Is Employee Discipline
Performance Management?
PUNISHMENT OR IMPROVEMENT?
You've had numerous conversations with your employee about the need to improve performance.  

You've told the employee if they don't change their behavior you'll have to take disciplinary action. This is serious. And today, it happened again. Why doesn't the employee learn?
 
Once the disciplinary process begins, are you still doing performance management? Does the performance management process include disciplinary steps? Well, the answer is yes and no.
 
In theory, these are two separate and distinct processes with different purposes. The performance management process is intended to provide frequent feedback to employees to ensure their performance is on target and recognized. The performance management process may also be summarized in a regularly scheduled discussion or evaluation. Employee discipline however, is a series of consequences intended to change an employee's behavior when it is not meeting expectations. Granted, discipline may result from performance conversations that aren't effective. However, discipline should never be delivered at performance evaluation time.

 

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It's time to start thinking about your year-end performance evaluation process. Are your managers and supervisors ready?
 

Make sure your managers are prepared and confident with our newest training resource.  With the Painless Performance Evaluations recorded webinar series, you can incorporate the Painless Performance Evaluations principles throughout your organization. 
 
This six-session series includes brief, but powerful recordings, filled with practical approaches you can use immediately, along with helpful discussion guides to help foster conversations among your team. 
 
The webinar series provides the tools you need to:
  • Set clear and motivating performance expectations
  • Maintain performance documentation
  • Rate performance fairly
  • Write a performance evaluation 
  • Lead a painless performance evaluation meeting
Accessing the webinar series is easy, and your purchase gives you one year of access to all of these powerful resources.
 
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Make sure you and your team are ready to make this year's performance evaluations painless!

 

Spooky Managers Lurking in Your Organization
FROM OUR PARTNERS AT emPerform


Your organization relies heavily on skilled and effective management to build and maintain a top-performing workforce. With so much riding on your organization's managers, we think it's time to take a minute to consider the different types of managers that might be lurking in your hallways. What improvements can be considered for each to ensure that your workforce is feeling "TREATED" rather than "TRICKED?"

Download the PDF of this cute article:
What Kinds of Spooky Managers are Lurking in Your Organization? from our partners at emPerform.  
 


Final Footnotes
NEWS & EVENTS FROM MARNIE

October brings cooler temperatures and anticipation of the season. Changing leaves, holiday festivities, and year-end performance evaluations.  This time of year we all need a little help, whether it's preparing for the season or wrapping up the year.  When it comes to performance evaluations, we have the tools you need. Please check out our new training resources and let me know what you think!   

As always, if there is anything I can do to support your performance management
efforts, just give me a call at 480-705-9394 or shoot me an email
 
Marnie E. Green, CSP, IPMA-CP
Principal Consultant

 

 

October 2015
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