Performance Management Workshops

Effective performance management is easy to describe, but harder to practice.  It is more difficult, still, for directors and managers who are responsible for 1st line supervisors to ensure that performance management is practiced effectively and consistently over time and across subordinate units.  Yet, we know that effective and consistent performance management is key to our collective success. 

Human Resources, in collaboration with the Staff Senate and with extensive feedback from vice presidents and deans, has developed a new performance evaluation tool for staff employees that is designed to foster greater clarity and consistency in staff performance evaluations, prompted better communications between employees and supervisors, and (hopefully) foster greater confidence on the part of staff employees in the evaluation program. 

With the concurrence of the Provost, all supervisors of staff employees are invited to participate in a 90-minute workshop before conducting performance evaluations this Spring.  The workshop will focus on the fundamentals of effective performance management and introduce supervisors to the new performance evaluation tool, with the expectation that supervisors will begin to use the new performance evaluation form in Spring 2012 to develop work plans for the coming year.  [Note:  The evaluation of 2011 performance will be conducted using current performance evaluation forms, but supervisors will be expected to use the new performance evaluation form to develop work plans for 2012.] 

Effective performance management is a shared process that requires the investment of both supervisors and employees to ensure that individual effort is aligned with department goals and objectives.  Please help us move toward a more contemporary, professional, and interactive performance evaluation process for staff employees by participating in one of these workshops.

Supervisors and Managers

Employees responsible for supervising staff employees will learn about the new performance management process, evaluation form, and the fundamentals of effective performance management. 

Staff Employees

Staff employees will learn about the new performance management process and the employee self-evaluation form. The new evaluation form includes a separate employee self-evaluation component and instructions which state employees should be provided an opportunity to complete the self-evaluation in advance.

NOTE:

(1) The Supervisor and Manager Workshop utilizes a Management Guide.  Print this Management Guide (PDF) prior to registration.

(2) All 3rd shift workshops are held on Belknap campus in the HR Training Room.  

Register for:

 Supervisor and Manager Workshop   

Staff Self Evaluation Workshop