Performance Management at Work

Description
Performance management here refers to the organizing of efforts for the sake of delivering daily excellence.
“… in order to perform at our best we need to be our best. Barriers between us and our best performance are explored, together with other elements influencing our effectiveness.” Brian Groves, Coaching, performing and thinking at work.
Performance management at work takes its starting point from these words, together with the words of Amy C. Edmondson in her 2019 book The Fearless Organization. Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth: “People must bring their brains to work and collaborate with each other to solve problems and accomplish work that’s perpetually changing.”
And, as Julia Hobsbawm states in her 2023 paperback version of The Nowhere Office. Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future: “It is a new era in professional work which blows away the cobwebs of a stale working model of management and presenteeism and replaces it with a fairer and more functional system that works not only from the top down but also across an organisation. … The onus should be less on the employee having their performance evaluated and more about the organisation being asked: how are we performing for you?”
The course covers various topics associated with the modern work environment to explore how current and future workers can manage resources to perform at their best, anywhere, throughout their careers.

Course objectives can be synthesized as follows:
• Explore the work environment of today and tomorrow;
• Review aspects of personal performance management;
• Build an inclusive, collaborative working mindset.

COURSE CONTENTS
• Work-environment wellbeing
• Aspects of work: coaching, performing and thinking
• Overcoming work challenges
• Learning from other students: an example of successful performance in a working environment