The Nuts and Bolts of Performance Management: What Works and What's New

Performance management (PM) has emerged as a topical issue. Organizational leaders question whether PM and pay should be linked Some leading organizations have decided to reinvent PM to more frequent discussions instead of annual reviews where workers are treated to criticisms that have been saved up for a year. This session reviews traditional thinking about PM and new thinking about ways to address PM in more innovative ways

• Define performance management (PM)
• Describe how to link PM to organizational strategy

• Review common approaches to PM
• Describe trends in PM

• Develop performance scorecards at corporate, business unit, and employee levels
• Review best practice models, methodologies and toolboxes for performance management
• Learn how to best implement a performance management program and manage the change
• Link and align strategy to performance
• Align employee performance to organization vision

• Human resource
• Practitioners
• Leaders
• Managers
• Directors
• Executive level HR professionals
• Management consulting professionals
• Performance management professionals 
• Professionals involved in OD and strategy

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. He has worked in HR for more than 40 years and has also worked as a consultant for more than 50 multinational corporations--including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2012 he earned ASTD’s prestigious Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, and in 2013 ASTD honored him by naming him as a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Fellow. (ASTD is now called ATD.) In 2014 he was given the Asia-Pacific International Personality Brandlaureate Award.

He has authored, coauthored, edited or coedited 115 books since 1987. His recent books since 2017 include Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships: Process Consultation Reimagined (Routledge, 2021), The Essential Human Resource Guide for Small Business and Start Ups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals, 2nd ed. (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2018);  Innovation Leadership (Routledge, 2018), Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation (CRC Press, 2017), Marketing Organization Development Consulting: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants (CRC Press, 2017), Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development: Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD practitioner (CRC Press, 2017). He also authored such books as The Leader’s Daily Role in Talent Management (2015), Effective Succession Planning, 5th ed. (2015), and Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader (2013).