2% The Performance Agreement - Check-ins
Process Step
Lesson Duration
About 15 minutes
What you will learn
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When the check-in functionality becomes active
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Using the check-in stats
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How a manager would do a check-in on an objective, and provide feedback
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How the employee can reply on a check-in's feedback
Doing a Check-in on Objectives
After submitting their performance objectives, employees will work on achieving them for three to four months before doing the review with their managers.
During this period, using the check-ins functionality provides a simple but effective way of keeping the objectives in focus, getting guidance and direction from a manager, and ensuring there are no surprises during the actual review.
Activating the check-in
The check-in statistics
Doing a check-in
Replying on check-in feedback
The Check-In functionality is used to determine whether your employee is still on track with regards to the Performance Contract’s KPAs, Company Values, Leadership Behaviours, and Key Competencies prior to the start of the Rating phase.
A check-in can be done any number of times during the employee’s performance cycle. You as manager can evaluate the employee’s progress against set targets and add suitable comments. The employee can review your comments and evaluation, and add their own comments.
Remember, a check-in is not a replacement for a face-to-face discussion with your employee, it is done in addition to regular discussions.
After logging in, navigate to your Manager Performance Management Dashboard and locate the applicable employee. Click on the Check-Ins button in the applicable review period to view the content and do the check-in evaluation.
The little counter inside the Check-ins button gives you a count of previous check-ins.
The Check-In screen opens and you will notice right at the top, the counters giving some statistics about your check-ins with your employee.
The lower half of the screen contains the Key Performance Areas, Company Values, Leadership Behaviours, and Key Competency sections, with all their content as captured on the employee's contract.
Click the down arrow of any section to expand that section.
Click on the Check-In button to add your evaluation and comments per item.
Evaluating an item is not done in terms of the regular 1 to 5 rating scale, but in the format of an On Track, or Not on Track indication.
The information in the Comments field is made available to your employee; information typed as Private Comments are not.
A detailed history is kept of every check-in evaluation.
Only the last check-in can be edited so double-check your entry before saving it.
The screen statistics is updated to reflect every new entry.
The Check-In functionality is used to determine whether you are still on-track with regards to the Performance Contract prior to the start of the Rating phase. You can add comments and view the last check-in rating and comments made by your Manager.
A check-in can be done as many times during your performance cycle as is needed.
Click on the Check-Ins button to view the content and check-in screen. The little counter inside the Check-ins button gives you an indication that your manager did a check-in with you.
The Check-Ins screen is a high-level summary of your contract, listing all its sections in the dropdowns.
At the top of the screen, you can see some statistics about the number of check-ins done on your review period.
Expand the Key Performance Areas section to see if any check-ins were done there.
You should see the indicators On Track, or Not On Track in the Last Rating column, as well as your manager’s Last Comments.
Clicking the information icon will refresh your memory as to the planned targets for a specific KPI.
If you also want to say something about the manager’s check-in, click on the Comment button to add your comments per item.
Click SAVE when done.
Your comments are saved and added to the screen.
Click Back to Employee Dashboard to exit the Check-in screen.
Recommended further reading
- Glossary of terminology and definitions.
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