Performance and
Professional Growth Systems
Non-Instructional Staff For use by
Supervisors, Managers, Directors, Principals, and Superintendents Who Supervise Non-Instructional Employees
(both salaried and hourly)
2 Training Objectives:
Present an overview of the Performance Management model. Explain the reasons for new non-instructional performance
evaluation systems. Describe the three systems and which employees fall under
which. Discuss the key elements
Common to all three systems. Included in leadership and non-bargaining support systems
only. Included in leadership and non-bargaining support systems,
and optional for bargaining support. Provide an online demonstration of support resources and
forms. Questions & Answers.
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Rewards & Recognition
Organizational Effectiveness Assessment
Individual Performance Evaluation
Staffing Techniques
Individual Professio
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Succession Planning
Compensation
Management
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT MODEL
4 Why change systems?
To better align evaluation systems with BPS’ operational values to support employee movement toward achieving the district’s mission and vision.
To ensure greater consistency of evaluation systems measuring the performance of support staff with systems in place to measure instructional performance.
To provide enhanced tools to facilitate the professional growth of support employees.
5 What are the new systems?
Non-Instructional Leadership Performance & Professional Growth System
Non-Bargaining Support Staff Performance & Professional Growth System
Bargaining Support Staff Performance & Professional Growth System
6 Who is evaluated by which system?Non-Instructional
LeadershipNon-Bargaining Support Staff
Bargaining Support Staff
Any district employee in a leadership role who is not
evaluated by the instructional evaluation
systems.
Any district employee who is an individual contributor and
not evaluated by the instructional evaluation
systems.
Any district employee who is represented by the IUPAT
Local 1010 collective bargaining unit.
“Leadership” is defined as anyone who completes and
delivers employee evaluations and who is
responsible for discipline.
“Individual contributor” is defined as not being in a leadership role and not
represented by a collective bargaining unit.
Includes Core 1010, Professional/Technical Salaried and Hourly, Physical/Occupational
Therapy Assistant (POTA).
Associate Superintendent Finance, Cafeteria Manager,
Transportation Director, SACC Coordinator
School Secretary, Technology Associate, Systems Analyst,
Budgeting Coordinator, Administrative Assistant
Bus Driver, Custodian, Bookkeeper, Secretary, Media
Assistant, Instructional Assistant, Electrician
7 Performance and Professional Growth Systems Cycle
Step 3
Step 1
Step 2
Key Participants:Employee and
Direct Supervisor
Ongoing Throughout Cycle
Completed by end of September
Completed by end of January
Completed by early May
Mid-Year Conference: Review Expectations
and Adjust
8 Key elements included in all three systems:
Job Dimensions (the “How” of performance)
What are they? Which Job Dimensions are shared by all three
systems? Custom Job Dimensions for the Leadership
System Custom Job Dimensions for the Support Staff
Systems
Self-Evaluation
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What are Job Dimensions?
They are how employees go about doing their jobs.
They are the skills and abilities required to effectively complete job responsibilities and deliverables.
They include key competencies, including personality traits and attitudes such as ambition, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills that are held to be essential to performance of a job.
Key elements included in all three systems
10 Job Dimensions Common to All Three Systems
CommunicationsUnderstanding all modes of communications, including written, verbal, non-verbal,
and listening skills. Effective use in individual and group situations, and the ability to adjust the message to meet audience needs.
JudgmentThe act or process of forming an opinion or making a decision after careful thought.
Involves data gathering; consideration of alternatives; the use of logical assumptions; and cognizance of the potential outcomes of the opinion or decision
given organizational values, resulting in decisions that are objective and wise.
Customer ServiceProactively develop customer relationships by making efforts to listen to and
understand both internal and external customers. Anticipate and provide solutions to their needs. Give high priority to customer satisfaction.
TeamworkWorking effectively with team and work groups or those outside formal lines of
authority to accomplish organizational goals; taking actions that respect the needs and contributions of others; contributing to and accepting consensus; subordinating
own objectives to that of the team.
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Custom Job Dimensions for the Leadership System
Leadership
Work effectively using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to inspire and guide individuals (direct reports, peers, and superiors) toward goal achievement. Modify behaviors to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals. Create and
achieve a desired future vision by influencing organizational values, individual and group goals, and systems.
Management Skills
Coordinate the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Includes planning, organizing, staffing,
directing, and controlling an organization or initiative to accomplish goals. Also includes the deployment of human, financial, and technological resources.
