Performance Counseling & Career Planning

Performance Counseling & Career Planning

What is Performance Counseling?Performance Counseling is a very important activity that helps employees to know themselves better. Performance Counseling refers to the help provided by a manager to his subordinates in objectively analyzing their performance. It attempts to help the employee in:

Understanding himself - his strengths and weaknesses.Improving his professional and interpersonal competence by giving him feedback about his behavior.Setting goals and formulating action plans for further improvement.

Features of Performance CounselingConditions for effective counseling

A climate of trust, confidence and openness is essential for effective counseling. Counseling cannot be effective if the subordinate does not trust his boss.

It is necessary that the subordinate should feel free to participate without fear or inhibition as it is a dialogue between supervisor and subordinate and hence should be a two way communication.

The main purpose of counseling is employee development.

Features of Performance Counseling(2) Performance Counseling Phases

Rapport BuildingExplorationAction PlanningProcesses in Performance Counseling

CAREER PLANNING

IntroductionCareer: Herbert Simon defines career as an honorable occupation which one normally takes up during his/her youth with the expectation of advancement and pursues it until retirement Career planning and development is a means by which an organisation can sustain or increase its employees productivity and at the same time preparing them for a changing world.

According to Milkovich and Boudreau

Career development =

Career management + Career planning

Objective of career planningIdentifying and making clear opportunities available. To reduce employee turnover.To Increase productivity.To identify the career stages and enhance the motivational level.To achieve the organisations goal by providing the employees paths to reach higher order needs.

Career Planning Flow & StagesCareer PlanningCareer GoalsCareer PathsCareerFeed BackRetirement NeedsSafety, Security PhysiologicalSafety, Security Achievement esteem, autonomy Esteem actualization Self actualization Age202530455565Career StagesExplorationEstablishment AdvancementMaintenance Career stages and Important needs Scope Of Career PlanningHuman Resource forecasting and planningCareer InformationCareer CounselingCareer PathingSkill Assessment trainingSuccession Planning

CAREER ANCHORSTechnical CompetenceManagerial competenceStability and SecurityCreativity and ChallengeFreedom and AutonomyDedication to a causeLifestyle

Why a career plan could fail !Efforts are insincereLook for immediate benefitsLack of interaction with hired agenciesImpracticability in introductionNo system to evaluateBureaucratic model of organization