This article provides an overview of the Performance & Development area in Personio.

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What is the Performance & Development area in Personio?

In the Performance & Development area in Personio, you can access comprehensive performance management and training management functionalities: 

• Automated Performance Review Cycles: Create and trigger standardized performance review cycles across the organization using the Performance Review Cycle Builder and enable employees and supervisors to manage tasks such as creating, organizing and sending feedback autonomously. 
• 360° Feedback (Upward, Peer, Manager and Self Reviews, and Continuous feedback): Collect feedback from employees, peers, and supervisors across the organization for more balanced performance reviews and gain improved visibility of employee progress. Enable employees to complete self-reflections. Send feedback proactively to any employee in the organization.
• Centralized Training Management: Create training courses and training sessions, enroll employees in training sessions, and track employee attendance in one location.
• Centralized Goal Management: view, create and edit Goals for all employees in your organization.

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To access the Performance & Development area, click on Performance & Development on the main navigation bar in Personio. Alternatively, go to Performance & Development > Feedback,  Performance & Development > Cycles, Performance & Development > Training or Performance & Development > Goals.

Create and manage performance review cycles

Under Performance & Development > Cycles, Administrators, and employees with edit rights for the Training section in the Performance & Development area can create new performance review cycles using the Performance Review Cycle Builder, and manage performance review cycles.

Supervisors can view and access all review cycles in which at least one of their direct reports is a participant. 

View details for a specific performance review cycle 

To view the details of a specific performance review cycle, go to Performance & Development > Cycles and then click on the name of the relevant review cycle. A table displays which shows the following review cycle details for each employee: the employee, the type of review, and the status of the review. Click the three dots to:

• see the employee's performance overview,
• request peer feedback, or
• remove the employee from the review cycle.

360° feedback

Under Performance & Development > Feedback, feedback is organized under the following tabs:

• To do: All the Self Reviews, Peer Reviews, Upward Reviews and Manager Reviews that are assigned to the reviewer for all review cycles are displayed here. These reviews have not been sent and are only visible to the reviewer. This tab also displays Continuous feedback drafts that the employee has not sent yet.
• About others: All the Peer Reviews, Upward Reviews and Manager Reviews that the reviewer has sent for all review cycles are displayed here. Continuous feedback that the employee has sent is also displayed here.
• About you: All the Self reviews, Peer Reviews, Upward Reviews and Manager Reviews that the employee has received from others for all review cycles are displayed here. Continuous feedback that the employee has received from others is also displayed here.

Depending on your role and access rights you can access the employee list on the left handside of the Feedback section. In the list:

• Supervisors can see all continuous feedback shared with them and with their direct reports. They can also see all feedback received by their direct reports that is related to performance review cycles.
• Administrators and employees with edit rights for the Performance section of the Performance & Development can view all continuous feedback received by all employees in the organization, together with all feedback related to performance review cycles.

To learn more about edit and view access rights for performance review cycles and Continuous feedback, see View and edit access in the Performance & Development area.

Training management

The training section in the Performance & Development area is open to all active employees, under Performance & Development > Training. 

The section is comprised of three tabs: Course catalog, Planned courses and Training history.

Course catalog

Here, Administrators and employees with edit rights for the Training section in the Performance & Development area can access training management functionalities that make it easier to manage and organize training courses and sessions, and to track training sessions. They can:

▶︎ Add new training courses and training course sessions by clicking on Add a new training course. They can adjust training course details and training session details, including the name, date and time, and capacity of the relevant training session.

▶︎ Manage training courses and training course sessions. Specifically, they can do the following.

• View all training courses that have been added.
• View all training sessions that have been added to training courses.
• Add employees to and remove employees from training sessions.
• Open training sessions to self enrollment.
• Track employee attendance at training sessions.
• Delete training courses and training sessions.

The Course catalog is also available to all active employees. Here they can view all courses containing at least one session that is open to self enrollment. They can choose the sessions they want to join and sign up via the Sign up button.

Planned courses

This tab displays all upcoming courses and sessions that the employee has signed up to, or has been added to. If necessary, employees can select any session and cancel their attendance via the Cancel attendance button.

Training history

This tab displays a list of all past training courses and sessions that the employee has participated in.

Goal management

Under Performance & Development > Goals, Personio offers the possibility to configure and manage performance goals for all employees in the organization. Here you can:

▶︎ Create and configure goals. For each goal you can define appropriate subgoals to measure progress.

▶︎ Link a goal to a salary bonus, and choose how to distribute the bonus between weighted subgoals.

▶︎ Comment on goals to ensure constant, transparent communication with your reports or your supervisor.

Depending on your role and access rights, you can access the employee list on the left-hand side of this section.

Using the list,

• Supervisors can manage their own goals, and all goals that they have created for their reports; 
• Administrators and employees with edit rights for the Performance section of the Performance & Development area can view and edit goals for all the employees in the organization.

For more information on what goals you can view and edit depending on your role and access rights, see our article View and edit access in the Performance & Development area.

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