Appraising People and Performance by Simon Rotheram

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.