it makes them more capable team members. The result is often better feedback scores from peers and supervisors.
Analyzing 360-degree feedback trends can offer valuable insight into many aspects of your organization and individual employees, including their development.
Tassi di promozione
Promotions are one of the easiest goals to align during performance development. Employees are usually interested in advancing their positions. At the same time, the company benefits from a more capable worker taking on more responsibility.
An increase in promotions after instituting changes to your employee review and development system is a positive trend. Deserved promotions are a no-lose situation for workers and company development.
Employee satisfaction scores
As employees improve their skills and move up in their company, their satisfaction also tends to rise. This is especially true if company objectives are aligned with an individual's desired career path.
High employee satisfaction rates also suggest an absence of pain points in the current process, such as unclear goals, imposter syndrome, and a lack of appreciation, All of which can be solved with a good performance development planning process.
Employee retention and attrition
When people are more satisfied at work, employee retention increases. This is another win-win situation as workers are happier, and the management has to worry less about attrition and hiring.
📉 Check out our guide on how to reduce employee attrition. We discuss 11 strategies to retain your best people.
Improvements in communication
Under a system where everyone is on the same page and working toward the same key goals, communication naturally improves. Quantifying this isn't always easy, but there are metrics you can look at.
Including communication-related questions in 360-degree reviews is one example.
Another is the frequency of 1:1 meetings between supervisors and subordinates. These suggest trends in communication and social learning, which are to the benefit of everyone involved.
➡️ Discover other important HR metrics your department should consider tracking ASAP.
➡️ Drive performance development with Zavvy
Interested in embracing performance development the easy way? Zavvy has all the tools you need!
Whether you need performance development software, a learning experience platform, or career pathing tools, you'll find industry-leading solutions here.
Our mission is to help businesses succeed through modernization and education.
By unlocking the full potential of existing talent in your workforce, you can unlock the full potential of your business. And we can help you do it!
📅 Schedule a free demo today to see how your company can evolve with Zavvy.
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