The next generation of performance management with Our Tandem

Performance management sits at the heart of driving the direction of the experience of our people. Our Tandem delivers a toolkit to develop your people break down barriers and helps you to deliver a rich and meaningful HR solution.

• Employees’ relationship with performance management has deviated from the potential it can offer.
• 7 out of 10 employees believe good feedback can be more effective for their development than other training or learning courses.
• 74% of employees believe feedback that gives directions to improve, is more valuable than praise.

Finding the way back to the true meaning of Performance Management

Performance management was originally created and defined to accelerate the performance of the organization. Until about four years ago, the practice of performance management had lost its original purpose and was largely burdened with the bureaucracy of timelines, OKR’s, ratings, and annual appraisal processes, all linked to a complicated means of defining the compensatory outcome of an individual.

Employees had begun to see performance management as an unfair and untrusted means related to pay decisions. This has deviated from the potential that performance management could offer as a way to aid individual growth and development, wellbeing, and a means to build a trusting, authentic relationship with managers and colleagues.

The practice of continuous real-time feedback has made waves in navigating back to Performance Management’s original purpose. And, it’s clear that the last 12 months or so have accelerated these practices beyond original recognition.

Continuous Performance Management (CPM) with Our Tandem

In contrast to the traditional performance management framework based on annual appraisals, continuous performance management is more of a holistic process. For example, feedback is given ‘continuously’ (hence the name) and this interaction becomes normalized and natural between manager and employee, rather than something to dread and lose sleep over.

We are really bringing continuous performance management into the mainstream of people’s day to day. They’re no longer seeing it as just an HR process, but they’re actually understanding how it benefits them or their teams.

Maeve MacEnri, Director of Human Resources, KBC Bank​

Our Tandem conducted an independent survey to understand the current state of feedback in organizations around the world. The results said that 7 out of 10 employees believe good feedback can be more effective for their development than other training or learning courses. Moreover, they found that 74% of employees believe feedback that gives directions to improve, is more valuable than praise.

Our Tandem delivers a toolkit to develop your people break down barriers and helps you to deliver a rich and meaningful HR solution. Through crowdsourced real-time continuous feedback, regular check-ins and agile goal setting.

CONTINUOUS & REAL-TIME FEEDBACK

The Our Tandem platform enables cross-functional, frequent, and insightful feedback to drive genuine behavioral change, as you can see from these dashboard examples. The dashboards are really intuitive and easy to use.

People are embracing the whole idea of feedback more. We are beginning to build the culture of CPM… there’s less fear around it, there’s more understanding that with the check-ins, that the organization can really see how people are progressing and it just adds into that whole agile way of working

Maeve MacEnri, Director of Human Resources, KBC Bank

FREQUENT CHECK-INS

Being able and confident enough to check-in frequently is so important to employee engagement and productivity levels, especially in a time of lockdowns and hybrid , largely remote working. The Our Tandem ‘Check-In’ functionality enables managers and employees to develop in their work, boost performance, manage and improve wellbeing and ultimately, feel supported.

Managers and employees are able to have guided coaching conversations that means conversations are tracked and actions are taken note of with outcomes provided, in an easy and friendly way. Moreover, you can follow-up on any 1-1s and check history really simply so progress is easily captured and maintained.

GOAL-SETTING

It’s not revolutionary that helping employees set and reach goals is vital for your business. However, whilst goals have long been used as a quantitative measure for employee performance, many organizations find that the goal-setting process takes a huge amount of time and is resource heavy. Our Tandem have created an agile goal-setting feature that provides a flexible and collaborative relationship, helping employees keep focused, remain engaged and deliver more.

Using their platform, goals can be linked to feedback and shared and changed at any time. Employees and managers can also request feedback on goals which can really improve engagement and utilization of the function.

Our Tandem facilitates people through change, education, awareness and communication which are key steps to successful adoption. They recognize that an employee engagement tool like Our Tandem requires differing levels of change management dependent on your starting point and your unique organizational culture. Find out more here.