Getting started quickly and easily with Teampeak

What do you want to achieve? In other words, how do you envisage performance management working within your organization? Self-starting employees driven by passion? Great! And does management see it that way, too? If not, you’ve still got some work to do! Because people look to their leaders for direction.

Keep your intended destination in mind when planning your route. That can vary from one organization to another. Sometimes it can be useful to present the implementation as a ‘great innovation’. Finding a concrete reason for the implementation can also be a good idea. And that can make it easier to take the first step on your journey. What about arranging a meeting to encourage awareness of the need for personal (or other) development? Or setting up a user-friendly digital system. In our experience, launching a large-scale plan can prove disappointing, while a small-scale plan often turns out to have more positive effects than expected.

Have you decided on the first stage of your route? Sending out scouts to pave the way can be a good idea. Maybe a department. Or a pilot group. What do they find along the way? Or come up against? And what would they advise you to do differently? Along the way, you’re bound to come across things you hadn’t foreseen. Introducing a new method means acting differently. Relationships can also change. And change can create tension. Don’t worry! It doesn’t matter if things don’t work out right the first time around. What matters is finding out, together, what and why things went wrong. So, get your pilot group involved. Share your vision and how you envisage arriving there. And, above all, be open and honest about surprises they may face along the way! You can be sure they’ll then be willing to come up with constructive criticism, along with ideas and solutions.