Performance Management

Perspective Performance Management

How does Perspective help leaders manage this process efficiently?

  • Integrated Performance Management Targets - Targets can either be particular to an individual or aligned with higher priorities. These are agreed at the beginning of the Performance Management cycle and can be tracked throughout the year.
  • Targets are at the heart of the Performance - Flexible Observation Schedule and Evidence. Perspective allows users to schedule a series of formal observations and afterwards store their notes from the observation within the system. This means that notes (whether they’re text, data, audio or video) can be stored centrally and can be accessed by the reviewer or reviewee at any point.
  • Target Focused CPD - Perspective helps to keep CPD requests relevant and focused on the job in hand; namely the Performance Management target. Perspective allows you to attach the CPD activity to the Target, meaning that everyone is clear as to why colleagues are undergoing CPD and what the outcome should be.
  • Personal Evidence Storage - As the year progresses and colleagues move toward their CPD targets, they may find it useful to record evidence of their progress. Perspective allows reviewees to log evidence online throughout the year, making it easier to make their case for having completed their assigned targets.
  • Secure Recording of Reviews - At the end of the review cycle, the reviewee and reviewer view the evidence from the targets, observations and CPD are used as the basis for the review conversation. The findings of which are then written up and (after being confirmed by the reviewee) stored securely as a printable document.

We have used the Performance Management module to record all of our reviews this year. Senior and middle leadership staff who were already familiar with Perspective have inputted their reviews very quickly and the feedback from staff has been that the module was intuitive. Those staff who had not used Perspective before have used a word processor template as a scaffold for their review statements, and these have then been added by support staff into Perspective prior to the subsequent sign off. We have also found the module perfectly suitable for support staff reviews and have completed some of these using Perspective. All of this means I look forward to having easy access to statements and targets during the year ahead. It will also be a joy not to be chasing paper statements or word processed files next summer! It’s amazing how easily things go missing and the security of Perspective is going to save a lot of stress next review time.

David Black, Head Teacher, Alsager High School

Reviewers have their own Performance Management dashboard which allows them to quickly and easily monitor the progress of the their reviewees throughout the year, meaning the process is more likely to become an ongoing one rather than an annual event. Reviewers and CPD coordinators also have access to reports detailing the CPD needs of staff, so this can be more easily monitored and organised.

All of the Performance Reviews are available as printable and signing ready sheets for storage in paper form once reviews are finalised, as well as being stored electronically in Perspective for safe keeping.

There is no need to change the observation process currently in place in school in order to adopt the Perspective Performance Management process. All observation documents can be attached securely as evidence in the format you currently use, yet another time saver.

Click on any of the modules below to see more information about how Perspective handles that process and supports leaders and managers:

Is efficient Performance Management one of your priorities?

If it is, then talk to us. We think that Perspective has a role to play in any establishment achieving or maintaining its outstanding status, as well as supporting its internal processes, whether it be performance management or any other aspect of improvement. Therefore we would like to talk to you about how we could tailor Perspective to your specific needs.

Our team of educationalists want to discuss your particular requirements, explain more about our software, share our experience of working with senior leaders up and down the country, and then demonstrate how we work in partnership with you to create an implementation plan that drives out the goals you want to achieve.

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