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PERFORMANCE REVIEW SOFTWARE
Spark engaging performance reviews you and your teams can trust.
Performance reviews have the potential to drive meaningful action and growth. Reignite your belief in reviews by elevating truth, empowering managers, and engaging employees with connected performance conversations.
PERFORMANCE REVIEW TOOLS
Make reviews more accurate, easy, and actionable for everyone.
Performance conversations don’t need to be hard. Give your teams reliable context to help them spend more time focused on engagement and growth—rather than preparation or training.
Customize reviews to fit your exact needs.
When it comes to review conversations, one size does not fit all. Easily measure what you want, when you want with flexible review modules that you can tailor to fit your needs. Use one template across your entire organization or build multiple to meet the needs of various groups.
- Goal ratings: Embed performance goals and ratings into reviews
- Competencies: Include your unique competencies and skills
- Weighting: Choose how to weight each module in your review
- Scales: Select the alpha or numeric scale that works best
- Questions: Add other custom questions to your template
Recall past performance with a single click.
✨Ask AI enables your managers and employees to reference past performance and conversation data directly within their reviews. Help your teams avoid recency bias and provide powerful examples to make reviews more accurate.
Managers and employees can leverage context from 1-on-1s, goals, recognition, and feedback. As your teams engage in performance activities throughout the year, they’ll benefit from more rich and robust context, ultimately creating more holistic and engaging review conversations.
Empower managers to deliver consistently meaningful feedback.
Managers notoriously hate writing reviews, and HR lives in constant fear of what they might say. Our ✨AI-assisted workflows flip the status quo on its head and make writing clear, succinct, and constructive feedback easy.
- ✨Writing Assistant: improve the clarity, brevity, and tone of feedback at each step of the review writing process
- ✨Summary Assistant: pull all feedback together to create an actionable plan for employees to learn and grow
Embed performance goals directly into review conversations.
Managers and employees need credible context for effective and objective performance reviews. Our platform makes it easy to include goals as part of performance evaluations—and helps coach managers to have critical, growth-oriented conversations.
Leverage 360s and multi-rater feedback for greater objectivity.
Incorporate feedback into your review cycles to gain valuable insight from the individuals your people work with most, and better orient your performance conversations around development.
Visualize and align on performance data across teams.
Get a comprehensive view of your organization’s talent with our talent dashboard. Zoom out and see the big picture, to help you make more informed decisions on how to keep and develop your best talent.
Easily track response rates and other review analytics.
You need to make sure the habits you build stick. Easily track the status of each review cycle to help your teams stay accountable and monitor performance ratings in real-time. Robust administration tools let you adjust active cycles as needed.
Find out why customers love Quantum Workplace
“Quantum Workplace has given us the means to measure what we have not previously been able to measure formally: how focused our teams are on regular formal communication, goal setting, and consistent recognition. Without a doubt, Quantum Workplace has been a critical benefit to enhancing the employee experience at Scooter’s Coffee.”
Patty Nash
Employee Experience Advisor
at Scooter's Coffee
Performance Review Software FAQs
What is a performance review?
A performance review is a formal evaluation of an employee's performance, skills, and accomplishments in their job. While reviews serve as an opportunity for managers and employees to discuss performance, set goals, provide feedback, and recognize accomplishments, the current state of performance reviews has faced numerous challenges. A modern performance review should be a two-way, individualized conversation between a manager and an employee about performance impact, development, and growth. It is a critical component of an organization’s overall performance management strategy. How an organization navigates performance review conversations has a demonstrated impact on employee engagement and retention.
Why should we care about performance reviews?
Performance reviews are helpful for understanding progress and areas of improvement for each employee. They help employees see where they're doing great, where they can get better, and what they should aim for next. If wielded well, performance reviews can be a secret weapon in retaining top performers. They serve as a perfect opportunity to summarize an employee's progress, recognize contributions, and develop a growth plan that is aligned with your organization's vision and key objectives.
What should I look for in performance review software?
When selecting performance review software, it’s crucial to consider features that align with your organization’s culture, simplify the evaluation process, and enhance the objectivity of feedback. Here’s what you should look for:
- Customizability: Look for flexible performance review templates and scheduling that can be tailored to various performance management cycles and organizational needs. This includes the ability to adapt features such as goal ratings, competencies, weighting, scales, and custom performance review questions to fit your specific requirements. A platform that allows for different templates across various groups within your organization ensures that the reviews are relevant and resonate with all departments.
- Simplicity and Usability: Look for a platform that is easy to use for both HR administrators and end users, including managers and employees. The interface should be intuitive, reducing the administrative burden and making it easier to conduct your performance review process. Features like automated workflows, clear tracking of review statuses, and straightforward analytics help keep everyone accountable and informed throughout the review process.
Additionally, consider how the software facilitates effective performance conversations and performance review best practices:
- Embedded Analytics and Data: Effective performance review software should provide leaders with analytics that help them analyze and act on key performance insights. This includes tracking response rates, review completion statuses, and comprehensive performance data which should be easily accessible and interpretable to inform decisions.
- Support for Objective Feedback: The software should support mechanisms that promote objectivity in reviews, such as 360-degree feedback and multi-rater reviews. These features help gather diverse perspectives and reduce biases, making the feedback more comprehensive and valuable.
By focusing on these aspects, you can choose performance review software that not only fits your organizational culture but also enhances the effectiveness and fairness of your performance evaluations.
What makes Quantum Workplace’s performance review software different?
Administering effective and objective performance reviews across your entire organization requires a partner you can rely on. For the last 20+ years, our customers have trusted us to deliver reliable expertise, technology, service and results.
We help you uncover meaning.
Understand what's truly driving or hindering employee performance, engagement, and retention. Keep your people on the same page with formal performance reviews using our validated best practices.
We make action easy for everyone.
Performance reviews need to be easy for everyone. Our solutions help reduce headaches for HR, integrate into manager workflows, and encourage employee involvement.
We’re a partner you can rely on.
You’re on a journey – and we’re with you every step of the way. You can rely on our dedicated team to provide strategic guidance, ongoing coaching, timely tech support, and safe and secure practices your programs need to be successful.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Every tool you need to inspire employee impact and performance.
Recognition
Motivate employees and celebrate success with real-time recognition. Easily share stories of success across your organization.
Feedback
Boost employee performance, growth, and development with 360, peer, upward feedback, and more. Support a culture of continuous feedback.
Goals
Move teams forward with clear and aligned goals that drive results. Set, track, and accomplish important goals.
1-on-1s
Empower meaningful conversations at every level, across any department. Increase communication, clarity, and engagement.
Talent Reviews
Objectively assess performance to identify rising stars and talent risks. Make strategic talent decisions.
Succession Planning
Proactively identify gaps and create development plans to prepare for the future. Ensure the right successors are identified and developed.
Empower your managers and teams to drive impact.
Explore Quantum Workplace’s performance management platform today.