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Performance management is the process of planning, measuring, monitoring, evaluating and improving the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations.  The main objective of performance management is to align individual and team efforts with organizational goals, and to ensure that employees are performing to the best of their abilities.  What are the many variables around all these; what works and what doesn't; what successes can we learn from?

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