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A strong Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review process will help you to...

• Better motivate and retain top performers
• More closely align individuals' goals with those of your organization, and
• Create a more engaged workforce

- all of which lead to greater productivity, and ultimately, improves your company's bottom line.

While such benefits are quantifiable and significant, many businesses do not have small business performance management procedures. Those that do, often employ time-consuming, labor-intensive, paper-based procedures, such as standardized word-processing documents, database templates or other rudimentary electronic methods.

With today's web-based, automated solutions, small and medium-sized businesses can benefit from leading HR best practices by implementing a more cost-effective, proven approach to Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review that will yield the desired business results.

As a small or medium-sized business, you can now take advantage of an affordable and automated solution for utilizing Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review best practices established by leading companies and Human Resource (HR) experts. Implement and benefit from the following proven HR practices using step-by-step, plug-and-play methodologies:

1. Mutually establish employee goals so that you know, they know, and you both agree in advance, what's expected. These are SMART Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Framed.
2. Align individual goals with business goals to ensure that everyone is working toward the same shared outcomes
3. Allow employees to evaluate themselves as part of the review process
4. Facilitate both employee and manager participation in the review process equally so that both parties feel good about the outcome
5. Use a variety of measurements such as weighting and rating of goals to provide more meaningful perspectives of actual performance
6. Avoid subjective human bias by using proven credible and multiple rating techniques
7. Foster a culture of mutual trust and accountability with anonymous 360 degree feedback processes
8. Save time, improve efficiency and ensure retaining a satisfied, talented and well-motivated workforce

Use the following proven Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review tools and techniques to get the most out of your workforce:

• Performance Reviews: Create professional reviews that effectively motivate employees in half the time
• Goal Management: Productively align employee performance with company objectives
• 360 Degree Reviews: Capture valuable anonymous performance feedback
• Compensation Planning: Establish a true pay-for-performance culture
• Business Analytics: Use built-in reports or create your own to track, measure and adjust accordingly to ensure shared progress

A simple and cost-effective web-based application will help your organization to employ these valuable practices efficiently and eliminate other more manual, tedious and costly approaches.

An automated system can ensure that your organization's Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review process is built around proven practices that encourage management and employee participation, operates more efficiently and brings about greater consistency to the entire performance review process.

By using automation to replace ineffective, time-consuming, paper-based processes, you can save your company time and money while establishing tighter links between employee and organizational goals. Employee performance can be more closely correlated to compensation, employment planning, retention and profitability. Other benefits to your organization include an increased capacity to...

1. Implement Small Business Performance Management Best Practices More Easily
2. Increase Goal Visibility and Boost Shared Accountability
3. Gain Powerful Insights by Using Collected Data More Effectively
4. Ensure Compliance
5. Eliminate Paperwork Hassles
6. Improve Feedback Quality and Strengthen Management Skills
7. Save Time
8. Gather Feedback That's More Honest, Objective and Open
9. Improve Your Bottom Line

Regardless of what size your business is, there are benefits to better aligning performance with business objectives on an ongoing basis. Advancements in technology have made this process affordable, efficient and reliable building upon years of successful employee motivational techniques to automate practices, web-enable a system, and facilitate more employee engagement. Select from any one of the following topics to learn more about available Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review features and benefits.

For businesses with less than 25 employees, an automated, web-based Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review system can help you to create more professional reviews faster saving you time while also productively motivating your staff in achieving company objectives. Built-in features include:

• A Step-by-Step Guide to walk you through an easy, 3-step review process
• A Writing Assistant to help you quickly find the words to productively articulate your perspectives
• A Competency Library with over 50 competencies (skill sets) to help you establish a framework for the evaluation
• A printing assistant to generate Professionally Formatted Reviews

Learn how other businesses have tackled Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review issues. Below are specific success stories by type of industry:

Most all purchase decisions made in a business are justified by return on investment (ROI) and a new Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review system is no exception. Below are compelling reasons why using a web-based, automated approach will more than pay for itself over time.

1. Focuses on results, rather than behaviors, activities or personalities
2. Aligns business activities and processes to business objectives and goals
3. Cultivates a system-wide, long-term business view that is results driven
4. Produces meaningful and quantifiable measurements
5. Requires specificity of desired outcomes and establishes accountability
6. Validates expectations with measurable outcomes as an ongoing process rather than a 1-time, snap-shot event
7. Supports fairness and equitable treatment with results-based appraisals
8. Assessment tools are directed at measuring performance against overall business objectives rather than specific job or tasks
9. Maintains ongoing communications between all members of the business facilitating feedback and dialogue around business goals
10. Cultivates a system perspective where inter-relationships between departments, processes, groups and employees is the focus instead of specific events
11. Requires specificity of commitments and resources
12. Provides benchmarks for comparisons, direction and strategic planning
13. Ensures that all employees have the information needed to focus on and work toward a shared goal of achieving company objectives
14. Provides a proven and easy-to-use methodology for all employees to become vested in outcomes
15. Facilitates improved productivity, operational efficiencies and increased profitability where all employees remain aware and actively engaged in business outcomes

Choose a Small Business Performance Management & Employee Review solution below that best fits your business needs, or request more information by selecting from the following options:

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