Plateau Systems Hosts Performance Management Best Practices Webinar
Participating HR Professionals Gain Insights to Successfully Develop and Deploy Performance Management Processes and Technology
Arlington, Va. • January 12, 2006 - Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, hosted an online seminar on performance management yesterday entitled "Getting Started with Performance Management." The webinar provided more than 170 participants with information on how to build a performance management roadmap and best practices to implement processes and technology to enable increased workforce performance.
Jason Averbook, CEO of Knowledge Infusion, and James Harvey, a principal consultant at Knowledge Infusion, emphasized key considerations for designing a process to align employee performance with business objectives, driving consistency in performance plans and integrating learning and performance development.
Highlights from the presentation included:
- An approach to building a roadmap to higher performance to achieve long-term business outcomes with step-by-step changes that demonstrate early value.
- Key project planning considerations, including the importance of strong process and content design and the role of technology and change management.
- Best practices for organizational alignment, such as segmentation by worker types, considerations for cascading goals throughout the organization and approaches to creating actionable goals.
- The value of integrated processes, including the benefit of tightly integrating learning and performance management. This includes analysis of common employee profile data and the ability to directly link and track performance goals and development with learning.
- Key considerations for technology selection, including ease of configurability, the ability to work within the organizational alignment model and the integration of processes, from performance to development.
"Increasing workforce productivity and performance remains top of mind for business leaders," said Paul Sparta, chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. "Performance management solutions can do much more that just automate manual processes, including enable increased organizational alignment and improve management of organizational talent. HR plays a critical role in developing processes and deploying technology that increases workforce performance."
To reference this week's webinar and previous online events hosted by Plateau, visit www.plateau.com.
About Plateau: Plateau is a leading provider of adaptable Web-based software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent to increase workforce productivity and business operations performance. Plateau's software is being used by some of the world's largest, most successful enterprises, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, Internal Revenue Service, and Wendy's International. Industry analysts, including Forrester Research and Bersin & Associates, have rated Plateau a leader in functionality, technology, and customer satisfaction. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Va. For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.
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