This article gives an overview of what employees can view and edit in the Performance & Development area, depending on their role and access rights. You can find this information for the following sections of the Performance & Development area:
Goals
Goals can be created, viewed, edited and deleted under Performance & Development > Goals.
The following table explains what employees can see and edit there:
| Who | What goals can they view and comment on? | What goals can they update the progress of? | What goals can they edit and delete? |
| Employees |
Goals they created for themselves Goals created for them by their supervisor, an Administrator, or an employee with edit rights for the Goals section in the Performance & Development area |
Goals they created for themselves Goals created for them by their supervisor, an Administrator, or an employee with edit rights for the Goals section in the Performance & Development area (if the option "Allow employee to update progress of this goal" is selected when creating the goal) |
Goals they created for themselves |
| Supervisors |
Goals they created for themselves Goals they created for their direct reports and their reports Goals created for them by their supervisor, an Administrator, or an employee with edit rights for the Goals section in the Performance & Development area |
Goals they created for themselves Goals they created for their direct reports and their reports Goals created for them by their supervisor, an Administrator, or an employee with edit rights for the Goals section in the Performance & Development area (if the option "Allow employee to update progress of this goal" is selected when creating the goal) |
Goals they created for themselves Goals they created for their direct reports and their reports |
| Administrators and employees with edit rights for Goals | Any goal created across the organization | Any goal created across the organization | Any goal created across the organization, unless the goal has been created for them by another Administrator, or by an employee with edit rights for the Goals section in the Performance & Development area |
Performance
Performance Reviews
Reviews are created, sent and received by employees within a performance review cycle. They are listed under Performance & Development > Cycles. The following table explains who can view and edit the different review types in Personio:
| Review type | Who can view it? | Who can edit it? |
| Draft Peer Reviews, Self Reviews, Manager Reviews, Upward Reviews | The reviewer | The reviewer (only while the review cycle is in progress) |
| Sent Manager Reviews | The reviewer, the receiver, Administrators, and employees with edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area | |
| Sent Self Reviews | The reviewer, the Supervisor, Administrators, and employees with edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area |
After a review is sent, it is locked. Only the Personio Administrator, the Supervisor and employees with edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area can unlock the review. Once the review is unlocked, the reviewer can edit it. |
| Sent Peer Reviews |
The reviewer, the Supervisor, Administrators, and employees with edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area Optional: The receiver of the feedback |
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| Sent Upward Reviews |
The reviewer, the Supervisor of the recipient of the Upward Review, Administrators, and employees with edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area |
Performance Feedback
Performance feedback is created under the Performance tab by the user with edit rights for performance data. Received and sent feedback can be viewed under Performance & Development > Feedback. The following table explains who can view and edit draft and sent feedback:
| Feedback type | Who can view it? | Who can edit it? |
| Draft feedback | The creator of the feedback | The creator of the feedback |
| Sent feedback |
This depends on the access rights settings. If an employee does not have a View access right to the Performance tab under the profile of the recipient of the sent feedback, they can't access the sent feedback. Likewise, if an employee does not have a View access right to the Performance tab under their own profile, they can't access the sent feedback. |
Continuous feedback
Continuous feedback is sent proactively via the Give feedback button under Performance & Development > Feedback. All employees can use this function to give feedback to anyone in the organization.
| Continuous feedback type | Who can view it? | Who can edit it? |
| Draft feedback | The reviewer | The reviewer |
| Sent feedback | The reviewer, the receiver, the receiver's supervisor (if the reviewer has ticked the option to share the feedback with the receiver's supervisor), employees with Edit rights for the Performance section in the Performance & Development area | Sent feedback cannot be edited |
Training
Training courses and sessions can be viewed, created, canceled and deleted under Performance & Development > Training. The following table explains what employees can see and edit there:
| Who | What can they view? | What can they edit? |
| Employees |
Upcoming training courses that have at least one session open to self enrolment Ongoing training sessions that they are participating in Past training sessions that they participated in |
Employees cannot edit training courses and sessions, but only sign up and withdraw their participation if needed |
| Administrators and employees with edit rights for the Training section in the Performance & Development area | All upcoming, past, and canceled training courses and sessions | All upcoming training courses and sessions |