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Performance Management: Objective setting for Managers (Udemy.com)

Learn how to quickly create focus and clarity for your team. Boost team performance with quality performance objectives.

Created by: Richard Lock

Last updated December 2024

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What you will learn

  • ensure your teams are crystal clear on the results expected of them.
  • how to use S.M.A.R.T. objectives for maximum performance management benefit
  • how to avoid the standards trap
  • How to create a simple 1 page plan to give focus and clarity to a team

How it compares

Against the other 230 rated Udemy courses in Leadership & Management on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 15% of them
  • Reviews948#120 of 231 by number of reviews
  • Length1.2 hoursshorter than 75% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2024earlier than 62% of them

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Course Description

If you want to get the best out of your team - working with high quality performance objectives is key.

The ability to use performance objectives to provide focus and clarity for your team is one of the foundations of effective management.

This short course will step both new and more experienced managers through a best practice objective setting process. The ability to agree high quality performance objectives is a key step in managing performance of any team or individual.

It will highlight the common traps that even more experienced managers fall into and help you avoid them.

It will enable new managers to hit the objectives deck running.

Applying powerful performance objectives and skills dramatically increase the probability you will:

  • manage a best performing team

  • manage a team that know what is expected of them

  • manage a team that delivers on its objectives and gets results.

The principles are important, but the execution critical. Weak objectives typically result in weak performance.

The course is short and focused so you can refresh your thinking whenever you find yourself agreeing new objectives with team members. 

Think of it  as a pocket coach. Something you can access quickly and easily whenever you need to.

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Instructor Details

Richard Lock

International Management Trainer | Speaker | Facilitator | Business Coach helping organizations get the best from people and people to get the best from themselves.  

Thank You - for checking out at my profile.  

You're probably wondering why on earth you should take my online courses, or even work with me more directly.  

Well, I've had the privilege to have been a learning and development professional for close to 30 years now. In that time I've worked with a very wide range of organisations and people from all walks of life, and many different countries and backgrounds.  

My focus is on helping people learn skills, techniques and behaviours that will add practical value in their everyday lives. That's typically in their business and professional lives, yet often the skills and concepts are very applicable to more personal development outside of work. What matters to me is that the learning is not simply just theoretical, but practically applicable. Knowing stuff is good, but we get improved results and personal growth when we actually apply our learning and do something with it. That's where we really add value.  

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Reviews

4.3

948 ratings on Udemy

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By OLUKOYA Abiodun Olatunbosun on 2/27/2025

This is a very good course. It is helpful in setting objectives, understanding of urgency and importance, allocation of 20% effort to tasks for 80% result. It is a sure guide for managers in setting target for both task and people management.

By Celestine Udeagbala on 2/26/2025

Excellent, highly educative. It is explicit and will help participants in setting SMART objectives and ensures proper monitoring, feedback and performance appraisal for improvement purposes. I appreciate HCM team for making the training "MUST DO" for all existing and new Managers.

By William Domino on 12/16/2023

I would like to be able to download a PDF document of the topic covered in each section as some other course I have taken have done. This allows me or other to study more and use as reference to implement the learned task.

By Mark Baillie on 6/15/2020

Some contradictions in the objective examples as to what the course taught on how to write an example. For instance is said us specific dates including year then gave an example of increase by 3 clients in the next two months!

By Dahir Wehlie on 5/30/2020

I really got very good experience with this course and i will be excited to get relevant knowledge of the course and at the end earn my certificate to prove for my continuous learning with Udemy

By Anonymized User on 4/19/2019

Really great course! It was punchy, on topic and didn't tangent into unrelated things. Concepts were well delivered and easy to absorb. I found the example objectives exercise in the early-middle a little hard to follow because they were so open ended; I would have liked better a kind of case study or profile of a specific organization and what objectives it would set and how they could be improved in their situation. Otherwise, I really really enjoyed the course and highly recommend it.

By Anonymized User on 11/20/2018

I like this course, it helped to reinforce concepts and theories I already knew by presenting them in different context I hadn't thought about before. Sometimes you need to hear someone else explain something before it really clicks and that's what this one has really done for me.

By Stephen Blunt on 9/23/2018

A short (around 1 hour) series of videos and activities that have application to all objective setting contexts. If you are new to objective setting and SMART objectives then this is a good introduction. If you are experienced in these then this is an excellent refresher.

By Chris Gammage on 8/30/2017

Good information. Well presented. Only complaints would be about production issues: sound was way to low _except_ in the bonus lecture (sales pitch), green screen backdrops useful when presenting concepts but not as nice as a real setting when just talking.

By Sergio Andronik on 8/13/2017

Yeap. That course started a few questions, that I didn't ask myself. So I benefit from taking this course and now after finish it - can say, that taking benefits from it. Recommend taking it.

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Overall Score : 86 / 100