02 · DESIGN
PERFORMANCE DESIGN SYSTEM™
Redesign the organisational conditions that determine performance.
Performance System Design™ creates a coherent future state around the performance challenge your organisation is trying to solve.
We do not start with the appraisal form, rating scale or technology workflow. We start with the organisational outcome and design the surrounding system so strategy, work, accountability, management practice, reward, governance and culture reinforce one another.
Design the system, not just the process.
PERFORMANCE DESIGN SYSTEM™
Create coherence
Connect the elements that shape performance rather than optimising one process in isolation.
Design for the people who use it
Make the future state practical for leaders, managers, employees and HR, not merely elegant on paper.
Build in governance and capability
Ensure the organisation can operate the design consistently while retaining appropriate judgement and flexibility.
Design for implementation
Identify the organisational, technology, capability and measurement implications before rollout begins.
PERFORMANCE DESIGN SYSTEM™
SQUARED™
SQUARED™ is Optimum Squared's proprietary framework for understanding seven interconnected conditions that influence sustainable performance:
Structure · Quality · Understanding · Accountability · Reward · Execution · Dynamics
The framework helps us examine performance as an organisational system.
Illustrative outputs
• Future state performance architecture
• Clear design principles and executive decisions
• Employee and manager experience requirements
• Governance and accountability requirements
• Capability and technology implications
• Measurement approach
• Implementation roadmap
