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1. Decide how Job Scorecards may impact your internal processes. Will they impact performance reviews, development plans, or compensation, for example?
2. Work on Job Scorecards for the Executive Team first.
3. Roll Job Scorecards to each department. Start with an objective statement for the department, then identify each role in the department.
4. Managers work with each team member on their purpose within the department, the key responsibilities and desired results of their role, and the skills and competencies needed to fulfill those responsibilities.
The steps sound pretty straightforward but creating Job Scorecards for everyone can be quite an undertaking. It is important that the person filling the role and their manager are 100% aligned and that all the key responsibilities and results for the department are showing up on someone’s Job Scorecard. Often, this process takes some back and forth and involves individual work, one-on-one work with a manager, and time to share all the Scorecards as a team.
The best way to understand what each Job Scorecard entails is to see an example. My own manager, Chris Cosper, shared the example of her own Job Scorecard at our Breakthrough Conference last year.
Hopefully, this Job Scorecard Template (employee scorecard) will help you start the process of creating Job Scorecards for yourself and your team. With this role clarify, your team will be engaged and empowered to achieve performance goals and grow their most valuable skills. Job scorecards are recommended to be used in the hiring process by the experts at Topgrading.
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