5 Steps for Creating an Effective Performance Improvement Plan

Learning activities tend to be disconnected from operational needs. Employees are stuck going through the same generic training modules, which are years old and time-consuming. Yet, better performance is the ideal outcome of learning. Why do we bother training employees if they can’t bring it into a real application?

What is Performance Based Training: The What It’s really easy for companies to get into a traditional onboarding and training routine and never update it. You’ve laid the foundation, so why fix something if it works? But what if it’s not working? When you really take a step back and look at your employee's overall performance and goals...are they hitting those goals? Have they applied anything they’ve learned from training or even their onboarding? Is their performance lacking and hurting the end goal? Often times it’s difficult to measure their success if you don’t set up your training, development and application foundation correctly.

It’s Monday morning and Jane, a marketing associate, begins her workday by pouring a cup of coffee and getting cozy in her home office. Jane is a remote worker. With the flexibility of hours and location, Jane can work from anywhere at any time as long as she keeps her manager in the loop.