Resources

Be A More Effective Manager With Better Performance Management Skills

By Arkgroup Leadership & Learning Team

July 25, 2025

By Arkgroup Leadership & Learning Team

Table of Contents

1. Managers Play A Critical Role In Your Organisational Success

Your managers are the direct link between organisational goals and employee execution. They are responsible for setting clear expectations and goals to guide their team members, providing feedback and coaching to enhance their competencies, recognising and rewarding their achievements to motivate them further. Without a doubt, the ability of your managers in performance management is vital for your organisational success.

The question is, “Are managers or supervisors adequately equipped to perform their roles competently?”. According to the State of the Global Workplace 2025 Report by Gallup, Inc., most managers are not receiving sufficient management training, even when management training has shown to improve their performance significantly.

44%

Less than half of the world’s managers (44%) say they have received management training.

28%

Teach managers effective coaching techniques to boost manager performance by 20% to 28%.

34%

When employers provide manager training, it improves manager thriving levels from 28% to 34%.

2. 4 Reasons Why Performance Management Skills Are Important

In more specific terms, what kind of improvements can you expect if your managers pick up and apply more effective performance management skills in their daily work? While these improvements may not be evident immediately, you should be able to notice them over the medium and long run.

Enhanced Employee Engagement and Motivation

With a clear performance framework, your managers can better align individual goals with organisational objectives, identify and address performance gaps, and foster a more collaborative environment.

Improved Team Performance and Productivity

With a clear performance framework, your managers can better align individual goals with organisational objectives, identify and address performance gaps, and foster a more collaborative environment.

Higher Talent Retention and Reduced Turnover

Employees are more likely to stay with organisations where they are engaged, feel supported, developed, and fairly evaluated. With fairer performance assessment aligned to organisational goals, high performance employees are less likely to leave your organisation.

Better Communication and Trust

Trained managers are more effective in facilitating open and honest dialogue, build trust, and address conflicts constructively during performance appraisal dialogue. This promotes better work relationships in the long run.

3. How Do You Improve Your Manager’s Performance Management Capability?

To begin with, you need to establish a performance management framework for your organisation, as it is the foundation that enables you to manage the human capital within your organisation. If you are unsure how to go about creating a performance management framework aligned to your organisational goals, let us help you set it up. Our team of trained professionals has a proven track record and strong experience in this area.

The 5 Elements of a Performance Management Framework

On top of that, you may also enrol your managers on our Performance Management workshop, where they will learn how to lead their teams to set objectives, provide them with constructive feedback and carry out an effective performance dialogue during appraisal.

Our experienced trainer will equip your managers with the knowledge and skills to set resulted-oriented targets that are aligned with your organisation’s goals, inspire performance, evaluate performance outcomes and assigning ratings objectively, as well as to design a development or improvement plan.

Lastly, this One Day Performance Management Workshop is eligible for SkillsFuture Subsidies. The actual funding level depends on whether you are tapping the baseline funding of up to 50% or the SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy that provides up to 70% funding. Get in touch with us now to find out how you can sign up for our upcoming workshop.

Tags:employee engagement HR capability building leadership development manager training performance appraisal performance management Singapore corporate training SkillsFuture workshop staff retention team productivity

ARK Leadership & Learning Can Equip Your Manager With The Necessary Skillsets to Effectively Lead Their Team.

We have the expertise to help you your managers improve their performance management capability – our consultants have over 20 years of experience in the field of human resource and performance management to assist our clients in building a robust team for the future. Contact us at +65 6604 6330 or Email us at llearning@arkgroup.com.sg for a discussion on your business’s needs.

Our Programmes

Back to Resources