Appraising People and Performance

We are all aware that a positive culture helps create a happy and productive workforce, and this is embedded in all that we do at Beechwood. But we realised that some of our management team had received no formal training in appraising our people and their performance.

Management team receiving their certificates.

Performance reviews are a proven and effective way to motivate staff to achieve business objectives. Effective performance management ensures staff performance supports the achievement of organisational goals.

We spoke to the training team at Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce Training and they prepared and a delivered a bespoke training course for us.

Some of the objectives our team required training and guidance in included, understanding the role of managing and monitoring performance, plus the following:

• • Plan and prepare effective assessments

• • Determine key performance indicators

• • Identify performance and the approaches to effective management

• • Select appropriate methods to improve performance

• • Lead a performance review with confidence and structure

The day not only left everyone feeling positive about a subject that can be a little daunting for some in the workplace, but it was great as a team building day with the management team. (We never knew that Martin was a record breaking Jaffa Cake eater)!

This course has now helped our management team to create an environment where we have:

• • Clearly focused goals

• • Objectively appraise performance

• • Motivated and enthusiastic staff

• • Targeted development of resources

We can definitely recommend this type of training to increase morale for your team and the Chamber provided excellent facilities and fantastic lunch!