(v1) The main features of Appraisd

Reviews

As an employee, you'll have reviews with your line manager. This could happen as frequently as once a month or as little as once a year – it's up to you and your line manager or your organisation's policy.

Each review follows a 3-stage or 4-stage process, depending on whether you're using the second sign-off feature.

A review uses a review form which is usually pre-defined by the Administrator. The form specifies all the questions that will be asked of the reviewee, the manager and feedback reviewers.

A review has a due date, which Appraisd uses to send email reminders to the relevant people.

SMART objectives, goals, personal development activities, career plans, and sometimes training all come under the banner of Objectives.

An objective in Appraisd has a date by which it should be either completed or reviewed. This date is used to show the objective in the right place on the review form and to help Appraisd send email reminders as appropriate.

Individuals and their managers (among others) can write progress updates on an objective at any time. These updates are gathered together for the review meeting. Progress updates are a great tool for monthly 1-to-1 meetings, if you have them.

Feedback, also known as 360-degree feedback, can be gathered for a review. Feedback doesn't happen outside of a review, although people who've been invited to give feedback can enter feedback notes at any time in the run up to a review.

As you'd expect, Appraisd gives you or your HR department all the tools you need to manage reviews, feedback and objectives as well as extract useful insights from the data. You can produce reports on objectives and review ratings for all your employees and drill down into teams and departments.

The dashboard is what you see when you first log in to Appraisd and it provides an overview of each of the key areas of Appraisd and any actions you need to take.