Employee Performance Objectives
Evaluating Employee Performance
Agreed performance objectives will form the basis for planning the activities.
After having
agreed on the
performance objectives the employee
should identify the activities and tasks required to
achieve these objectives and schedule them. This process is similar to the
processes of Activity Definition, Sequencing
and Schedule Development that the
project designer does in the
detailed planning phase of
project planning.
With the difference that when you articulate the activities for the
employee
performance you are deciding what the
individual
employee (yourself or your colleague) is expected to do and
produce; while when articulating the activities for
project detailed planning
you are deciding what the
At the level of the individual employee also activities have to be articulated on the basis of the expected tasks deliverables and outcomes.
The concrete deliverable of this process is the Staff Activity Forecast (see the template Monthly Staff Activity Forecast).
Employee Activities describe the work needed to produce the deliverables that contribute to the achievement of the employee performance objectives. They only include the work done by the employee and should not include the work done by the rest of the team and other stakeholders, who are expected to avail of employee activity outputs in order to i.e. contribute to the achievement of project/programme objectives.
While agreeing on the project objectives you have identifies the final outputs of the employee performance. Once the outputs are clear you should relate an activity (a task) to each one of them and should make a list of what task has to be completed before the next because it has produce as output the input for the following.
Then you should prioritize the tasks according to programme/project schedules and according to the requirements of your team colleagues.
After you prioritized prepare the monthly (or weekly, yearly, as the case may be) activity forecast.
See the template Monthly Staff Activity Forecast
Scheduling is an inexact process in that it tries to predict the future. While it is not possible to know with certainty how long a project will take, there are techniques that can increase your likelihood of being close. One key ingredient in the scheduling process is experience in the project area; another is experience with scheduling in general. In every sector of activity area there will be a body of knowledge that associates the accomplishment of known work efforts with a time duration.
Agreed performance objectives and the previously prepared Staff Activity Forecast ) the basis for reviewing the employee performance.
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