Key Area Identification

Definition

Key Area Identification is the isolation of the relatively small number of activities critical to successful job performance. In other words, those areas it is most beneficial to concentrate on as they will produce maximum return.

Next in this module, you will be taken through five discreet stages that will help you identify and produce a list of the main Key Areas in your job. These are the five stages:

  1. The need for "Key Area" Identification
  2. Practise in identifying Key Areas
  3. Information gathering on your own job
  4. Identification of the Key Areas for your job
  5. Obtaining agreement from your manager

Once you have completed these sections, you will be able to move onto the next section. That is "Objective Setting", as a result of which you will have an achievable number of measurable targets in relation to your job.