Leadership Skill: Performance Management

Performance management includes 3 stages: goal setting and motivation; encouragement; and rewards and consequences.

When correctly applied, performance management spurs people on to even greater accomplishments in their next task or project, simultaneously developping their skills and increasing their desire.

So remember the following leadership skill performance management points:

Constantly communicate performance expectations: "before", "during" and "after."
Set ambitious but realistic goals.
Encourage goal attainment with the promise of meaningful rewards extrinsic and intrinsic.
Be forgiving of honest mistakes made and risks taken in pursuit of performance goals.
Celebrate your team's efforts and accomplishments, both as you go and when you finish.
Give positive and engative consequences in a fair and timely manner, based on performance, not partiality.
Make team members feel like owners and partners.
Help employees make the connection between their actions and bottom line organizational success.

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