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Performance Management

What is Performance Management?

The process of ensuring that organizational activities and outputs align with goals and objectives through monitoring, measurement, and improvement.

Governance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as performance management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on performance management

Requirements naming performance management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The performance of the data management program is measured and managed against defined objectives and metrics.

DCAM-3.3 · Program Performance Management
ITIL 41 control

Ensure that services achieve agreed and expected performance, satisfying current and future demand cost-effectively through capacity planning, modelling, and monitoring.

SM-CAP-1 · Capacity and Performance Management

Integrate competencies into job profiles, recruitment, performance management, and learning, with annual competency assessment of staff, calibration across managers, and use of results to inform development and career progression.

WHO-ASSESS-01 · Competency Assessment and Performance Management

Lloyds of London Cyber Insurance Requirements - Affirmative Cyber Coverage Mandate. Following Lloyds Market Bulletin Y5258 (issued 16 August 2022) all Property Policies underwritten by Lloyds market participants must clearly state from 31 March 2023 onwards wh...

LLOYDS-CI-Affirmative-Coverage-Property-Cyber-Mandatory-Clarity-LMA-Model-Clauses-March-2023-Implementation · Lloyds Cyber Insurance Affirmative Coverage + LMA Model Clauses + March 2023

Hersey-Blanchard SLT 2024-2025 pipeline + emerging trends. KEY 2024-2025 PRIORITIES: (a) AI-DRIVEN COACHING - SLII + LEAD-aligned coaching via BetterUp + CoachHub + Bunch + Sounding Board + EzraCoach + similar platforms;

HB-SLT-2024-2025-AI-Hybrid-DEI-Mental-Health · Hersey-Blanchard SLT 2024-2025 Pipeline - AI Coaching, Hybrid/Remote Leadership, DEI, Mental Health + Burnout

Kotter 8-Step Step 5 - Enable Action by Removing Barriers. Eliminate obstacles + change systems or structures that undermine the vision + encourage risk-taking and non-traditional ideas + actions.

KOTTER-Step5-Enable-Action-Removing-Barriers-Empowerment-Structures-Systems-Skills-Supervisors-Resistance-Management · Kotter Step 5 Enable Action by Removing Barriers + Empowerment + Resistance Management

Questions people ask about performance management

What is Performance Management?
The process of ensuring that organizational activities and outputs align with goals and objectives through monitoring, measurement, and improvement.
Why is Performance Management important for compliance?
Performance Management is a key concept in Governance. Understanding performance management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Performance Management?
Performance Management appears in the requirement text of EDM Council DCAM - Data Management Capability Assessment Model, ITIL 4, WHO Global Competency Model, Lloyd's of London Cyber Insurance Requirements and Underwriting Standards, Hersey & Blanchard Situational Leadership Model. Across these standards we have identified 10 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Performance Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how performance management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Performance Management applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.