Having the right structure in place can make all the difference:

A continuous performance management process allows you to:

  • Help employees reach their full potential.
  • Recognize top performers.
  • Enable true internal mobility opportunities.

Also, it allows for employees to:

  • Work towards their short-, mid- and long-term goals.
  • Take ownership of their career paths.
  • Discover new development possibilities.

How are you empowering your teams?

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Follow your workers along their employee journey and discover what you can do (and what you should avoid) to positively transform their performance and set them up for success.

Poor onboarding process

Of those who don’t hit their first performance goals, 50% did not have a formal onboarding process.

- Urbanbound.

Only 12% of employees agree that their company does a good job of onboarding new employees.

- Gallup.

Well-structured onboarding process:

54% of companies with onboarding programs reported higher employee engagement, a key factor in employee productivity.

- SHRM

77% of employees who had a formal onboarding process hit their first performance goals.

- Urbanbound
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Annual goal setting

Only 7% of organizations embed goal revision & management into the flow of work

- SHRM

54% of organizations report their employees only review or revise their goals once per year, if at all.

- Deloitte

Continuous goal setting

Over 50% of companies where goals are reviewed & redefined each month are in the top quar­tile in terms of financial performance.

- Harvard Business Review

High-performing organizations are 4.8 times more likely to set goals quarterly and 3.1 times more likely to update goals at least quarterly than low-performing organizations

- Deloitte

Employees whose managers involve them in goal setting are 3.6 times more likely to be engaged.

- Gallup
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Infrequent or non-existent 1:1 meetings

Employees of managers who don’t have 1:1 meetings are 4 times as likely to be disengaged.

- Harvard Business Review

35% of employees have to wait more than 3 months to get feedback from their manager.

- Officevibe

Ongoing Check Ins

Employees that have regular 1:1 meetings with their managers are likely to be 3x more engaged.

- Urbanbound

96% of employees believe that receiving feedback regularly is a good thing.

- Hygger
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Stunted development possibilities

Only 16% of employees indicate that they have ongoing conversations with their managers about their careers.

- Manpower Group

52% of voluntary exiting employees say their manager or organization could have done something to prevent them from leaving their job.

- Gallup

51% said that in the three months before their departure neither their manager nor any other company leader had reached out to them about their job satisfaction or their future.

- Gallup

Embracing a growth mindset

2/3 of individual performance drivers are tied to career conversations.

- Manpower Group

94% of employees stated that they would stay with a company longer if the company invested in their individual careers.

- LinkedIn

76% of employees believe that if career conversations were more regular, they’d be more likely to look for opportunities for career growth at their current employer.

- Manpower Group
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Unclear feedback and lack of recognition

44% of managers don’t give enough feedback.

- The Predictive Index

While more than 75% of employees believe that feedback is valuable, less than 30% said they receive it.

- PwC

69% of employees say they would work harder if they felt their efforts were better recognized.

- PwC

360° Feedback and Recognition

Nearly 60% of employees would like feedback on a daily or weekly basis, and this number grows to 72% for employees under 30.

- PwC

89% of HR leaders agree that ongoing peer feedback and check-ins have a positive impact on their organizations.

- SHRM

44% of employees surveyed report that when they are provided a simple tool to do so, they will provide peer recognition on an ongoing basis.

- Great Place to Work
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Turn backward-looking annual evaluations into fact-based performance discussions

Less than 50% of all respondents think they are evaluated in a transparent way; with only 47% thinking it’s fair and only 38% believe that how they are evaluated helps them develop.

- Bersin

The average manager spends 210 hours a year on Performance Management related activities, so this once-a-year cycle doesn’t really save time or money.

- Washington Post

Most annual reviews often rely on the memory of managers, which can lead to biased reviews and missed opportunities for growth, making the conversation less productive than it should be.

- Harvard Business Review
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Unclear career opportunities

57% of employees believe that they don’t have any career advancement opportunities. Employees feel like they don’t have enough autonomy, they’re not mastering their skills, and they don’t fully feel a sense of purpose.

- Work Institute

Lack of growth and career development is the number 1 reason why employees quit, with a 170% increase since 2010.

- Work Institute

More than 70% of high-retention-risk employees believe they'll be forced to leave their organization to advance their career.

- LinkedIn

Expanding career opportunities

94% of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn and grow.

- LinkedIn

87% of millennials rate professional career growth and developmental opportunities as important to them in a job.

- Gallup

Internal hiring is 6 times more effective than all other sources of hiring.

- Jobvite
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