One Page Talent Management: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value

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Performance Management

PERHAPS NO TALENT MANAGEMENT process is more important or more reviled than performance management. The presumably simple steps of setting goals, monitoring performance, and evaluating an employee’s accomplishments inspire legendary amounts of managerial eye rolling and foot dragging. Yet across the spectrum of HR practices, nothing else is so directly linked to individual and corporate results, making performance management a perfect candidate for OPTM.

The business reasons for performance management are quite simple: align the employee’s efforts with business needs and fairly evaluate the employee’s performance. Unfortunately, these two simple objectives have become needlessly complex under pressure from managers wanting ...