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Ten Tips for Creating a Terrific Performance Management System – Tip #6

by Dick Grote Add a comment

Tip #6 — Assure on-going communication.

Circulate drafts and invite users to make recommendations. Keep the development process visible through announcements and house organ bulletins. Use surveys, float trial balloons, request suggestions.

Never lose sight of the cardinal principle — “People support what they help create.”

About the Author

Dick Grote has been a management consultant for almost thirty years, specializing exclusively in the field of employee performance appraisal and management. As a consultant, he has created employee performance management systems for several hundred of the world’s best known and most respected companies, including Texas Instruments, JCPenney, Miller Brewing Company, American Airlines, Macy’s, Raytheon, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and Herman Miller. His company, Grote Consulting, specializes in employee performance appraisal, employee performance improvement and talent management.