This week SHRM launched the second National Standards Development Task Force (Performance Management) since being named a Standards Development Organization (SDO) in February by the American National Standards Institute (the ISO member for the US).

In May, the first Standards Task force, Staffing and Workforce Planning, was launched to initially address three standards in the area of metrics, job description and WP as a way of jump starting its longer term of work. 170 professionals within the staffing community- academics, research and consulting professionals, suppliers and vendors, etc. responded to the call for interest by the closing date of June 5. (As these standards get addressed and are offered for public comment there will be more opportunities to participate in new staffing standards- for those of us who like this sort of thing).

I'm leading the Staffing & WP Standards Task Force and expect announcements regarding the colleagues I've appointed for each of the staffing and WP standards initiatives will be in place this week. After discussions with them during next week's SHRM conference we hope the full task force meetings will begin in July.

If performance management is a part of your firm's or your function's DNA, you might want to consider (or share with a colleague that they should consider) getting involved. Unfortunately, SHRM's PR announcements could use more "call to action" language and resource links. So, just send a note to lee.webster@shrm.org and mention Performance Management Standards as your interest. He'll send you info on how to register.