Focus is Oakwood’s on-line system for delivering Performance Management in your business. It is built around the Performance Management in your organisation and will enable you to:

• Implement and track on-line appraisals
• Monitor objective setting and performance rating
• Assess competencies
• Plan development
• Link to learning libraries
• Link to on-line support tools to help managers and individual staff with every aspect of the performance management process

Cascading Objectives

Cascade Corporate, Divisional and Team objectives through the business. Live information on business performance can be instantly communicated to all levels.

Setting Objectives

The process of managing performance depends crucially on managers and staff defining what they are going to achieve and monitoring that achievement. Focus provides managers and staff with an on-line toll, which gives access to objectives, assessments and progress made towards achieving those objectives. It comes with a valuable support toolkit to help everyone get the best from the process. Included are:

• On-line library of objectives, giving detailed examples of how to set objectives for areas of diverse as People Management, Project Management, Telephone Answering and Systems Development
• Online objective setting tool that takes you through a five step process to create quality objectives in any area.

Rating Performance

Focus allows managers and staff to rate performance against objectives and to link this to reward. Focus comes with support tools to help managers make balanced judgements, taking into account:

• Shifting competitive, legal and other environmental factors
• Different degrees of help or hindrance provided to individuals in attaining their objectives

These on-line tools make the assessment of performance more accurate, consistent and focused.

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