Latest News
Keep up with the latest goings on at Cogendo, and up to date news from PerformanceHub
Visual Overhaul
Ahh, that fresh paint smell.... If you have logged onto PerformanceHub recently, you would have noticed quite a few subtle changes to the look and feel. We've spent a little time overhauling colours, text boxes, pop-ups and drop-downs. There are some wording changes...
Matrix Management Reports
A small update this one - we have introduced a few reports around matrix management and general reporting lines. Because line managers can assign matrix managers to their direct reports, often there is no central view of the overall organisation structure. We just...
Role Based Appraisal Forms
Another update to PerformanceHub to tell you about.. Role Based Fields (AKA appraisal sections) You now have the ability to add sections to an appraisal that are role dependant. For example, you might want to add a question to an appraisal that should only...
New Continuous Performance Development Features
New PerformanceHub Release We have added to our existing set of features, to bring you even more ways to be more in-keeping with 'continuous performance development'. If you want to move towards 'Continuous performance development' (more of a living document, than an...
User Country Codes
We have added ISO country codes and names to a user's profile. You can now, optionally, add a user's country to their profile. And because of this change, many reports are now filterable by country. A real win for our multi-national customers!
Managing Job Titles and Employee Locations
The clever way PerformanceHub manages employee job titles and locations has saved our admin users many headaches vs traditional HRIS systems (which often allow you to get in a real mess) but today, we took things a step further by introducing 'usage' stats on the...
Manager’s Eyes Only
Controversial - maybe, but in this release we have introduced the ability to add "Manager's eyes only" sections to employee appraisals. Essentially, allow a manager to add notes to an appraisal that their direct report can't see. We've resisted this change for a...
Rating employee competencies or behaviours
In this post, we outline 2 different methods for rating employee performance against competencies or behaviours. In particular, where the expected performance level depends on seniority within a role. Spoiler - we recommend method 2!Method 1 - Simple Met/Not Met...
Merry Christmas 2019
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Cogendo! OK, why a news post just to say happy Christmas you ask? Well, we've done something this year that we hope will inspire you to do the same.. Normally, we would send e-cards to all our customers (rather...
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...
