Performance Impact Workplace transforms employee review writing into an effective, year-round performance management solution

Performance Impact Workplace

Managing Performance

Performance Impact Workplace guides managers through a year-round cycle of effective performance management. Intuitive navigation walks users step-by-step through every process.

Performance Evaluation

Help managers get past the hurdle of the blank page to articulate feedback clearly and effectively.

Choose from 55 behaviorally-based competencies
Add industry-specific competencies (optional)
Automatically generates supporting text based on reviewer’s input
Automatically prompts reviewer for examples to support ratings
Audit for spelling, illegal or inappropriate word choices using proprietary Language Checker™
Automatically remind users about upcoming deadlines for reviews, goals and log entries
Track tasks with Reminders task list

Employee Participation

Boost retention by involving employees in the performance management process.

Enable joint employee/manager review process with employee self-review
Give employees the same tools managers use

Goal Setting

Drive employee performance by setting, tracking, and measuring goals.

Set goals that support employee growth
Copy goals to multiple employees
Track and document goal progress
Copy goals directly into performance reviews

Coaching and Development

Maximize employee potential and encourage manager-employee communication.

Access more than 2,000 competency-specific coaching ideas
Select from ideas for challenging high achievers and ideas for improving poor performance
Build effective development plans
Document performance milestones and issues with an employee log
Encourage regular feedback with discussion notes
Copy log events and progress notes directly to reviews

Building the Process

Performance Impact Workplace is designed for maximum flexibility, so you can incorporate and enhance the best parts of your existing performance management practices – or build a new system from the ground up.

Framework for Consistency

Employ consistent criteria for measuring performance.

Standardize performance practices throughout your organization
Standardize ratings to reduce bias
Instantly push goals to multiple employees

Full Flexibility

Customize Performance Impact Workplace to your organization’s specific needs and culture.

Match language and terminology used in your organization
Create custom competencies and review text
Custom-build review forms for individual positions or entire employee groups
Add optional industry-specific competencies
Incorporate text and/or numeric ratings for 2-6 levels
Assign relative weights to competencies and goals
Add or edit coaching ideas and development suggestions

Administration & Integration

Ensure your performance management system works the way you want it to.

Enable multiple levels of security using customizable permission profiles
Define functional permissions based on employee profiles
Import employee data from your HRIS
Manage compliance by tracking workflow of reviews
Track changes by user and date with audit log
Archive data for inactive employees
Create reports for issue tracking and analysis
Export data for additional information analysis

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System Requirements:

Processor Type/Speed: Minimum: Pentium 600 MHz, Recommended: Pentium 4 1 GHz

RAM: Minimum: 128 MB, Recommended: 256 MB

Free Disk Space: 101 MB

Software:

2000 Pro with Service Pack 3

XP Pro with Service Pack 1

XP Home with Service Pack 1

Windows 98 Second Edition has limited support

The following servers, databases, and related components are supported:

Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 6a

Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 3

Windows 2000 Standard Server with Service Pack 3

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

SQL Server 7 with Service Pack 4

SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 2 or 3

MSDE 2000

MDAC 2.7

The following versions of Internet Explorer are required for Performance Impact Workplace:
5.5 or higher (6.0 recommended)

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