Watching the Olympics and hearing so much about performance and coaching it got me wondering about what’s the difference in performance management at work?

I was putting together an invite to an event we are running at the end of the month, promoting our Challenging Conversations training nugget and was wondering how to show how relevant it is given current market conditions. It got me thinking of the 70 odd times we have run the session and how we start it with a couple of cheeky questions:

“So what’s the overall intention in having a conversation about someone’s performance?”

The unamimous answer from approximately 1000 line managers:

“To improve that individual’s performance for the benefit of the business”

Great answer which I’m sure you might agree with. Then we ask the really cheeky question: (more…)