12 smart performance management tools to level up your team

Personio streamlines every performance management process across the employee lifecycle – improving the way you assess, manage and elevate employee performance. The platform acts as a single source of truth for employee data, making it easy to monitor employee progress. 

Customisable review cycles and goal management features enable managers to set and track employee progress towards clear objectives. Feedback templates make it easy to gather continuous insights from your employees, while the training management tool helps you set up development programmes that improve team performance at scale. 

Additionally, Personio's automated workflows reduce manual tasks and make sure reviews and feedback are always on time. And its intuitive user design ensures ease of use, promoting higher engagement and adoption across all levels of the organisation.

• Customisable review cycles: Personio offers tailored performance review cycles to meet the specific needs of any organisation.

• Streamlined performance management: Automated workflows streamline everything from analysing performance data to reminding you of upcoming review cycles.

• Goal tracking: Goal setting and progress tracking helps you align individual objectives with company targets.

• Employee development tools: Set up training and monitor employee attendance and progress to ensure professional growth aligns with performance expectations.

• Performance analytics: Improve employee performance with access to powerful analytics and insights.

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Zavvy is a talent management platform that uses AI-enhanced automation to streamline performance management. It comes with features like customisable performance review templates, feedback systems and check-in tools that provide a comprehensive understanding of employee performance. 

Zavvy also helps gather employee feedback from multiple parties to support managers in identifying employee strengths and challenges. However, it may take time to learn how to make the most of Zavvy’s extensive features and AI-powered tools, so expect a potential learning curve for some.

• AI-powered automation: The platform uses AI to streamline and automate key performance management tasks.

• Holistic feedback: The 360-degree feedback system draws employee performance feedback from multiple people, and goals management tools help you monitor team performance.

• Career planning tools: The tool comes with customisable career development plan templates.

15Five is a specialist performance and talent management solution. It comes with features like competency reviews, multi-dimensional performance reviews and employee development pathways. 15Five’s features make it easy to create and implement custom review cycles – with the ability to gather employee feedback from several sources. 

15Five also has specialised tools designed to measure manager effectiveness, so you can assess and improve your leadership team. But like Zavvy, 15Five is a specialist solution, meaning you’ll have to adopt other software to build out a complete HR tech stack. 

• AI performance insights: 15Five uses AI algorithms to minimise bias and identify employee strengths.

• Manager effectiveness tools: The platform provides specialised metrics and assessments to evaluate and enhance leadership skills.

• Performance reports: Robust reporting helps you visualise employee strengths and track their progress.

Lattice focuses on continuous feedback, goal setting and employee development. The platform makes sharing feedback more accessible by integrating with popular team communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. 

Lattice also keeps track of past feedback. The context panel in the performance reviews tool shows historical feedback during review cycles, providing important context that leads to fairer and faster review processes.

The system also tracks development activities, which can be tied to performance goals. Just note that some G2 users feel the platform lacks certain features and functionalities. 

• Effective reviews: Run customisable review cycles, powered by templates, workflows and dashboards.

• Goal tracking: Link goals into the performance management process. Employees can track and align progress with development activities. 

• Analytics and reporting: Advanced analytics and customisable reporting measure employee performance.

BambooHR helps teams deliver simplified performance reviews, 360-degree feedback and goal tracking. You can gather focused feedback with predetermined questions or create and schedule custom review cycles.

And the Employee Performance Report provides insights into the performance of individual employees over selected periods. While BambooHR has good performance tools, some G2 users note that it lacks customisation options, so you might not be able to personalise the tool to your specific needs. 

• Built-in reporting: Gain a clear, high-level view of historical employee and team performance trends with Employee Performance Reports. 

• Simplified evaluations: Streamlined review processes for actionable and consistent feedback. 

• Goals alignment: Create individual or shared goals and monitor via goal tracking and align with management or team goals

The people enablement platform Leapsome comes with a performance toolkit that includes goal setting, automated review cycles, centralised performance dashboards and customisable performance review templates.

Leapsome integrates employee development directly with performance management through features like continuous feedback loops, learning modules tied to performance objectives and development plans that align with company goals. The platform’s Skills Profile feature lets you define team-specific skills and track performance against them. 

But like BambooHR, some G2 users note that customisation options within the tool are limited, for example with reminders, review templates, goal setting and colour themes. 

• Review templates: Leapsome simplifies the process of giving and providing feedback with out-of-the-box templates and frameworks or the option to customise. 

• Multiple review types: Choose from 360-degree reviews, regular performance reviews and anonymised leadership reviews. 

• Talent development: Personalised learning paths connect to performance goals.

PerformYard has features to help run a range of performance management processes, including individual competency-based appraisals, new hire assessments and project-based reviews.

You can handle performance tasks and view data on PerformYard’s centralised dashboard. And the platform’s reporting and analytics create a holistic view of current and historical performance. You can cross-reference data across categories, track employee competencies and progress towards goals, compare team members and identify performance trends.

But since PerformYard is a highly specialised tool, you’ll need to purchase other software to build out a complete HR tech stack that can cover other processes like payroll, hiring, time tracking and more.

• Advanced reporting: The tool provides comprehensive insights into employee performance trends and metrics.

