PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS
Find your performance management fit.
When it comes to performance management, one size does not fit all. Our Performance Pathways—designed by our People Insights Team—offer ready-made, customizable frameworks to help you hit the ground running on your performance management program.
We’re missing the mark on performance management.
Traditional performance management practices don’t engage employees—and they certainly don’t help them do their best work.
Our research shows that 75% of employees saw changes to their organization’s performance management processes in the last year…
…and yet we’re still not quite hitting the mark. Less than half of employees say their organization’s current performance management process is:
- An effective use of their time
- Easy and efficient to navigate
- Motivating enough to improve performance
Build your performance management program with proven Performance Pathways.
Our Performance Pathways offer ready-made, customizable frameworks to help you hit the ground running on your next performance management evolution.
Move from chaos to clarity.
Simplify the complex with a clear, structured approach.
Customize to fit your needs.
Tailor to fit the unique needs of your organization and teams.
Implement with ease.
Start where you are, driving incremental change for minimal disruption.
Put your managers in the driver’s seat.
Empower your managers for effective coaching and decision making.
Engage and retain your employees.
Align, motivate, engage, and retain top performers.
Rest easy in our expertise.
Don’t start from scratch—rely on our proven frameworks.
Performance Evaluation
Performance Development
Performance Coaching
Collaborative Performance Coaching
Continuous Performance Coaching
Performance Evaluation
This pathway helps standardize your approach to performance evaluation by focusing on structured performance reviews. It involves formal review cycles launched by HR to align employee performance with organizational goals.
Best for Organizations That:
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Experience little or slow change
- Desire structured feedback, ratings to inform talent decisions, and performance accountability
- Need a systematic starting point to evaluate and guide performance
Performance Development
This pathway offers a structured framework for fostering employee growth and skill enhancement. It helps managers support employees at various stages of their career journeys, ensuring they receive targeted development opportunities.
Best for Organizations That:
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Invest in employee engagement
- Experience unwanted turnover due to perceived lack of growth and development
- Are growing quickly, with increasing development, promotion, or project opportunities
Performance Coaching
This pathway empowers managers as agents of employee success through frequent, meaningful conversations that extend beyond performance reviews. This approach fosters a high-trust environment with robust feedback, development opportunities, and recognition.
Best for Organizations That:
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Are fast-paced or undergoing rapid change (M&As, startups)
- Have remote or hybrid work models
- Have people-centric cultures
- Invest in manager effectiveness, holding people leaders accountable for engagement and performance
Collaborative Performance Coaching
This pathway leverages a systematic approach to employee feedback, closely tying performance management to business outcomes and career progression. This model is ideal for data-oriented organizations, matrixed environments, and those with structured hierarchies, ensuring alignment between employee contributions and strategic goals.
Best for Organizations That:
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Use data for workforce management (vs talent development)
- Are matrixed, where manager is reliant on other feedback sources
- Deploy mentors or coaches to handle performance, development, and career coaching
- Have highly structured role levels or hierarchies that may create obstacles for talent growth
- Use business performance to influence most workforce/talent decisions
Continuous Performance Coaching
This pathway drives high-performing teams through alignment, frequent goal updates, and ongoing performance conversations. This approach is best suited for organizations prepared for a more continuous performance management approach.
Best for Organizations That:
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Are fast-paced and focused on innovation
- Are rapidly growing
- Have dynamic, agile roles
- Are prepared for a continuous approach to performance
See our performance management software in action.
You’ve got what you need to build your performance management program. See it come to life with a tailored demo of Quantum Workplace today!
