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Fostering and rewarding excellence starts with creating a culture of feedback, where open and honest conversations are held regularly to facilitate individual and organizational performance success. Here we provide tips to facilitate conversations, set goals, and other resources to support your journey as a manager.


Grow and Perform at Stanford

Grow and Perform at Stanford (GPS) offers a new way of thinking and doing performance management across the university that introduces a universal framework and system to enable employees to perform to their highest potential in pursuit of achieving the university's mission and goals. 

Rooted in the growth mindset, GPS focuses on the value of ongoing, quality dialogue between a manager and employee to promote continual growth, drive results and accountability.

The GPS journey embraces continuous performance management with feedback, coaching, and recognition taking place throughout. Below you'll find tools and other resources to guide you through each phase.

Visit the Grow and Perform at Stanford website for a complete list of manager support tools


Performance Management@Stanford Program and Simple Eval

The Performance Management@Stanford program and Simple Eval will sunset in December 2020. For performance management assistance, please contact your school/business unit HR manager or representative.


1:1 Development Coaching, powered by CoachHub

Elevate your professional growth and development with 1:1 Development Coaching, powered by CoachHub. Get three months of unlimited, personalized virtual coaching to address your unique professional development and/or career enrichment goals. Read more on Cardinal at Work to learn more about other university coaching services and how 1:1 Development Coaching, powered by CoachHub differs.