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AJ11 Manage the performance of teams and individuals

AJ11.2 Agree objectives and work plans with teams and individuals

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. Giving opportunities to your team members to help define their own objectives and work plans
2. Developing objectives and work plans which are consistent with team and organisational objectives and agreeing these with all personnel in your area of responsibility
3. Ensuring that the objectives, work plans and schedules are realistic and achievable within organisational constraints
4. Ensuring that the objectives and work plans take account of team members' abilities and development needs
5. Explaining the objectives and work plans in sufficient detail and at a level and pace appropriate to your individual team members
6. Confirming team and individual understanding of, and commitment to, objectives and work plans at appropriate intervals
7. Providing advice and guidance on how to achieve objectives in sufficient detail and at times appropriate to the needs of teams and individuals
8. Updating the objectives and work plans regularly and taking account of any individual, team and organisational changes

Occupational Context

1. Objectives and work plans:
   • short-term
   • medium-term
   • long-term
2. Area of responsibility:
   • people for whom you have line responsibility
   • people for whom you have functional responsibility
3. Organisational constraints:
   • organisational objectives
   • organisational policies
   • resources

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Encourage and enable team members to define their own work objectives and plans
• Gain the commitment of team members to objectives and work plans
• Identify and devise objectives and work plans for the short, medium and long term
• Match objectives and work plans with individuals' abilities and development needs

You need to know about:

• The importance of good communication when explaining objectives and work plans
• The importance of consulting with team members and achieving consensus and agreement on objectives and work plans
• The types of issues on which your team members may need advice and guidance
• The organisational objectives and constraints which have a bearing on objectives and work plans
• The importance of agreeing objectives and work plans which are realistic and achievable
• The importance of regularly updating objectives and work plans
• The difference between someone who is within the manager's line management control and someone for whom the manager has functional responsibility, and the implications this difference may have for planning work

Required Skills

N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can agree objectives and work plans with teams and individuals.

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• agree objectives and work plans with teams and individuals

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in managing the performance of teams and individuals in a diverse range of contexts

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