Writing Effective Performance Standards: An Overview

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for supervisors, managers, and HR practitioners involved in employee performance management and evaluation.

Course Overview

Stop writing vague or recycled performance standards. In this focused, fast-paced seminar, you’ll learn how to craft clear, measurable, and job-specific performance elements that align with agency goals—and stand up to scrutiny.

Course Topics

• Practical strategies to ensure your performance plans are compliant, actionable, and support accountability at every level
   
• Craft clear, precise measurable, and job-specific performance elements
   
• Discover how to avoid common pitfalls
   
• Incorporate SMART criteria effectively
   
• Develop standards that truly reflect the duties and impact of the position
   
• Create performance standards that will facilitate an accountable workforce
   
• Write performance standards that mean something and will move the mission forward