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Keep up with the latest goings on at Cogendo, and up to date news from PerformanceHub
The importance of corporate transparency
In the early days of our company, we hammered out a set of principles. Not only corporate principles, but in particular those that our system should embody. One of those was transparency, which has turned out to be a bit of a thorny issue. What I'm thinking about more...
Employee Performance Ratings – Words or Numbers?
So, you're designing your new employee performance management process and you're wondering whether your should use numbers or words for your overall performance rating.. You might be considering a 3, 4 or 5 point scheme with "Outstanding" as the best performance and...
What’s best: Lock-step or anniversary based employee performance reviews
We are often asked whether PerformanceHub supports anniversary based performance reviews. The short answer no. PerformanceHub only supports ‘lock-step’ reviews (sometimes referred to as "focal performance reviews"). If you are thinking about this for your...
PerformanceHub Update
New in this release: Interim Review Enhancements The interim name (e.g. Mid-Year Review) is now referenced throughout PerformanceHub (no more references to a generic ‘interim’ which sometimes confused people). You can now define your own instructional text for each...
Cogendo Achieve ISO 27001 Certification
Today we’re proud to announce that Cogendo has been certified for compliance with the ISO 27001 information security standard. What is ISO 27001? ISO 27001 is the international standard for information security management. It specifies a set of best practices and...
PerformanceHub is GDPR Compliant
Just a quick note. Earlier on in May, we released the final 2 tweaks to PerformanceHub to make it 100% GDPR compliant. We did it with no fuss and without sending a billion messages to the world and his wife either. So, you can’t accuse us of filling up your...
One-to-One Agendas
We have just released a great new feature for one-to-one meetings: Agendas. For the 30% of our customers who don’t have one-to-ones turned on (yes, 70% of customers do have it turned on, in fact it’s one of PerformanceHub’s most popular features), one-to-ones is a...
User Statuses
We’ve just released a new version of PerformanceHub with a new feature you may want to make immediate use of, so please read on.. “New User Statuses” You know how most employees in PerformanceHub are “Enabled”, but there are also statuses like Leaving, Past Employee...
Introducing Appraisal Notes
Hot on the heels of the last new feature we introduced (Competency Comments), over the weekend we released another new feature – “Appraisal Notes”. It allows HR and HR Partners to add notes to employee’s appraisals. It can be used as a stand-alone feature or in...
Introducing Competency Comments
Over the weekend we released a new feature for competency based reviews. It allows managers and direct reports to add comments against individual competencies when reviewing performance against them. As a bit of background – before the release, if you are using...
