Developing Performance and Nurturing Potential

Course Overview

Sustainable competitive advantage for any organisation is created by maximising the potential of managerial and leadership talent.

Management development specialists and L&D practitioners need to have an understanding of the contribution that management development can make to the achievement of organisational performance, business plans and long term goals. They also need to be able to develop management development strategies that will fulfil individual needs and release their potential into the organisation.

This course looks at the changing core competencies for managers and leaders in todays war for talent. Focusing on how to identify those with talent and potential at recruitment, this course provides practical examples of how to release talent and potential into the organisation plus how to manage performance and nurture individuals potential.

Audience

L&D specialists and HR practitioners involved in talent management strategies and activities for their own organisation. Senior managers with managers reporting to them who they wish to develop in terms of both performance and potential.Introductory level course geared towards those who need an introduction to the subject and assumes limited or no previous experience.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• differentiate between performance and potential
• identify the stakeholders in the performance management process
• compare and contrast a range of management competency frameworks
• use these competency frameworks to design management development strategies for developing performance
• assess high potential and develop talent management activities to grow and retain talent within your organisation.

Course Outline

Whats the difference between performance and potential?

• the performance management process
• tools and techniques for performance management
• techniques for assessing potential in others.

Working with stakeholders in the performance management process

• identifying stakeholders and their impact
• gaining commitment from stakeholders
• working in partnership with stakeholders through the performance management process.

Management Competency Frameworks

• which approach is best for your organisation? behavioural standards
• using competency frameworks in recruitment development reward performance Appraisal integrating competency frameworks into management development activities.

Who has high potential in your organisation

• assessing talent within individuals
• management development activities to nurture and develop talent and potential in individuals
• growing high potential employees through coaching strategies and other tools and techniques
• assessment and development centres reliability, validity, consistency of assessment and development tools scoring and feedback mechanisms the role of senior management in assessment and development centres.

Developing Performance and Nurturing Potential / CM025267