Product Overview

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

Performance Evaluation

System-generated text helps 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)
• System generates supporting text based on reviewer’s input
• Automatically prompts reviewer for examples to support ratings
• Language checkers audit for spelling, illegal or inappropriate word choices
• Route reviews and goals for comments and input
• Enable multiple-source feedback with Multi-Rater Module (optional)
• Automatically remind users about upcoming deadlines for reviews, goals, and log entries
• Track tasks with inbox for sending and receiving input requests

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
• Employees can initiate and route reviews, goals, log events and progress notes
• Facilitate 360°-style feedback for employee development with Multi-Rater Module
• Cascading goals show employees how their goals support higher-level objectives

Goal Setting

Strategically link performance objectives at all levels of your organization.

• Set goals that align with organizational objectives
• Create multi-level goal pools for mass goal distribution
• Cascading goals link by organization hierarchy for strategic goal management
• Track and document goal progress

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

Performance Impact Enterprise 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

Create processes aligned with organizational objectives and employ consistent criteria for measuring performance.

• Standardize performance practices throughout your organization
• Strategically link performance objectives on all levels
• Standardize ratings to reduce bias
• Instantly push goals to multiple employees, managers or divisions

Full Flexibility

Customize Performance Impact Enterprise 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 with hierarchical structure
• Maintain central control or enable decentralized control
• Define functional permissions based on employee profiles
• Import employee data from your HRIS
• Achieve automatic data synchronization between Performance Impact and your HRIS (optional)
• Manage compliance by tracking workflow of reviews
• Route performance reviews for approval
• Track changes by user and date with audit log
• Archive reviews, goals and log entries
• Export data and create reports for information analysis