• Goal management: Visual goal tracking is tied to KPIs . 

• Performance review customisation: The platform offers versatile and customisable review types for multiple scenarios.

Trakstar lets you customise performance reviews for teams or individual employees and incorporate relevant goals and competencies to ensure evaluations align with specific roles. 

Automated reminders and email notifications keep the review process on track, while 360-degree feedback and real-time performance updates provide direction for appraisals.

The platform lets you set and track SMART goals for your employees with goal templates you can align to your organisation’s goals. You can even cascade these goals and break them down into specific individual and team objectives.  

• Goal tracking: Set and track SMART goals using out-of-the-box templates. 

• 360-degree reviews: Gather employee feedback and rate manager bias. 

• Automatic approvals: Run a more efficient performance management process with automated notifications and approvals.

Primalogik comes with features like customisable questionnaires, rating scales and feedback templates. The platform lets you provide feedback in real time so you can identify improvement areas immediately. 

Additionally, anonymity settings help employees and managers provide honest feedback by ensuring confidentiality. 

• Customisable assessments: You get flexible options for evaluating employee performance, including 360-degree feedback. 

• Reporting: The tool comes with features for analysing performance and comparing staff. 

• Goal alignment: Align individual and team performance goals directly within the feedback and evaluation processes.

eloomi is a learning and development platform that helps you focus on performance and training for your team. 

Managers can easily schedule evaluations, set objectives and follow up on progress using suggested talking points and action items. The platform also facilitates real-time tracking of employee achievements and development areas for a focused approach to performance improvement and talent development.

While many organisations rely on eloomi for performance management, it’s primarily a learning and development tool. 

• Power up one-on-ones: Choose between out-of-the-box and customisable plans for employee check-ins.

• Easy to review goals: You get 360-degree feedback tools and goal tracking with structured feedback for employees.

• Development journeys: Personalised development paths are linked to performance appraisals.

Peoplebox provides a unified dashboard for tracking OKRs and performance metrics side-by-side. 

The goals alignment feature helps align individual objectives with team and organisational OKRs. When teams or individuals make progress towards a goal, this is automatically reflected in performance reviews.

Just note that like many of the other platforms on this list, Peoplebox is targeted specifically towards managing performance and tracking employee progress. So while it’s fit for this use case, you’ll need to use other software as well for a complete HR tech stack. 

• Track key objectives: Centralised OKR management helps you track employee progress.

• Bespoke reviews: You can access customisable performance cycles and performance appraisal templates.

• Streamlined scheduling: Auto-scheduled one-on-ones between managers and employees minimise manual tasks.

WorkDove links employee performance with broader organisational objectives. The platform's Performance Values Matrix feature visually maps employee performance against the company’s core targets and values, which is useful for recognising employees who excel in their tasks and embody the organisation's values.

And WorkDove’s 9-box software categorises employees across a grid based on assigned metrics, offering a strategic overview of talent distribution and performance across teams. 

The platform also helps you track review cycles, monitor ongoing performance and collect 360-degree feedback. Just note that the platform is very focused on performance and doesn’t support other HR tasks like compensation and absence management. 

• Employee-driven check-ins: Employees own their development with automated, employee-driven one-on-ones to manage performance.

• Performance alignment: The Performance Values Matrix and 9-box features help you visualise employee performance against targets and company values.

• Feedback and recognition: Real-time feedback and peer recognition facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.

For smooth adoption, the ideal performance management tool should be easy to use and provide clear value to managers. This is key to ensuring swift return on investment and consistent use.

Along with enabling faster adoption, the right tool should ultimately make your performance management process simpler, quicker and more accurate – helping managers allocate more time to other key responsibilities. With this in mind, here are some additional features to look out for when choosing a tool: 

1. Goal setting and tracking, which enables setting clear, measurable objectives and tracking progress towards them

2. Performance appraisal, which supports comprehensive review processes, including self-assessments and manager evaluations

3. Continuous feedback mechanisms, which facilitates regular, real-time feedback to support ongoing development

4. Customisable templates, which offers the flexibility to create or modify review templates to fit the organisation’s needs

5. 360-degree feedback, which allows gathering input from peers, subordinates and supervisors for a holistic view of performance

6. Single source of truth for employee data, which helps centralise all employee information and performance data, remove data silos and ensure accuracy and consistency across the organisation

7. Reporting and analytics, which provide insightful analytics on individual and team performance to inform decision-making

Personio stands out for its robust performance management features, which include goal management, 360-degree feedback, performance reviews and development tracking. Personio is also known for its user-friendly interface and adaptability to various organisational needs. 

But Personio’s more than just a performance management platform. Its other HR features like absence and compensation management, applicant sourcing and tracking, onboarding and offboarding, employee training and preliminary payroll mean you get a tool that supports a range of crucial HR processes. 

If you’re looking for a partner who can enhance your performance management processes, streamline tasks and support employee growth, book a free demo to see Personio in action. 

Or, if you’ve got any questions, please get in touch. We’re happy to discuss how our solution can help solve your unique challenges.

Improve your performance management process with Personio

Gather feedback, automate review cycles and track important metrics in one centralised platform.

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