How to Do Agile Performance Appraisals With AssessTeam
We live in a volatile and rapidly changing commercial climate. Modern organizations, (big and small), must be agile as they strive to deliver their business strategies in an environment that is in a constant state of flux.
Agile organizations depend on agile teams, who can quickly adapt to new business challenges and goals and maintain high performance in changing circumstances. Agile teams can only be developed and maintained using a sustainable agile performance process.
For an agile performance management process to be sustainable it needs to be efficient, cost-effective and performance enhancing.
There is no doubt that the only way to achieve truly sustainable, agile performance management is using an agile performance appraisal software tools such as AssessTEAM, which comes with high levels of automation.
Agile performance management requires several features
- Augmented goal and KPI setting
- Continuous or real-time feedback
- 360 degree feedback
- Web or Mobile Delivery
- Advanced employee self-service
- Automated work-flow management
Augmented Goal Setting and Tracking
AssessTEAM comes with a library of more than 3,000 goals and over 40,000 performance indicators which are auto-coded to a library of in-built job titles, meaning that AssessTEAM can auto-assign goals to employees. (Goals can be manually customized too). This augmented/automated goal setting process saves time and effort and is one of they features underpinning agile performance management in AssessTEAM.
Agile 360 Degree Feedback
You can quickly configure AssessTEAM to provide highly automated 360 degree feedback, without the massive administrative burden of doing it manually. This means that you can deliver agile, 360-degree feedback on a continuous basis with minimal management effort. Just spend a few moments upfront configuring AssessTEAM to enable it to automate the 360-degree process. This involves firstly assigning one, (or more for 360 degree feedback), ‘evaluators’ to each of your employees to be rated, along with the ‘result areas’ that you want the ‘evaluators’ to rate them on. There are economy-of-scale type time-saving features available too, such as being able to assign an evaluator to a group of employees with the same job-title in one go.
Continuous or real-time 360 degree feedback
Once this process is done, you can begin inputting the ‘evaluation period’ in question, indicating the ‘frequency’ of evaluations, (which can be ‘weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly’), and indicating a ‘trigger date’. The system will now automatically notify and chase evaluators to complete appraisals at appropriate frequencies until the evaluations have become completed. It is this feature that really enables AssessTEAM to deliver agile performance appraisals on a continuous and responsive basis.
Web or Mobile Delivery
Agile performance management systems must allow agile, global, co-located teams to access them from any location on any PC, mobile device and operating system at any time of the day. AssessTEAM achieves this firstly by being cloud based by default and accessible to anyone with a web browser and internet connection. It also includes an Employee Evaluation App, available on both Android and iOS, which gives staff on-the-go access to personal goals and KPIs, job performance reports, and time sheets. Employees receive push notifications reminding them to complete evaluations and they can give and receive staff feedback efficiently through their smartphone. AssessTEAM’s powerful mobile app allows modern teams to deliver truly agile performance management.
Advanced employee and manager self-service
AssessTEAM’s advanced employee and manager self-service functionality means that employees and managers can pretty much manage their own and their team’s, entire performance management process in line with business and HR strategy but without the day to day involvement of HR
Automated and Augmented Work-flow management
AssessTEAM comes with inbuilt functionality that drives work and activity through the system. From the outset employees can be automatically assigned a full set of goals and KPIs based on their job title, and managers and employees are automatically prompted and chased to complete scheduled evaluations. The AssessTEAM agile performance management system can operate in an end-to-end, semi-automated fashion allowing agile performance management to be delivered at scale in a commercially sustainable manner.
These 6 features of AssessTEAM allow you to do sustainable agile performance management within your business, making it a perfect performance management system for the modern age.
