Evolve Blog

Jul 2009

Financial Services Special Report: Is your brokerage built for success or failure?

“Good times shield us from the truth about the limitations of our sales organisation. However when the financial services marketplace gets tougher those limitations can threaten your brokerages very survival” so says David Malone, Executive Director of Evolve Consultants.

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Jul 2009

I know what you did last summer!

I know what you did last summer. In fact, I know what the majority of sales professionals have been doing every summer for the last five or six years. What am I talking about? The great corporate Ireland summer wind down. Quarter three is an odd time for doing business in Ireland. 

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Training Programmes - Management Suite

List of Programmes:

Performance Appraisal Skills

Overview
 
The performance reviews is an essential component of employee development. All too often however they are handled badly and are dreaded by the manager and the appraise. The exercise becomes a useless procedure and the only real result is a completed form. Appraisals can however underpin organizational performance and ensure all staff’s objectives are aligned correctly with the organization and remedy any areas that need improvement. This program shows how to make appraisals a two way process, which will motivate and empower employees. 
 
This programme is ideal for:
 
This skills-packed workshop is aimed at all levels of management, including team leaders. Anybody who has the responsibility of conducting the performance review as part of their job.
 
Programme deliverables
 
Recognize the importance of having a performance appraisal process for employees. 
Understand how to work with employees to set performance standards and goals. 
Develop skills in observing and giving feedback, listening and asking questions, for improved performance. 
Identify an effective interview process and have the opportunity to practice the process in a supportive atmosphere. 
Develop strategies for managing employee performance.
 
 
Content 
 
Performance appraisal principles
Why bother?
The need for regular feedback
Coaching - the process
The appraisal as a two-way process 
 
Planning Process
The Goal-Setting Process  
Communicating performance expectations 
Establishing effective performance standards 
 
Communications Skills Required
Understanding perceptual biases and why people see performance differently
Effective Listening techniques: 
Body language (observing and projecting)
Facilitating through Questions:

- Open questions

- Closed questions

- Probing / seeking information

- Paraphrasing / checking understanding

- Summarising
- Clarification

- Using the "silence" technique

 
Conducting the Appraisal Interview 
How to structure the meeting
Contrasting approaches to appraisal interviews  
Success factors: What the research shows 
Managing the interview process 
Guidelines for successful appraisals
Giving Feedback: 

- The Principle of "Consequence Management" and its application

- Why, when and how to give praise

- Why, when and how to give criticism constructively
Developing action plans
 
Simulation in Appraisal Interviewing 
Participant practice in conducting appraisal interviews  
Self-critique 
Observer feedback and critique
 
Additional Comments
·      This programme can be amended to suit an existing internal performance appraisal process
·      Programme content and duration can be tailored for company circumstances

·      Workbook & handouts support programme