Develop your dream team and boost performance
Take your employee performance management to the next level with timely, actionable, and meaningful assessments that foster a culture of quick check-ins, open dialogue, and real-time feedback to help your team grow where they need it most.
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Foster a culture that builds your team
Your team can request feedback from any other team member – peer, upward, downward – at any time giving you a well-rounded view of employee impact throughout the year, not just during review season.
Achieve goals that drive impact
Goal tracking and customizable performance reviews make it easy to align your team’s work to measurable business impact.
Streamline your performance review process
Automate performance management and save time with tools to schedule, track progress, and complete review cycles.
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Culture building
Foster the right kind of culture for holistic growth.
Corporate culture is more than just happy hour. Open communication improves top-down relationships—and when people feel comfortable asking questions and voicing concerns, they feel respected and recognized. With built-in conversation templates, self-evaluations, peer-to-peer reviews, and real-time 360 feedback, you can be sure you’re creating a culture that helps nourish your business.
Performance management
Powerful people analytics that can make an impact
With customizable questions and review cycles—along with OKRs and goal tracking—Gusto packs a dynamic suite of tools to help your employees fulfill their potential. Add in automated workflows and an easy-to-use dashboard, and you can quickly understand pain points to get the most out of your team. Need even more power? We integrate with best-in-class tools like Lattice and 15Five to take your performance management to the next level.
Employee engagement
Happy employees are better for business.
The results are in. Employees want more feedback more often to feel engaged and productive at their jobs. Engaged employees work harder, stay at their companies longer, and report more job satisfaction.* Creating a great place to work with constructive guidance, regular accolades, and opportunities for growth helps you retain and attract top performers—which means both your people and your business thrive.
“It’s great to have Gusto to plop everything right into instead of having to start our performance review process from scratch.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Employee performance management software is designed to increase employee productivity by providing meaningful feedback and support. It helps both employees and teams stay aligned with company goals while helping employees improve where they need support. A great performance management tool should also encourage giving regular praise where it’s due, meaning employees feel valued and engaged along the way.
Performance management best practices have shifted over time. While in years past, an annual review with your manager was thought to be enough, more frequent, casual check-ins are a much more effective way to help employees improve and get the most out of your team. Recognition, fairness, and feedback are the top drivers of employee engagement, so schedule that weekly one-on-one, give credit where it’s due, and provide opportunities for two-way feedback towards managers and peers.
Absolutely. Effective performance management means getting the most out of your employees while creating a healthy work culture. If you’ve been managing annual reviews with pen and paper or tracking performance on a spreadsheet, a robust performance management solution like Gusto can be a game-changer for increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. With additional insights such as self-evaluations, goal setting, and progress over time, teams and managers are empowered to make agile decisions to better help employees succeed.
You know it! Gusto seamlessly integrates with all the best-in-class performance management solutions out there such as Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five, and more. If you’re ready to take your employee performance management software to the next level, Gusto’s got you covered.
Performance management tools make receiving, collecting, and reacting to feedback a built-in part of your workflow. And that feedback culture is vital to any workplace. Many studies have shown that employees who don’t receive adequate feedback (whether constructive or congratulatory) perform worse, feel lower job satisfaction, and are more likely to leave their current positions. Also, an employee’s relationship with their direct boss is one of the strongest indicators of job satisfaction. No matter which performance review platform you choose, make sure it’s one that has the tools for regular, flexible feedback cycles.
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