Key elements included in all three systems
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Custom Job Dimensions for the Non-Bargaining and Bargaining Support Staff Systems
Technical Skills/Work Habits
Possessing the knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish the purpose and objectives of an assignment. Demonstrating the approach to completing tasks that ensures quality and productivity in one’s work. Caring enough about an organization to give it your all.
Initiative
Assessing and initiating things independently. The power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do. Possessing the confidence to do something proactive,
needed, important, or urgent without prompting from others.
Key elements included in all three systems
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Job Dimensions Guidebook Tools
List of Key Elements
Description of Behavioral Evidence
Skill Enhancers
Professional Growth Activities
Key elements included in all three systems
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Rubrics for Measuring Job Dimensions’ Performance
Highly Effective EffectiveNeeds
Improvement/Developing*
Unsatisfactory
Consistently exceeds expectations in the key elements and behavioral evidence of this job dimension.
Demonstrates strong performance in most key elements and behavioral evidence of this job dimension.
Performs to minimum expectations in several of the key elements and behavioral evidence of this job dimension.
Fails to meet the minimum performance requirements in most key elements and behavioral evidence of this job dimension.
*Is Developing in the first year in position.
Key elements included in all three systems
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Employee Self-Evaluation
Key elements included in all three systems
Employee has the opportunity to provide feedback for his/her evaluation.
Uses the same Evaluation Form, selecting Self-Evaluation from the drop-down menu.
For each Job Dimension, employee selects rating which best describes his/her performance.
Employee should add comments whenever possible to support his/her self rating.
16 Key Elements Included in Leadership andNon-Bargaining Support Systems:
Professional Growth Plan
Objectives (the “What” of performance) What are they? Developing SMART Objectives tied to
specific job dimensions
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Individual Professional Growth Plans
• Activities and training plans important in assisting employees in achieving the “What” of the job as well as the “How.”
• Improves personal performance and ensures individual development.
• Should be developed when establishing objectives and discussing job dimensions.
• Helps employees eliminate or reduce mistakes and identify personal style issues for improvement.
• Should focus on improving knowledge and skills that will increase the likelihood of success.
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems
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Objectives: What are They?
High-level list of three to four key areas for focus in accomplishing objectives.
Not a list of all tasks. At least one objective is directly tied to student
achievement.
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems
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Developing SMART Objectives
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems
Specific —What exactly are we going to do for whom?
Measurable —Is it quantifiable and can we measure it?
Achievable —Can it be done in the proposed time frame withthe resources and support available?
Relevant —Will this objective have an effect on thedesired goal or strategy?
Time bound —By when will this objective be accomplished?
20 Key Elements Included in Leadership andNon-Bargaining Support Systems, and
Optional for Bargaining Support
Mid-Year Conference Meeting
Associate Feedback (optional)
21Mid-Year Conference Meeting –
Review Expectations and Adjust
• Meeting held in the January time frame.
• Verify that established objectives remain appropriate, adjust any objectives if circumstances have changed, listen to the employee about any frustrations and concerns in achieving objectives, and offer to help remove constraints to success.
• Give employee feedback on the “How” of the job—the Job Dimensions.
• Helps ensure there are no surprises at annual performance appraisal time.
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems, and optional for Bargaining Support
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Associate Feedback
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems, and optional for Bargaining Support
Invaluable in providing a balanced view of how employees perform in the Job Dimensions while working with associates.
Can be peers, subordinates, superiors, and internal and external customers.
Request should be as simple as possible.
Recommended but not required.
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The point is not to associate individual comments to individual associates but to identify patterns in the employee’s performance of Job Dimensions that can help the supervisor praise the employee as well as identify areas needing improvement.
The employee should provide associates’ names, and the supervisor should add to the list.
Associate Feedback
Key elements included in Leadership and Non-Bargaining Support Systems, and optional for Bargaining Support
24 Pulling It All Together – The Annual Performance Appraisal
• Occurs in the May time frame.
• Use the same online form used to establish Objectives and Professional Growth Plans (if applicable).
• Utilize Self-Evaluation and Associate Feedback, if applicable, to write the evaluation, as well as supervisor notes and observations.
• Schedule sufficient time and privacy to deliver the evaluation’s contents.
• Review objectives and results; plan focus areas for following years.