Performance management and development 

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Support the ongoing growth and development of your employees by helping them improve their job performance and reach career goals.  


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Guide

This guide is designed to support trucking employers of all sizes, including small fleet operations where managers take on HR responsibilities alongside their operational roles.

Whether you’re leading drivers, dispatchers, mechanics, or office staff, this guide will help you create a consistent and equitable approach to setting expectations, providing feedback, and developing potential across your company while ensuring employees have what they need to succeed.

Resources

Performance management and development

Support your employees and their job performance and career goals.

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Performance appraisals: Best practice guide and template examples

Performance Appraisals: Best Practices & Template Examples helps trucking and logistics employers create consistent, respectful, and effective performance review processes. This resource provides guidance on preparing for appraisal conversations, setting SMART goals, delivering constructive feedback, and using practical templates to support employee development, role clarity, and continuous performance improvement.

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From reviews to results: A guide to performance management

Support stronger performance conversations and clearer expectations. This guide helps trucking and logistics employers set role-specific goals, develop practical KPIs, conduct regular check-ins, complete effective performance appraisals, address underperformance fairly, and connect performance management with employee development and retention.

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The Individual Development Plan: A Tool to Help Managers Support Employee Learning and Development

Support employee growth with a simple, structured development plan. This resource helps trucking and logistics employers and managers use Individual Development Plans to guide career conversations, identify skill gaps, set learning objectives, support employee engagement, and strengthen internal talent pipelines.