Ironically many managers continue to rely on an outdated
cumbersome time wasting push model for staying abreast of their team
member's updates. "Send me your latest sales figures for the month and the status of your top ten accounts" or "Set aside every Monday morning for our weekly team's status update meeting".
Push is Passé
Are you and other managers in your organization placing your trust in a static push process to stay abreast of mission critical dynamic activities related to sales, production, billing and other metric driven scorecard objectives?
"If all you have is a hammer then the whole world begins to look like a nail." So if your team's communication tools are limited to face to face meetings, phone conversations, email and attachments and hard copies then you and your people are spending more time on your communication process than you need to and less time on making the numbers happen.
The overhead spent by employees and managers emailing, copying, and printing performance updates back and forth is both staggering and unnecessary. A dynamic web based goal management approach relieves employees and managers from the tedious and ever present need to push mission critical information back and forth to each other.
Push is Passé
Are you and other managers in your organization placing your trust in a static push process to stay abreast of mission critical dynamic activities related to sales, production, billing and other metric driven scorecard objectives?
"If all you have is a hammer then the whole world begins to look like a nail." So if your team's communication tools are limited to face to face meetings, phone conversations, email and attachments and hard copies then you and your people are spending more time on your communication process than you need to and less time on making the numbers happen.
The overhead spent by employees and managers emailing, copying, and printing performance updates back and forth is both staggering and unnecessary. A dynamic web based goal management approach relieves employees and managers from the tedious and ever present need to push mission critical information back and forth to each other.
A Perfect Storm
A manager's challenge to stay current with their employee's performance is exacerbated by a lethal perfect storm: Today's workforce is increasingly mobile and time constrained, competitive and economic forces are fueling the need for just in time operational data, and organizations are desperate for a better bottom up flow of mission critical information. "What are our competitors doing?"
Pull is the New Normal
Empowered employees using an intuitive goal management solution can post their achievements and updates to their assigned tasks, create new goals for themselves, and offer fresh ideas for improving performance.
Managers track their team-members progress in real time, generate summary scorecard reports, receive bottom up suggestions with next steps and updates; all of this without ever having to print, copy, or email attachments or attend status meetings.
Manager and employee are free from shuffling paper, version management, exchanging and tracking emails, and are less reliant on time consuming status meetings. Higher level managers have line of site of the numbers of their direct and indirect reports and the underlying activities and the forward thinking next steps.
Managers and employees can share strategies and next steps and create micro goals to help ensure major targets are met.
Summary
Goals are meant to be achieved. Goal management software will operationalize your cascaded corporate goals. It is the gift an organization gives itself to streamline the data gathering and tactical management process so less time is spent identifying performance gaps and more time focused on bridging them.
Related published article in Ezines "The 80/20 Principle of Meetings"
Push is Passé
Are you and other managers in your organization placing your trust in a static push process to stay abreast of mission critical dynamic activities related to sales, production, billing and other metric driven scorecard objectives?
"If all you have is a hammer then the whole world begins to look like a nail." So if your team's communication tools are limited to face to face meetings, phone conversations, email and attachments and hard copies then you and your people are spending more time on your communication process than you need to and less time on making the numbers happen.
The overhead spent by employees and managers emailing, copying, and printing performance updates back and forth is both staggering and unnecessary. A dynamic web based goal management approach relieves employees and managers from the tedious and ever present need to push mission critical information back and forth to each other.
Push is Passé
Are you and other managers in your organization placing your trust in a static push process to stay abreast of mission critical dynamic activities related to sales, production, billing and other metric driven scorecard objectives?
"If all you have is a hammer then the whole world begins to look like a nail." So if your team's communication tools are limited to face to face meetings, phone conversations, email and attachments and hard copies then you and your people are spending more time on your communication process than you need to and less time on making the numbers happen.
The overhead spent by employees and managers emailing, copying, and printing performance updates back and forth is both staggering and unnecessary. A dynamic web based goal management approach relieves employees and managers from the tedious and ever present need to push mission critical information back and forth to each other.
A Perfect Storm
A manager's challenge to stay current with their employee's performance is exacerbated by a lethal perfect storm: Today's workforce is increasingly mobile and time constrained, competitive and economic forces are fueling the need for just in time operational data, and organizations are desperate for a better bottom up flow of mission critical information. "What are our competitors doing?"
Pull is the New Normal
Empowered employees using an intuitive goal management solution can post their achievements and updates to their assigned tasks, create new goals for themselves, and offer fresh ideas for improving performance.
Managers track their team-members progress in real time, generate summary scorecard reports, receive bottom up suggestions with next steps and updates; all of this without ever having to print, copy, or email attachments or attend status meetings.
Manager and employee are free from shuffling paper, version management, exchanging and tracking emails, and are less reliant on time consuming status meetings. Higher level managers have line of site of the numbers of their direct and indirect reports and the underlying activities and the forward thinking next steps.
Managers and employees can share strategies and next steps and create micro goals to help ensure major targets are met.
Summary
Goals are meant to be achieved. Goal management software will operationalize your cascaded corporate goals. It is the gift an organization gives itself to streamline the data gathering and tactical management process so less time is spent identifying performance gaps and more time focused on bridging them.
Related published article in Ezines "The 80/20 Principle of Meetings"
IFP's Summit Goal Management system's annual subscription is
scalable starting at just 25 employees, and can be configured as a stand
alone system or integrated with IFP's TalentPeak™ performance and
learning management system.
IFP has been meeting the HR needs of organizations large and small since 2003. Our flagship TalentPeak™ performance management is scalable, robust, competitively priced and provides free benchmark customer support.
The core performance management system includes the Multi-Rater and Job Description Builder modules and can be further accessorized with Learning Management, Goal Management and our unique Context Targeted Compass 360.
Clients in need of performance management, applicant tracking, surveys, assessments skills testing and leadership development solutions can look to IFP for any of these offerings and benefit from using a single source vendor while participating in our multi-solution discount program. There are further discounts for Government, Education, and Non-Profits.
For more information email rhiller@insightsforperformance.com
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IFP has been meeting the HR needs of organizations large and small since 2003. Our flagship TalentPeak™ performance management is scalable, robust, competitively priced and provides free benchmark customer support.
The core performance management system includes the Multi-Rater and Job Description Builder modules and can be further accessorized with Learning Management, Goal Management and our unique Context Targeted Compass 360.
Clients in need of performance management, applicant tracking, surveys, assessments skills testing and leadership development solutions can look to IFP for any of these offerings and benefit from using a single source vendor while participating in our multi-solution discount program. There are further discounts for Government, Education, and Non-Profits.
For more information email rhiller@insightsforperformance.com
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