Reclaim your time this performance review season

Simplify the admin and make a genuine impact with Perform

Getting performance management right is one of the most important challenges for any HR team – whether you’re managing the administrative tasks associated with the performance review cycle, taking steps to ensure fairness and objectivity, or guiding managers to provide effective feedback and coaching.

This three-part blog series is dedicated to help you master each step of the process. In these practical guides, you’ll learn about our latest Perform updates and how you can make the most of them. Want to see these new tools in action? Join our exclusive webinar, “From Process to Performance,” for a live demo of our new time-saving features and a special look at our AI roadmap. [EMEA] [NA]

Does performance review season feel more like an administrative exercise than a strategic one? For many HR teams, review cycles can become a blur of spreadsheets and follow-up emails. The focus becomes more about completing the process than on achieving meaningful results. If you feel like you’re losing sight of the impact, you’re not alone.

Research from Gartner has shown that managers spend an average of 210 hours a year on performance management activities, and their number one frustration is how time-consuming the process is. It's no wonder that a different study found only 8% of companies believe their process actually drives high performance. Many performance review systems consume huge amounts of time with very little tangible result.

But what if you could trade that administrative burden for genuine impact? What if you could move beyond tracking completion rates and start having conversations that actually drive performance? It all starts with having tools built for flexibility and ease. To help companies strategically drive performance, we’ve released several new updates across Perform.

Tame the process

Imagine that you’ve just launched your cycle to hundreds of people. Then you spot it… a typo in a key question. In the past, you might’ve had to live with it or start over. This is now a simple fix. We’ve released live questions edits even after a cycle has launched, because your tools should adapt to you, not the other way around.

That same need for flexibility is why we created unified cycles. Whether you’re a team of 200 or 20,000, you can now manage all your review units and languages in one central, simplified workflow. For global teams, this means our multilingual capabilities are seamlessly integrated, making it simple to deliver a consistent experience for every employee with high-quality, in-platform translation for over 140 languages.

Rounding off our administrative updates, you now have the freedom and flexibility to customize your performance cycle email communications to better suit your needs, tone, and preferences. While we do recommend our pre-built templates, this puts the power in your hands to tailor messaging, add more context including hyperlinks, and even revert back to our template if you change your mind.

Start the conversation

Moving from process to performance isn't about a single feature. It's a new way of working in which easy-to-use tools keep you focused on what matters most: your people.

If you’re getting ready for an upcoming performance review cycle, reach out to your Customer Success Manager for guidance. We’ll schedule a planning session that will set you up to succeed with help from our latest updates.

Hear from product leaders in our next webinar

To learn more about these advances, join our upcoming webinar, "From Process to Performance." We’ll start with a fireside chat on the latest HR market trends and talk with our Global Product Director for a look at what’s coming in Perform. Register now to learn where performance management is headed in the future. And if you have questions for our experts, you’ll have an opportunity to ask them live.

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