What is Employee Performance and Development System (EPDS)?
Employee Performance and Development System (EPDS) is the name of the new employee performance management system being implemented throughout the State of Wyoming during the calendar year of 07-08. The EPDS process is where employees and supervisors identifies how each person in a work team will help realize the business goals identified in the branch or division or agency strategic plan. The EPDS process consists of an annual cycle made up of three phases: • Planning – employees – with support and input from their supervisors – identify work goals, examples of behavioral competency actions, and learning goals that directly contribute to achieving unit, branch and division goal as well as agency performance measures; • Focusing / Realignment / Mid-Course Adjustment – employees and supervisors engage in regular, ongoing conversations in order to make sure work goals, behavioral competency actions, and learning goals are still relevant and that progress is being made; and • Review – empl
