Relative Targets Quick Start | Performance systems that work

What are Relative Targets about? Relative Targets is nothing less than the reinvention of organizational performance systems – suitable for companies and not-for-profits of all kinds: It is a powerful and elegant social technology for every organization of 25 people or more.Relative Targets differs from other well-known approaches to performance systems in thatit scales naturally,it does not require constant training and external or internal support,it drives out coercion and fear,it makes annual target-setting and planning exercises superfluous, while dramatically increasing transparency and control,it simplifies reporting and improves complianceMost importantly: Relative Targets empower teams (or «cells») to act as highly responsible mini-enterprises. Pioneers of Relative Targets have operated this kind of performance system for decades, and have become undisputed leaders of their industries.

How to get going with Relative Targets? The Relative Targets Quick Start course is a great way to get acquainted with the approach. You can start employing Relative Targets in your organization at any time. One can go live with a Relative Targets performance system within a few months.

Where did Relative Targets originate? Niels Pflaeging started pioneering Relative Targets 20 years ago, when he joined the Beyond Budgeting Round Table as a director, in 2003. At the time, some high-performing companies like Handelsbanken, Toyota, Semco and Aldi were using Relative Targets with great success. Others, like Buurtzorg, would later follow. The BetaCodex Network white paper Making Performance Work from 2009 is testament to Niels’ ongoing research and client work around relative performance systems. In 2021, with dozens of consulting projects around performance systems under his belly, Niels decided to make Relative Targets more widely available as a free-to-use, open source social technology. Relative Targets is bound to revolutionize performance management and organizational leadership alike!

About the Red42 Quick Start format

• 2-hour on-line format – no prior reading required! Checking out the Relative Targets web page and white paper might help you get you in the mood for the session, though.
• The session is high on information and context, with some exercises.
• You will also learn about what makes Relative Targets unique and effective, compared to conventional performance management approaches.

Contents of this course

• Chapter 1. Practical relativity theory for organizations & collaboration: Key concepts, principles, axioms, history and methods of Relative Targets
• Chapter 2. Making Relative Performance work: How to approach the topics of transparency, planning, reporting, targets/indicators, resource coordination, and pay
• Chapter 3. Case studies, specific indicators and targets, report examples, Do’s and Don’ts
• Chapter 4. What now? Approaching organizational hygiene; achieving buy-in; getting there in full within just 8 weeks; next steps you can take

Who should attend? This course is perfect for anyone who wants to reflect upon and understand concepts and techniques of humanistic, complexity-robust and effective performance systems. You will especially benefit from the course if you are already in doubt about common performance management practices, and if you want to shape work and organizations in a contemporary, democratic and effective fashion.

What you gain from participating

• Learn about the world’s most elegant, most adaptive, least wasteful and most coherent approach to organizational performance systems.
• Reflect upon well-known and lesser known performance practices, tools and approaches – and learn to distinguish between the good, the bad and the partially true in performance management.
• Understand why conventional “fixed” target and indicator systems worsen performance and increase waste.
• Pick up techniques you can use immediately.
• Identify for yourself if you want to introduce Relative Targets to your own organization, or make it happen with clients.
• Get your questions answered about the Relative Targets approach.

Participation fee The participation fee in this Quick Start course is EUR 180,00 – plus VAT (if applicable). A 10% discount applies for simultaneous registration of several persons from the same organization – get in touch with Claudia Keller, claudia.keller@redforty2.com

Registration & contact. All registrations through Eventbrite. Contact person for this course, including inquiries about group discounts or in-house offers is Claudia Keller, claudia.keller@redforty2.com