Monday, 5 September 2016

Autumn reflections - and goodbye annual appraisals!

As we are now officially in ‘Autumn’ it’s time to start reflecting. The first few months of the year go by so fast – so may projects on the go at once. Now it’s time to take stock and see what progress has been made before the final push of project completions by the end of the calendar year.
The first few months of the year were really hectic, with the launch of our new performance management software – signalling a big change from our once a year paper-based appraisal system to a more fluid, web-based system that strengthens monthly one to ones and has no annual scoring. Launched in April, early indications were that this was received well, reassuring after our extensive piloting. Now we’ve had time to survey users we’re about to make our first significant tweaks, luckily these are easy to make. The full benefit of reporting instantly on training needs, objectives (at team level for managers) and at a global level for us in HR are yet to be fully realised and promoted – but it is this that I am most excited about.

To coincide with this launch, we also pushed through new employee behaviours (3 tiers, employee, manager and executive) after a comprehensive consultation round. This meant the first few weeks of the year felt very frantic, and there is always more to do in terms of embedding, but I’ll say more about that over the coming weeks.


(Our new performance management software is called Appraisd for those that want to look it up! We’re really happy with it, and the customer service we’ve had has been amazing.)

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