Employee Performance Management System Software:

Keep your employees informed, aligned, and accountable with unique employee performance management software

Employee performance management becomes dramatically easier with SumTotal Performance, the core performance component of the SumTotal Talent Development Suite. This intuitive employee performance management system gives you the industry’s most advanced, most flexible, and most configurable solution available today, so you can align organizational goals with your workforce objectives for maximum employee productivity and value.

Our comprehensive employee performance management modules offer functionality that far surpasses simple assessments. In fact, our employee performance management software answers your most pressing requirements, from automating critical processes to controlling succession risks. SumTotal Performance also gives you dashboard visibility into progress and competency gaps, so you can seriously develop employee skills. And we give you the means to compensate, motivate, and retain your valuable talent—so you can focus on meeting business objectives now and in the future.

Our employee performance management software, SumTotal Performance, delivers proven benefits, including:

• Complete talent development
• Powerful, unmatched administrative management
• Unparalleled ease-of-use
• Comparative assessment tools to drive actionable decisions

Employee Performance Management Software: Key Benefits: Get total process integration with our Open Workflow Architecture. Customizable workflow integration makes it easy to align goals and assess performance across many organizational areas. Calibrate performance levels across the business. Ensure consistent application of performance standards with powerful tools that help managers edit and approve employee ratings. Enjoy true ease-of-use. Employee performance management software modules leverage unique drag-and-drop functionality, along with our patented VisualProfiler™ ratings system, to make our powerful capabilities simple to navigate. Leverage competency-driven development. Using industry best practices, identify fundamental competencies—and see how your employees stack up. Import your own competency framework, leverage third-party off-the-shelf content, or work with one of SumTotal’s competency partners. Automatic links to the SkillSoft® e-learning catalog enable managers to take immediate action and fill competency gaps with suggested learning activities.

Employee Performance Management Software: Special Features

Welcome to the intersection of power and simplicity. All of the SumTotal offerings for employee performance management incorporate a number of specialized features designed to improve usability and integrate with other talent development efforts and HR systems—so users can leave administrative headaches behind and focus on meeting core business objectives.

Special features include:

• Reporting and analytics: Leverage dashboard views and gather integrated data from multiple modules for sophisticated analytics. Generate reports easily using our growing library of graphical, easy-to interpret templates.
• Visual Profiler: The patented SumTotal rating interface is the easiest and most intuitive tool available—and it delivers more detailed performance feedback.
• Systems integration: Connect performance management modules with your other vital HR and administrative systems—including SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft—to improve accuracy of employee information, while providing additional data for more detailed analytics.
• Email reminders: Email integration enables delivery of customized date- or event-driven e-mail reminders, and facilitates dashboard reporting and analysis
• Legal Minder™: The unique SumTotal language scanner flags potentially problematic language, enabling users to write comments with confidence

The SumTotal employee performance management system includes modules for:

• Goal Management: Streamline the creation and management of objectives through a cascading structure, so you can see how progress matches up from individual, departmental, and corporate perspectives.
• Performance Appraisals: Automate and calibrate your performance appraisal process to improve appraisal accuracy, compliance, and overall employee performance.  
• Multi-rater / 360-degree Feedback: Assess competencies through feedback from multiple angles, and deliver results that will make an impact on participants’ performance.
• Career & Succession Planning: Track and develop employee potential through self-service career inventories and customizable analytics that tie in data from other modules.
• Compensation: Automatically calculate budget impact and highlight overages, so you can test pay-for-performance scenarios without breaking the bank.

If you would like to talk with us about how we might help you strengthen your learning and development, talent and employee performance, please call us at 1-866-SMTOTAL (866-768-6825) and ask to speak to one of our sales professionals, or use our online contact form to have us contact you.