DDI’s Performance Management System-Maximizing Performance

Linking Individual Performance to Organizational Priorities and Values Organizations want associates with commitment, clarity, and focus who “maximize” their contributions to the bottom line. Associates need skills and tools to take charge of their jobs, their development, and their future. A proven performance management system, like DDI’s Maximizing Performance, can deliver both.

Today’s successful organizations need a performance management system that drives focus and clarity by linking individual performance to strategic priorities and organizational values. An effective system also places the responsibility for performance management in the hands of the associates, stands upon a solid competency base, and provides quick and easy skill-based learning. The Benefits Maximizing Performance helps create a high-performance workplace by showing everyone, from senior executives to the front line, the importance of aligning their performance with the organization’s vision, values, and strategic priorities—and it provides the framework for doing so. This proven system gives all employees the skills they need to develop appropriate goals, identify success-related competencies, create development plans, measure progress, assess performance, and plan for the future. When all of these areas are aligned with your organization’s strategic priorities, Maximizing Performance is a powerful tool that delivers bottom-line impact.

In addition to driving real business results, Maximizing Performance offers the following benefits:

• Is based on proven, legally credible performance management methodology.
• Offers a choice of either traditional classroom delivery or flexible, just-in-time learning through self-study.
• Allows you to use it as published or to easily customize it to fit your organization’s needs, language, and business strategies.
• Enables your organization to use competencies to integrate performance management with other HR systems (i.e., selection and assessment, training and development, career and succession planning, etc.).
• Allows your organization to use it as an organization-wide system intervention.
• Helps leaders create an ongoing communication and evaluation strategy for effective performance.

In short, Maximizing Performance® is a best-practice-based performance management system for developing, measuring, and aligning individual goals with strategic priorities to help you:

• Clarify and manage individual accountability.
• Increase consistency and objectivity in performance evaluation. 
• Identify leadership potential through performance data.

Throughout every organizational level, Maximizing Performance creates a common language for achieving goals. It integrates your vision, values, and critical success factors into a smooth, efficient system—a system that enables you to see your business strategies carried out as each person meets individual objectives.