Performance Management Module

The purpose of the following article is to provide a detailed explanation of the features and scope of the Performance Management module. From continuous talent management with tools such as Objectives, Feedback and action plans, to the generation of performance evaluations.

Definitions: 

• Objectives:
  Specific and measurable goals that an employee strives to achieve within their job role. These objectives are usually aligned with the organization's broader goals and are set to improve performance, drive professional growth and contribute to the overall success of the team or company.
• Competencies:
  A competency is a skill, knowledge or ability that an employee must possess to perform their job effectively.
• Performance evaluation:
  Performance evaluations are systematic processes that organizations use to measure, assess and analyze their employees' job performance. These evaluations are typically carried out periodically, generally annually or semiannually, although they may vary according to company policies.
• Feedback:
  Feedback that employees receive about their job performance, behavior, skills and contributions in the workplace. The purpose of feedback is to provide constructive information that helps the employee understand their strengths, areas for improvement and role expectations, in order to promote professional growth and optimal performance.
• N-box:
  The N-box is an essential tool in talent management that allows visualizing and assessing employees' talent in an organization using variables such as performance and potential. Graphically represented through a set of quadrants, each axis of the N-box reflects a key evaluation dimension.
  Its main purpose is to enable leaders and HR managers to make informed decisions regarding talent development and management within the company. By placing employees in different quadrants according to these variables, you obtain a clear view of their current contribution and their growth potential.
• Action plans:
  Action plans are used to address specific situations, improve performance, resolve problems or achieve objectives within the organization. These plans focus on concrete actions that must be carried out to improve the individual performance of employees. They can address a wide range of areas, such as professional development, training, conflict resolution, communication improvement, workplace safety, work quality, among other aspects relevant to the effective operation of the company.

Platform features:

Objectives:Assign objectives and track them

• Specify to your employees what goal they must reach and assign specific weights to each of them according to their importance, to prioritize them appropriately. In addition, organize objectives into categories by type.
• Define who will be responsible for entering the objectives, allowing the administrator to enter them individually or in bulk, the direct supervisor to register them, or even the employees themselves to enter them.
• Track objectives by percentage of completion, which you can incorporate into the performance evaluation. This way you can monitor progress and fulfillment of the established objectives.
• Allow employees to propose their own objectives and track them, as well as review their history directly in their personal profile. This will encourage their active participation in the process and give them greater control over their professional development.
• In addition to continuously tracking employees' objectives, you also have the option to integrate them into performance evaluations.

Competencies: Establish the competencies that employees must possess to perform their role

• Assign the competencies required for each employee role, being able to assign them to specific positions or to job families.
• Develop your own competency dictionary, where you can establish both cross-cutting competencies applicable to all employees and specific competencies for certain positions or job families.
• Define competencies based on indicators that reflect the level of mastery or performance of each employee. For this, you can use the behavioral indicators methodology or development levels, allowing you to evaluate the same competency with different indicators according to the level of the associated role.
• Incorporate competency assessment into the performance evaluation process by assigning a specific weight to each competency to determine the employee's final rating.

Performance evaluations:

• Carry out customized evaluations where you can include stages of:
  Verification:
  You can add a verification phase that will precede the evaluation; you must assign a verifier to the participants who must check whether the assignment of evaluators is correct. If it is not, verifiers can propose new evaluators who must be approved by the administrator.
  Validation:
  Add validation to downward evaluations; you can assign validators to approve completed evaluations. Once evaluators have completed the corresponding downward evaluations, validators must approve them for them to be finalized. If a validator rejects them, the downward evaluator must adjust their scores for the validator to review them again.
  Calibration:
  In this stage you can review participants' scores and make modifications to the downward evaluations' forms. You will only be able to calibrate downward evaluations.
  Feedback:
  During the Feedback stage, the downward evaluator is responsible for delivering feedback comments to their employees. The downward evaluator can review the evaluated person's score report before leaving comments. Once feedback is sent, the evaluated person will be notified and can review the feedback directly in their profile. In addition, the evaluated person will have the option to indicate whether they are "Satisfied" or "Not satisfied" with the feedback received, and can also leave their own comments. The evaluator can choose whether to rely on Artificial Intelligence to generate the feedback.
  Appeal:
  This option will only be available if the Feedback stage was selected. Once the employee receives the Feedback, they will have the possibility to appeal their score if they marked "Not satisfied". The administrator can review the case and make modifications only in the downward evaluation, if necessary.
  
  
• You can configure sequential evaluations, defining the order in which different types of evaluations will take place.
• Define how to measure performance and perform evaluations by choosing which types to incorporate: Downward evaluation, Self-evaluation, Upward evaluation, Peer evaluation.
• Define the items to be evaluated, such as objectives and competencies, and the number of evaluators for each of them and their weightings in the final result.
• Build your own evaluation instrument by selecting the variables and weights you require. You can create differentiated forms, either by evaluation type and/or job families.
• Obtain quantitative and qualitative information by evaluating competencies, objectives and/or potential-type questions and adding open-ended questions and/or comments.
• Customize the result scale; you can differentiate the scales to evaluate competencies, objectives and potential questions. Choose whether you need to view results as percentages or numeric scores.
• Maintain control by monitoring the progress of the evaluation in its different stages.
• Ensure deadline compliance by sending reminders to employees
• Self-manage modifications during the evaluation and continuously download reporting.
• You can obtain your results instantly and, once the evaluation is finished, you will have a global view of performance through the overall reporting with results by organizational levels. You can analyze them with charts.
• Publish the score reports in employees' profiles, where they can review the scores for each indicator, by evaluation type, the scores for competencies and/or objectives, the final score and the information from comments and open-ended questions. The employee can appeal or indicate whether they are "Satisfied" with the process report.
• Download overall and individual reports.
• Use custom exporters to download the information you need.

Continuous feedback:

• Promote the continuous improvement of employees by delivering feedback throughout the year.
• Leaders have the possibility to deliver feedback comments directly through the module.
• Employees are notified by email when they receive feedback and can review it immediately in their Logbook.
• In addition, feedback can be linked to an action plan to facilitate follow-up.
• Access reports on the platform and download custom reports for review.

Action plans:

• Assign action plans to employees to drive continuous improvement and individual development. You will have the option to enter action plans individually or in bulk.
• Supervisors can assign and follow up on their employees' action plans whenever they want, updating the status and percentage of completion
• Employees can review the action plans assigned in their profile; however, they will not be able to create or update action plans.
• Action plans can be associated with various processes carried out on the platform, such as performance evaluations, feedback comments and climate surveys, to provide additional context and facilitate management.

N-box:

• Create and customize N-boxes according to your specific needs from the Development module. This will allow you to make strategic, data-driven decisions and carry out a more effective and efficient talent management process.
• You can generate these N-boxes both from evaluations carried out in Buk, where potential-type questions are evaluated, and from external evaluations, where you must upload the information. You have the flexibility to configure them according to your preferences and choose the number of quadrants you want in your N-box
• In addition, you have the ability to perform calibrations based on employees' scores to place them in the appropriate quadrant.
  

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