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Employee Performance Evaluations and Management

Your employees’ success is often a reflection of your own leadership skills, and is a vital indication of workforce stability. As a supervisor, your role is to set expectations, gather data, and provide continuous feedback to your employees to assist them in utilizing their skills, expertise and ideas to produce results. An effective employee performance management system is linked to agency mission and goals, has clear performance measures and truly recognizes and rewards outstanding performance. This training will help you acquire the techniques to recognize employee potential and transform those employees into the leaders of the future.

Key Methodologies Covered

This training will focus on This training will focus on developing employee performance evaluations that are in alignment with the Office of Personnel
Management’s Civil Service Regulations. It will look at best practices from all levels of government focusing on the Senior Executive Performance Regulations.

 

 

Training Curriculum
Day One Agenda:

9:00

Employee Performance Evaluation Mandates and Trends
• Overview of OPM regulations on conducting employee performance evaluations
• Update on legislation and administration initiatives on performancebased pay

10:00

Step 1: Gain Leadership and Stakeholder Involvement
• Solidify senior leadership and stakeholder support for an integrated human capital strategic management process
• Create a project team to manage the process and communicate the plan
• Ensure that the initiative is supported by the necessary talent and data from beginning to end

1:00

Step 2: Align Performance Plans to Agency Strategic Plan and Mission
• Build employee performance plans by using the GPRA Strategic Plan as a foundation
• Use the Logic Model approach to clarify mission, goals and
strategies
• Align HR functions to deliver desired performance

3:00

Step 3: Define Employee Performance Standards
• Develop and implement employee performance measures that
evaluate customer satisfaction, employee involvement and
innovation and program results
• Communicate measures to ensure they cover the evaluation’s full life cycle and are evaluated once a year

4:00

Adjourn

Day Two Agenda:

9:00

Step 4: Monitor and Reviewing Employee Performance
• Assess employees’ competencies and compare them with the
competency levels needed
• Periodically and consistently measure performance through
different means to provide a complete assessment

10:00

Step 5: Develop Employee Performance
• Develop individual employee performance plans that align training initiatives with goals set forth in your strategic plan
• Design and implement strategies which maximize employee potential and focus on the future

1:00

Step 6: Rate Employee Performance
• Make meaningful distinctions between high- and low-performing employees
• Define performance expectations that reflect job requirements and more accurately assess employee’s competencies and contributions

2:30

Step 7: Reward, Counsel and Correct
• Create an incentives awards program to improve efficiency,
effectiveness and motivate employees to continue high
performance
• Differentiate among factors that create achievement problems

3:30

Scenario and Planning Exercise
• Determine how to roll out employee performance plans in order to achieve organizational change

4:30

Adjourn

 

 

 

DATES

November 1 - 2, 2005 Arlington, Virginia
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DESCRIPTIONS

Course Level: Intermediate
Format: Group-Live
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None

CPE Credits: 12

Tuition: $1095
What You Will Learn

New SES Performance Regulations

Conduct Employee Performance Ratings

Organize and Manage Employee Rating Boards

Counseling Poor Performers and Taking Corrective Action

Create an Incentives Awards Program

Make Meaningful Distinctions Based on Relative Performance

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT

Cascade Agency Performance
Measures to the Individual
Employee Level

Develop an appraisal system that
aligns employee performance to
agency mission and goals

Recognize and Reward
Individual Performance

Create an incentives awards program
to improve efficiency, effectiveness
and motivate employees to continue
high performance

Distinguish between High
and Low Performing
Employees

Define performance expectations
that reflect job requirements and
more accurately assess employee’s
competencies and contributions

Improve Employee
Performance with a System
of Accountability

Develop a performance measurement
system to track the results of your
evaluation process

GET CERTIFIED

The Performance Institute offers the only comprehensive certification programs in government management.

This training program is part of the curriculum of the following certification programs:

Government Performance Management
Human Capital Management

The Performance Institute is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

Complaints regarding sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue
North, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org