AXI Consult · HR-02
Performance Management Transformation
- Who it's for
- Organizations seeking to overhaul performance culture.
- Duration
- Project-based, typically 8-16 weeks.
Engagement objectives
What we'll achieve.
- Diagnose the current performance-management approach for its fear/growth balance
- Redesign the system toward growth-centered conversations
- Train managers to use the redesigned system
Engagement process
How it unfolds.
Discovery & Diagnosis
Weeks 1-3Interviews or surveys on the current appraisal experience, and review of the existing system's structure and documentation.
Design & Pilot
Weeks 4-8Co-design of the redesigned performance-conversation structure and documentation, piloted with a small group of managers.
Manager Training & Rollout
Weeks 9-14Training managers on the redesigned approach (drawing on the HOC-LP performance & feedback module), with support through the first full cycle.
Handoff & Review
Weeks 15-16Review of pilot-cycle results, final adjustments, and handoff to HR for ongoing ownership.
Tools & frameworks used
- Growth-centered performance system rubric (adapted from HCHR-D)
- Manager training materials (adapted from the HOC-LP performance & feedback module)
Deliverables
- Redesigned performance system documentation
- Manager training materials
- Pilot-cycle review report
Consultant qualifications
- Holds HCHR-D certification or equivalent, plus experience training managers in performance conversations
- Ideally co-delivered with a HOC-LP certified facilitator for the training component
Success measures
This engagement is not graded. Success is defined by client adoption of the findings, not an external standard.
- Manager confidence self-assessment before and after training
- Qualitative feedback from the pilot cycle
- Client's decision to continue the redesigned system after the pilot
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Performance Management Transformation
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