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Performance management software
Use HR appraisal software to align performance with business goals and drive productivity. Set and measure employee objectives, manage appraisals, and facilitate continuous 360-degree feedback to accelerate individual and organisational growth.
Unlock continuous development with performance management software
What does success look like for your organisation? Ensure your people know what they are aiming for and exactly how to get there with targeted, tailored performance management.
Effective performance management allows you to be proactive and leverage your talent to achieve strategic business results. Intuitive self-service performance appraisals software empowers employees to take ownership of opportunities for development and enables managers to support talent progression and continuous improvement in their teams.
The Doctors Laboratory success story
"With the current state of the HR tech space, Access PeopleXD stood out as the outstanding candidate to meet our requirements. It contains all the modules as a fully integrated package that not only simplifies deployment but is also more efficient to maintain."
Matt Gibbons, HR Director, The Doctors Laboratory.
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Key features of our performance management software
Our staff appraisals software is part of our talent management module within our end-to-end HR software suite and can be tailored to suit your unique needs.
Objective setting
Get greater flexibility, with objective setting at an organisational, departmental, job or individual level. Give employees anytime access and real-time notifications whenever they’re updated.
360 reviews
Define questionnaires against a set framework aligned to objectives, and automatically send these to peers to generate reviews on a continuous basis.
Recognition
Provide feedback to anyone in the organisation on an ad hoc basis at any time, and enable this to flow through into your formal appraisal process.
Appraisal tools
Available with configurable appraisal types and via self-service, employees and managers can update in real time and with automated notifications.
Talent profiles
With employee access to rewards and recognition, career preferences, development plans, qualifications, training history and continuous professional development.
Career paths and development plans
View gaps in skills and qualifications and empower employees to create and manage their own development plans.
Succession planning
With valuable dashboards, managers can view their team’s objectives, reviews and competencies and access a dynamic nine box grid, to assess their team’s performance, individual talent profiles and create development plans.
Path to Great mapping
Featuring specialised integration with Access Workspace, the Path to Great performance appraisal software allows managers to track the ongoing development of individuals and teams in terms of both performance and engagement. A valuable visualisation aid to frame conversations during performance reviews.
Analytics
Help HR take an organisational view of employee performance and potential across the business with our HR reporting and analytics tools, providing you with meaningful individual, team and department performance data and insights.
Take a closer look at our performance management software
Performance management is a part of our extensive HR suite
Our HR and payroll software consists of lots of different modules, from recruitment and onboarding to workforce management, pay, performance, learning and development and engagement. Choose the ideal HR solution tailored to your business size to get started.
HR software for small businesses
Access PeopleHR
Designed for businesses with up to 250 employees, including startups.
HR software for medium to large businesses
Access PeopleXD
Designed for businesses with 250 employees or more.
Benefits of a performance management system
- Align employee objectives with wider organisational strategy and goals
- Optimise performance, drive productivity and support business growth
- Get a holistic view of an employee’s total contribution to the organisation
- Assess the risk of talent leaving and make provision for key roles becoming vacant
- Track development at an individual, team, department and organisational level
- Offer progression opportunities and reduce attrition by defining clear career paths
- Foster a culture of feedback and recognition
- Empower employees to take ownership of their performance and development
- Maximise engagement with self-service.
Transform how your business manages performance
Connect performance management software with your HR system
Optimise performance management in your business with end-to-end HR software that integrates all your people management solutions in a centralised platform.
Access PeopleXD has a dedicated talent management module that helps you engage and retain top talent, develop your people and support organisational growth.
Other software solutions within our HR suite include:
- Onboarding – Start every journey the right way, set clear goals from day one and give employees the best chance to perform from the minute they join your organisation
- Workforce management – Achieve greater operational efficiency with a core suite of fully connected workforce management tools
- HR recruitment – Speed up time to hire, from promoting new roles, sourcing talent, managing applications, extending an offer and screening candidates.
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Performance management FAQs
What is performance management and what does it involve?
Performance management is the practice of monitoring, maintaining and improving employee performance. It involves a range of processes and practices including appraisals, goal setting, training and ongoing development to ensure employees are well equipped to achieve individual objectives and understand the part these play in wider business objectives.
What is performance management software?
Performance management software is a suite of tools that supports the monitoring and development of employee performance against organisational goals. It allows HR departments and people managers to keep track of performance development processes such as appraisals and reviews, as well as offering tools to proactively develop and engage employees to support individual and business growth.
Why do businesses need a performance management system?
Businesses need a performance management system to monitor and record performance of employees, teams and departments against business goals. Using a performance management system, employers can optimise performance, drive productivity and support business growth.
What businesses use appraisal software?
Appraisal software benefits a wide range of businesses. From large corporations with big HR teams, to smaller businesses, all companies need to use performance management software to optimise how they conduct appraisals with their employees.
What is the difference between performance appraisal and performance management?
Performance appraisal is a process that evaluates an employee’s performance against set criteria over a specific time period. Performance management is different because it is an ongoing process, taking into account previous performance and offering tools and strategies to continually improve.
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Our HR and payroll software solutions are designed to support every aspect of your people strategy from recruitment and onboarding right through to training, talent management, payment and reward.
Speak to one of our experts to find out how our solutions can unite, integrate and optimise your people processes and maximise success.