Course Description

The Performance Management program provides information on writing workplans, outlines the phases of the work cycle, and describes the skills and strategies to influence employees to manage their own work. Participants will learn to write expectations, track performance, coach employees, and to conduct fair performance appraisal sessions. This is a two-day training session covering the state policy requirements as well as DHHS Performance Management Policy.

Once this course is completed participants will have access to the Online Workplan Guide.

Participants attending this course will learn to:

• Write a defensible workplan.
• Meet with employees and successfully communicate performance expectations and dimensions.
• Identify the legally defensible strategies within the N.C. system.
• Identify ways of tracking employee performance.
• Coach and reinforce employees who may not be meeting expectations.
• Provide feedback through a performance evaluation.
• Identify key biases supervisors may encounter in doing performance appraisals or interim reviews.

Instructor:
Barb Kunz (barb.kunz@ncmail.net) and/or Mike Zeinstra (mike.zeinstra@ncmail.net)

Dates/Time Offered:
NOTE: This is a two-day class, 8:30am-4:30pm - each day

Section 1-05: May 11 and 12, 2005
Section 2-05: July 26 and 27, 2005
Section 3-05: September 27 and 28, 2005
Section 4-05: November 29 and 30, 2005
Section 1-06: January 23 and 24, 2006
Section 2-06: March 21 and 22, 2006
Section 3-06: May 23 and 24, 2006
Section 4-06: July 25 and 26, 2006
Section 5-06: October 19 and 20, 2006 (new date) [ Register Online ] Location: Division of Public Health, Hickory Conference Room, Building One, 5605 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC

Section 6-06: November 28 and 29, 2006 [ Register Online ]

Location:
Adams Building, Room 264, Dorothea Dix Campus, Raleigh

Cost: $25

Check with your division or institution Training Coordinator to register.