Part 5: Actions
If you want to see improvement from month to month, a collaborative and clearly defined action plan is absolutely necessary. Eliminate performance gaps and reach your team goals with this action plan guide.
Creating a detailed action plan and putting it into practice is the step that will take your team from good to great. Using the reasons identified during your analysis, the team must develop detailed action plans to address the causes of the identified gaps between the goals/expectations and the feedback results.
The action plan should be addressed during your monthly performance improvement meeting. In this video, Bill outlines the methodology to develop a precise and functional action plan. The six stages he focuses on are as follows:
- Discuss possible actions
- Prioritise and select key actions with the highest impact
- Determine the level of action – is it one activity or a series of smaller tasks?
- Allocate responsibility, and record alongside actions
- Agree on time-frame.
With your detailed action plan now in place, it is time to set new goal levels with your team for the next month. Refer back to the goal-setting document for details on how to do this.