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Hey Carolyn,

Good to be blogging with you.

And with you, Goldy. I think this is gonna be a good gig.

Carolyn,

Congratulations and best wishes. I'm available for an occasional contribution. I'm already at the Daily Fix and BrandingWire, so I can't handle another full-time gig, but if you need a pinch hitter, let me know.

Thank you Lewis. You might want to talk to Jonathan about guest posting. The blog is his baby; I'm simply one of the early contributors. You'd be a great addition, IMHO.

Employee Performance Management

Strategic Employee Performance Management consists of three key properties and is supported by a network of programs designed to encourage personal and professional growth within your organization.

The foundation of this process includes:

1. Managing Individual Performance: Best practices for the performance appraisal process
2. Achieving Goals: Alignment of individual goals to corporate goals
3. Developing Top Performers: Assignment of objectives to challenge future leaders

HRsmart’s comprehensive Employee Performance Management solution facilitates measurement and execution of company objectives across all levels of the organization.

The system enables Human Resources to:

* Set up workflows by job family or individual role to ensure the process is implemented consistently across the organization.
* Track milestones automatically with a quick view of outstanding plans and appraisal. Reminders can be set up at different intervals to be sent automatically to reduce manual follow-up.
* Manage corporate goal achievement so your talent management strategy produces tangible results for the executive suite.
* Automate your existing process, so you can keep the components that are proven to work in your organization.
* Report on key metrics such as completed appraisals, progress toward goals, average scores, gaps in skills and competencies.
* Identify top performers to develop succession plans, career management and promotion.

Streamlined Multi-Phased Appraisal Process is the foundation for managing performance in any organization. With a proactive plan to set employee expectations and support productivity and growth, and a system for offering proactive feedback, top performers are easily and objectively identified.

360º Feedback allows for a complete view of how employees interact with co-workers, managers, clients or vendors from their unique perspectives.

Competency & Skills Management is an important tool for developing characteristics of top performers by job family. Measuring performance and mapping it to consistent job characteristics helps employees and managers better understand areas of mastery or where improvement is needed.

With Goal Management as part of the Employee Performance Management, corporate objectives as set by the organization’s governing body become a core component of every employee’s annual plan. Goals can be cascaded throughout the organization from the top or they can be set to begin at the manager level. A complete view of the progress toward meeting goals is displayed in a wrap up for executives with automatic calculation of goal completion at every level in the organization.

Analytics & Reporting graphically displays performance gaps or accomplishments and company progress toward meeting corporate goals or objectives for executives and management.

HRsmart’s Employee Performance Management solution is a component of its full talent management application suite and can be deployed with Recruitment, Career Development, Succession Planning, Learning Management or Compensation Management to support an organization's complete human capital strategy.