Transform Performance Management

Successfully align individual work with organizational goals

Performance management isn’t performing

A vast majority of HR leaders (84%) are working to fix their performance management systems. While companies have addressed poor performance results by reinventing their performance management process, they have been routinely disappointed. This has caused employees and managers to perceive performance management as bureaucratic, costly and of low value. 

96% of amangers are dissatisfied with their organization's current performance management practices
Performance management and talent management processes are absolutely critical for us because we need to have the capability within the company to produce quickly to remain competitive and we need top performing talent for that.

Jamie Whitmore

Head of Global Talent, Ansell

Build flexible and ongoing performance management systems

The best companies are shifting away from rigid systems toward a more flexible approach that reinforces the critical behaviors that matter every day, and aligned individual work with organizational goals. Effective performance management includes providing meaningful, real-time feedback; ensuring that employees have clear expectations; and coaching employees to achieve their maximum performance levels. 

Business Context: more team-based work, greater need for agility and higher demand for employee development. Outside the group is misaligned performance management practices.

Insights you can use

Gartner’s performance management insights, advice, data and tools help HR streamline performance management systems to maximize value to the business.

Understand the Changes That Make Performance Management More Effective

Eighty-one percent of HR leaders say they’re making changes to performance management but are unsure of impact. To better understand what changes move the needle, Gartner interviewed nearly 10,000 executives and employees to understand common performance management pain points plus strategies for increasing performance management’s utility. 

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Consider Incorporating User Ratings in Performance Management

In this article, Gartner explores the impact of user ratings and details a few performance management strategies that actually improve performance and could be complemented by a user rating system. 

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Enable Business-Driven Performance Management

HR leaders should serve as consultants to ensure effective business-driven performance management. Use this guide to create a structured approach to customization that is aligned to organizational talent management outputs and principles, but also supports the unique needs of the business. 

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Why Performance Management Is Failing

Gartner interviewed more than 80 CHROs and heads of talent management to understand trends and challenges in performance management today. This infographic takes a deep dive into what causes performance management to fail and what makes it excel.

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Leverage Talent Analytics to Improve Performance Management

In this interview with Infosys Corporate Organizational Development Team, we uncover how the team utilizes talent analytics to lead trackable, performance management transformations.

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Eliminating Performance Ratings: Good or Bad?

Understand the impact that eliminating performance ratings can have on your organization and learn the three performance management strategies successful organizations focus on.

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Key Takeaways from Gartner ReimagineHR Conference 2019

More than 2,800 HR leaders came together worldwide to learn how to prepare their organizations for the future of work. Download the key takeaways to see what you missed.

Great networking and highly relevant content and issues explored. We are seeing nuggets in every session we attend!

Lynn Borthwick

SVP, Talent, Wiley
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How do we help you transform performance management?

Laurie Roy, VP of Human Resources and Global Talent Management at Alcoa, shares how Gartner’s research and advisory services helped her team transform performance management to create a different work culture.

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Director, Advisory

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Director, Advisry

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VP, Advisory

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