Introducing ACHIEVE. UCI’s staff performance program.

WHY

TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

UCI is a premiere public research university and academic medical center. To maintain our position and advance even higher, we must work smarter, better, faster. We have to encourage bold, innovative thinking, allow for calculated failure and learn from our mistakes in order to continually improve our organization and meet the demands of tomorrow. To achieve this, we must become an agile, performance driven, engaged workforce, and the way we do this is through a staff performance program that supports such a workforce.

GOAL: Support a workforce that is

2 PERFORMANCE DRIVEN

A results oriented, performance driven workforce

Chancellor Gillman has put in place our strategic plan that sets forth an ambitious path to reach new heights of excellence and social impact. The way to drive UCI to new heights is to align employees’ individual and team goals with the organization’s strategic goals. When employees have a direct line of sight between their performance and the goals of the organization, they understand the value of their contributions and the important role they play in helping the organization achieve success. Discussing employees’ performance goals and the progress toward achieving those goals on a regular basis drives performance.
3 ENGAGED

An engaged workforce

Employees who receive regular coaching, mentoring and professional development from their managers and have direct line-of-sight between their performance contributions and the success of the organization, feel empowered, energized, connected and committed to the organization. This increased engagement results in employee retention, innovative, efficient, cost effective solutions, and, overall improved organizational performance.

WHAT

BELOW ARE THE KEY ELEMENTS OF ACHIEVE.

  • Staff alignment with UCI success
  • Informal check-ins three times per year
  • Regular mentoring, coaching and development
  • Define 1 to 5 performance goals
  • Five meaningful check-in discussion questions

NO MORE

  • Annual performance evaluations
  • Annual performance ratings
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HOW

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