Employee development / appraisal software

[VEIGHT]

Does anyone use software to help set employee goals, manage performance and help document appraisals etc?

[Flooble]

How big is your firm?

I'd expect basic functionality in the HR System, unless you are so small that employee development is likely to be far more informal than a software based solution could handle.

[VEIGHT]

Roughly 20 of us.

At the moment I have a lever arch file full of papers and want to get something more streamlined!

[Flooble]

For just 20 guys I'd honestly consider keeping it very very basic - you don't really need competency levels, job matching, skills gap analysis etc.

Putting in a system just to do appraisals I feel is overkill.

A job holder/role/skills pivot table in Excel would probably be enough for the planning side while recording the actual appraisals themselves is best done on paper I feel - laptops and computerised systems are really impersonal.

[VEIGHT]

I totally agree.

My biggest issue is following up, providing feedback, goal setting and keeping track of the goals, plus keeping to strict times to have 121's.

As a small business something always gets in the way.

Holidays for example we had a good system in excel however didn't provide staff with quick access info for dates, issues with requested what first etc, we now have a really simple software (Whos Off) which isn't over kill but a massive help. Looking for something like that....

Maybe like you say something in excel would be better,

[Flooble]

Well, we use Teamwork.com for tracking and that integrates for dates etc. Does recurring appointments and timeboxing.

Is not in any way an appraisal system (it's for project management really) but I suspect might cover the issues you have identified. Especially as it also links to Google Docs and any other link you like.