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Week 2 Lesson 1:
Goal Setting and
Performance Appraisal
Structure

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Learning Outcomes

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• Discuss the rationale for Goal Setting
• Explain the purpose of the appraisal process
• Discuss your roles and responsibilities as appraiser or
appraisee
• Create and implement a robust performance management
process for your BETA team

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Rationale for Goal
Setting
“The people who get things done, who lead,
who grow and who make a impact…Those
people have goals.”
Seth Godin
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Activity: In your BETA Team:
Debate One team will take the PROPOSITION and the

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other team will be the OPPOSITION
Spend 20 minutes to prepare for the debate. You
will need to nominate 3 speakers from each team.
The first two speakers from each team will be
given 3 minutes to make their speech and the
Time concluding speakers from each team will be given
5 minutes to provide concluding remarks.
Allocated: 50
minutes
Spend the next 30 minutes to debate.
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Topic:

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Proposition: Opposition

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Performance
Appraisal Process
“To be effective and yield results for your
business, performance management must be a
year-round process with no end.”
Teala Wilson
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Taken from Peg McNabb
– For a Better World, Posted on Pinterest
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Let’s Discuss

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Fairness: Which one
should we focus on?
Equality or Equity?

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The Performance Appraisal Structure

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What should go into What goals should we set
the next round of Goal for members in the team?
Setting? Goal Setting … so that it is Fair?

Recognition Performance
and Plans for Monitoring
Improvements and Feedback

How should we How can we monitor

conduct our
Performance performance and provide
performance appraisal? Appraisal feedback to members?
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Roles and
Responsibilities of
appraiser and
appraisee
“To be effective and yield results for your
business, performance management must be a
year-round process with no end.”
Teala Wilson
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What are the roles

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and responsibilities of
an appraiser?
You can put in multiple entries
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What are the roles

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and responsibilities of
an appraisee?
You can put in multiple entries
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Act. Learn. Build
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Activity: In your BETA Team:
Creating a Split members into 4 sub-groups/ pairs. Each sub-group

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Performance or pair will research and discuss and 1 specific area of
the performance appraisal structure.
Appraisal
Spend 15 minutes research and discuss in your sub-
Structure groups/ pairs and come up with proposals/
recommendations.
Spend 15 minutes as a team to put together a proposal
Time for a performance appraisal structure.
Allocated: 45
minutes Spend the next 15 minutes to walk through proposals as
a class.
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Discuss the rationale
for Goal Setting
Goal setting is an important
practice often regarded as
the first step in a
performance appraisal
structure. It gives members
directions on where to focus
and help them achieve
organisational outcomes.
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Explain the Create and
purpose of the implement a
appraisal process Discuss your roles robust
The appraisal process and performance
consists of 4 stages with a
responsibilities as management
primary purpose of
continuous development appraiser and process
and improvement – for appraisee It’s time to get the
members and the team. It team together to think
There are many
is not simply a process to through the 4
responsibilities
reward or punish. questions relating to
undertaken by both
the Performance
parties. The focus should
Appraisal Structure.
be on development.
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Assessment criteria for CA1 [Revisit and Reflect. Look through
[Spend some time to go through what you and your team have
CA1 requirements. Discuss with covered for the week. What is one

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your team on how you can key learning for you?]
contribute towards the team’s
success!]
Think about getting your first
SALE!
Revisit and Refine your BETA
[If you have yet started on your
structure
BETA operations, this is the week
[Refer to the organisational structure
to start working on something.
and job descriptions your team has
Discuss with your team using the
created in Week 1. How would your
ET&A template on 1 idea your
team set goals and complete the
team will take for the week.]
appraisal structure? ]

Next Steps forward

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Thank You.