Gain insights into performance management for engineering teams. Discover how to set clear expectations, design performance metrics, and provide constructive feedback to enhance team productivity and accountability.

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A manager is responsible for assigning tasks to the team members, keeping tabs on the progress, and analyzing their performance. A good manager must know their strengths and use them accordingly.

This course covers the essentials of performance management in engineering teams. You’ll learn the importance of setting clear expectations and the difference between individual and collective accountability. You’ll learn the importance of performance metrics and design them for your team. Next, you’ll explore ways to keep your team motivated and provide each team member with constructive feedback. You’ll learn how to decide when to let a team member go, including planning for a successor.

By the end of this course, you’ll have learned to apply processes and practices to monitor the performance of your team. You’ll be able to provide timely and constructive feedback to your team, including performance reviews. In addition, you’ll be able to balance a team with members having varying performances and competencies.

Effective Performance Management for Engineering Teams

Simply getting your team to meet their goals, while often a good thing, is not the most you can be doing for your team. If you truly want to be one of those rarified few that people will speak of when they speak of "the best managers they ever had," you need to be actively looking to grow your team members, even to the point where they are skilled beyond the needs of your team. It may seem counterintuitive---don't we want our team to get to the "performing" step and just stay there, *ad infinitum*?---but having a team that's constantly "graduating" people to higher-level roles and responsibilities is the height of success as a manager. Doing so is hard, and requires time and dedication on both the part of the employee and the manager, but it's the clear mark of a servant leader, and it's what sets the great managers apart from the merely competent.

Grow your team, and you will find yourself growing yourself along with it, without even realizing it.

Remember this advice when you’re actively looking to grow as a manager: grow your team, and you will grow with them.

Introduction

Overview of Performance Management

The Need for Clear Expectations

Accountability

Metrics

Motivation

Feedback

Performance Reviews

Corrections

Termination/Separation

Rewards

The Development of Talent

Conclusion

Advice for When You Apply These Ideas