Performance Management Tools Examples

Performance management tools examples get bundled together as though they were interchangeable. They do different jobs.

• Goal and objective tracking. Records what someone is working toward and whether it moved. Useful where priorities drift.
• Review and appraisal forms. Structures a periodic conversation and creates a record of it.
• Check-in and one to one logs. Captures the frequent short conversations that do most of the actual work.
• 360 feedback. Developmental input from people around the person.
• Improvement plans. A formal, time-bound process where performance is below requirement.
• Position descriptions. The baseline everything else is measured against.

Most organisations buy the review form first. The check-in log usually changes more, because it is the part managers currently carry in their heads and forget by the time the review comes round.

The Fair Work Commission covers performance processes. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s performance management system and position description software.