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Keep up with the latest goings on at Cogendo, and up to date news from PerformanceHub
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...
Employee Performance Ratings – Words or Numbers?
So, you're designing your new employee performance management process and you're wondering how to rate employee performance. Should you use numbers or words for your overall performance score? You might be considering a 3, 4 or 5 point scheme with "Outstanding" as the...
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...
Employee Interim Review Enhancements
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...
