Practical Performance Management For Human-Centered Leaders
A practical, human-centered program that helps managers handle performance conversations with confidence—so accountability improves without damaging trust or relationships.
Do Your Managers Struggle With Consistent Performance Management?
Performance conversations don’t have to feel awkward—or avoided. Practical Performance Management for Human-Centered Leaders equips leaders with practical tools, language, and confidence to handle accountability, feedback, and performance appraisal conversations with clarity and care.
This deeply customized program strengthens managerial courage, reduces over-reliance on HR, and helps leaders coach employees to performance—while also reinforcing and retaining high-potential talent. Through role-plays and peer feedback tailored to your specific workplace situations, managers practice navigating defensiveness, emotions, and recurring issues to build trust and drive results.
What Leaders Will Learn
Practical Performance Management for Human-Centered Leaders equips managers with practical tools, language, and confidence to handle accountability, feedback, and performance appraisal conversations with clarity and care.
Strong Performance Foundations
Build a foundation for team performance that eliminates the most common performance conversations.
Early, Respectful Accountability
Address performance issues early—without damaging relationships
Coaching to Performance
Coach employees to performance (instead of fixing problems for them)
Reinforcing Feedback
Give reinforcing feedback that retains and motivates top talent
Confidence in Difficult Conversations
Handle defensiveness, emotion, and excuse-making with confidence
How the Program Works
Designed to work across cultures, with customized programs delivered in the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
1-Day In-Person Workshop
Interactive, facilitator-led sessions with real-world role-plays
Virtual Live-Online Series
Engaging sessions designed for distributed teams
Train-the-Trainer Program
Equip internal facilitators to deliver the program consistently
Trusted by Leaders
“Partnering with Let’s Grow Leaders has been a highly impactful experience for our organization. The program was thoughtfully customized to our culture and leadership realities, which made the content immediately relevant and practical for our leaders. The role-play scenarios, grounded in real situations our managers face, were especially critical to the program’s success—helping leaders build confidence and capability in a safe, realistic way.”
The feedback from participants has been overwhelmingly positive. Every leader who has attended the workshop to date has said they would recommend it to their peers, and many report feeling better equipped to have courageous, human-centered performance conversations. Most notably, we are hearing leaders say they are now genuinely excited to engage in performance discussions with their teams—an important mindset shift that speaks to the effectiveness of the program.”
Miriam Calvo-Gil, Sr. Learning & Development Program Manager, Proponent
Ready to Build Confident, Accountable Leaders?
If your managers need practical tools and the confidence to use them this program can help. Let’s talk about how Practical Performance Management for Human-Centered Leaders can be customized for your organization.