Personal Development

Personal Development Plans and Development Targets

PerformanceHub supports Personal Development Plans (PDPs) and training records, helping employees manage their personal development and grow within your organisation.

If you have a Learning & Development manager in your organisation, then the reports generated by PerformanceHub on development and training are indispensable. PDPs in detail.

Ad-hoc, 180 and 360 Degree Feedback

Feedback is a great way to get a more rounded view of someone’s performance. Employees can give feedback to anyone in your organisation. The feedback is added to their review and can be seen by the employee and their manager. If the feedback is a bit sensitive, then the person giving it can say “for manager’s eyes only”. They can also provide the feedback anonymously to avoid those awkward moments.

In addition to this ad-hoc feedback, employees or managers can ask for feedback with specific questions to specific people in preparation for a review. In this way, you can provide 180 or 360 degree feedback to get a really good view on someone’s performance. Employee Feedback support.

Customisable Performance Reviews

Appraisal templates can be customised, you can add your own sections to an appraisal template to collect any type of information or to tease information out of people to improve the quality of performance review meetings. These sections can be configured to work in a number of different ways depending on what they are being used for.

You can add any number of sections into an appraisal, for instance:

• Performance against company values.
• Training/qualification data.
• Top 3 strengths/areas for development.
• Leadership values.
• Career aspirations
• You can also add a competency based reviews so employees can be reviewed against the competencies for their particular role.

Finally, you can add 3rd party sign-off, so the direct report, manager and manager’s manager all have input to an employee’s appraisal.

More on performance reviews..

One to One Meetings

One to one meetings are an important part of continuous improvement and the “no surprises” principle.

PerformanceHub can take care of your one to one meetings process and provide both managers and their direct reports a place to record meetings notes for each meeting held.

Meeting agendas can be fixed so that consistent meetings are encouraged, or managers can change agendas on a per direct report basis for a more role focussed approach.

HR have access to the notes, along with various reports that allow them to see who is/isn’t having meetings and how frequently they are taking place.

Competency Frameworks

A powerful, feature to make your reviews competency based.

When enabled, you can create a library of competencies and roles, then assign a role to an employee and a new competency review section will appear in their review.

A competency has a Title, Description and then any number of ‘performance levels’ associated with it.
A role has any number of competencies, each with an associated performance level.

When it comes to the review, both the manager and direct report select the most appropriate performance level against each competency. PerformanceHub will highlight areas where improvement is needed and how to improve performance against that particular competency.

Talent Management and Succession Planning

There are many ways PerformanceHub can support you in your talent management and succession planning process, and central to them are Appraisal Tags and Notes.

Appraisal Tags are powerful ‘snippets’ of information HR can create and associate with an employee’s appraisal. Think of them like ‘stickers’ that you can ‘put on’ employee’s appraisals and are only visible to HR.

You can use them for all sorts of things, but perhaps the best way to describe them would be to walk through an example use.

Let’s say that you have a talent management and succession planning process you want to keep track of. You already have all sorts of information in PerformanceHub about people’s performance, and you may also collect other data you can make use of through PerformanceHub’s “Appraisal Fields” feature too. The Appraisal Tags, you can bring distil all this information down to 1 or more configurable tabs, which you can then analyse in the Distributions tool and other reports.