Picture this: You are sitting around the table at the end of your management meeting and your CEO reminds you all that the annual performance reviews are due next month.  The range of reactions from the managers range from eye rolling, huffing and puffing, outward groans, through to disbelief that another year has passed by so quickly.  This is then followed by furtive glances into work diaries wondering how they are supposed to fit in one hour one-to-one conversations with all their direct reports, not to mention the preparation time required and dreading that one conversation with their ‘problem employee’.  The meeting has now ended on a sour note and everyone shuffles out of the room - and that’s just the managers! 

Outside the meeting, employees know that it is just around the corner.  Some of them have managed to book their leave during this time and silently thank their forward planning skills in mastering such a fantastic move.  Needless to say they walk around the office for the rest of the week with a smug smile knowing that they have dodged yet another bullet in the ‘accountability’ conversation.  Some employees can’t actually remember who their direct manager is and rush off to find out.   Others are thinking about all the projects that they have completed and start cataloguing all their successes in the hope that it outweighs any of the missed deadlines and not so successful projects; after all,  the best form of defence is attack …right??  Does any of this sound familiar?   

This webinar will not make you love ‘that’ time of the year, but it will arm you with some tools that will make the process easier to navigate.  It will cover some of the most basic mistakes that are made and also test some of your assumptions about what performance management is actually all about.  Here’s a hint: it’s not about the type of IT system that you use!

In this webinar you will:

  • Explore the barriers of poor performance
  • Build strategies to overcome these barriers
  • Develop some guiding principles in managing the performance conversation
  • Compare performance ranking scales and models

About the presenter – Andrea Collett

Andrea has over 20 years experience in human resource management gained from the not for profit, public and private sectors. She holds an MBA from the University of Adelaide, is a SA Governor’s Leadership Foundation graduate (2010) and was a State Councillor of the Australian Human Resource Institute (SA) from 2009 – 2014.  In her current role as the Senior HR Consultant at CBB, she is partnering with nfp clients in the development of HR strategies and solutions which reflect the uniqueness of their organisation and the way they interact with their communities.  The constant need to inspire and engage employees to tap into their discretionary effort is the centre of Andrea’s focus in her strategies.  With two recent national Australian Institute of Training & Development (AITD) awards from previous assignments, Andrea is able to not only meet immediate needs but also increase her clients’ internal HR capacity and sustainability.  For further information visit cbb.com.au