Performance Management to Promote Growth and Belonging

Make performance reviews more effective and inclusive with training that helps managers support growth, build belonging, and shape career trajectories.

Formats offered

In-person or virtual workshop
In-person or virtual keynote
Self-paced in Surface Learning

Performance management, when done well, can be an opportunity to boost performance and foster belonging and growth. If you play a role in performance management, you have a direct impact on the trajectories of people’s careers. This is both exciting, and a big responsibility. In this training, we’ll walk you through some steps you can take to make performance management more effective and inclusive.

Training Includes:

Research
Case Studies
Self Reflection
Activities
Action Planning

Learning Objectives

How bias can impact performance evaluations.
The importance of fostering belonging and growth.
Mitigate bias by reviewing relevant criteria before making an evaluation of someone, gathering data, and reviewing feedback for common patterns of bias.
Give more inclusive feedback that inspires people to grow and bolsters a sense of belonging.
Have effective discussions with peers when reviewing feedback.

High-Level Outline

Introduction

Share the importance of effective performance management for driving high-performance, fostering belonging, and advancing growth.

Objectivity

Company success depends on the right people being rewarded and advancing. Objectivity also promotes a more inclusive organization where biases are mitigated. | Activity: Practice responding to potential bias.

Growth

Effective performance management both helps people understand where they are at now and sets them up to grow and advance. | Reflect: Consider how often feedback is given and how effective it is.

Belonging

While ineffective performance management can undermine belonging, when done well, performance management can be an opportunity to help people see that they are valued and respected.

Action planning: Share strategies for building belonging.

Learn more about team training