Evaluate The Performance Management Cycle

The performance management cycle is another tool used to measure and monitor performance through professional supervision. As mentioned above it is important to plan in supervisions, it means setting performance expectations, this can be in one-one supervisions or group supervisions for individuals to focus their efforts towards achieving organisational objectives. It is important that staff are involved in the planning process as they will gather a better understanding of the overall goals of the organisation and answer their questions in relation to why, what and how the goals will be achieved. The planning element also includes the measures that will be used to monitor performance and whether expectations are being met.
When monitoring performance the supervisors aim is to check how staff are doing in relation to meeting targets and identify any areas of improvement so that solving problems can be done in the early stages, to prevent the process from being time consuming; it is essential to provide feedback to staff consistently to support them to make progress when reaching their goals.
The developing component of the performance cycle is about improving practice and performance; this may be through additional training and introducing new skills to support the staff to gain a higher level of
This doesn’t have to come at a cost as the organisation should not be forced to pay for staff to do their job but just a sincere ‘Thank you’ and appreciation shown for a specific task well done can boost the morale of staff. Additionally an acknowledgement such as employee of the month is a great method of highlighting staff member’s efforts to achieve personal and professional goals – which has just been introduced in own area of