Feedback / Talent Build Tools

There’s a lot of glitz and gimmicks out there from web-vendors and software makers who purport the latest and greatest in online performance appraisals and  so-called “complete talent management solutions.”  These include neato performance appraisal makers and auto-score systems that  use consistent verbage and canned language to describe various performance behaviors at multiple levels of proficiency.  And don’t forget those customized, validated “competency models” that keep skill inventories on every worker.  There’s a goals and objectives tracking system too, plus a training needs assessment add-on and even a system that suggests pay increases after all the data is analyzed.  Pretty reports and pie charts too.  Muitiple rater and 360-degree feedback modules, career path illustrators, leadership profiles, self asssement surveys, auto e-mail reminders and all the rest in an endless digital parade of online gizmos that promise to increase productivity and exponentially improve performance feedback and employee-management interaction across your company.  

Except it doesn’t work and you don’t  need any of it!

Instead, Switch HR can tell you how to create simple, powerful feedback tools and employ meaningful reward and performance managment techniques  all in-house without software, without hosted “clouds” and at extremely low cost using easy surveys, common desktop applications  and quick-fill forms. Our performance management products include:

• Three-minute feedback “Service Checks”  customized to each job
• Annonymous 360-degree feedback via simple online surveys
• Voluntary, self-initiated feedback method (vs company-mandated appraisals)
• Simple talent inventories and organizational assessment of talent base
• Performance feedback actions and rewards that drive real change
• Human Resource Planning methdology for sustained talent building