So what have Performance Review and Christmas in common? Right: nothing. That’s why the performance review should not come with any surprises…
(Almost) everybody likes a surprise on Christmas day. However, for performance reviews the guiding principle of good management practise has always been: No surprises!
An employee should always have a good idea of how her or his performance is perceived throughout 
the year, and line managers should have a good overview of the status of their teams various objectives. In theory, you don’t need a tool to support that. In the real world (also see „…Line Managers are Human, too“), we need every support we can get to improve performance management, one of the Talent Management processes with the broadest direct business impact.
SuccessFactors Goals and Performance together with the new Continuous Performance solution encourages line managers as well as employees to keep track of objectives and achievements, capture ideas and suggestions for the next meeting, so they are not forgotten, and see the „big“ annual performance review as what it should be: a summary and conclusion of an ongoing conversation throughout the year.
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