Employee appraisals as a strategic HR tool: Data-based personnel development with Evalea
Anna, the HR manager, invests a lot of time and energy in establishing regular employee appraisals. She knows how important these conversations are for feedback, target agreements and individual development. But she also notices that the many topics of conversation often get stuck in individual departments. They are stored in Word documents or Excel lists, which means that it lacks the necessary transparency and comparability.
With Evalea, Anna succeeds in taking the decisive step. First, it provides uniform discussion guidelines that ensure that the same topics are dealt with and documented in all teams. This creates comparable conversation content throughout the company. As a result, she can now also prepare the entire management team of the company specifically for conducting the interview.
Managers and employees document their answers directly in Evalea, where they are stored centrally. There, the information can be bundled according to topics such as goals, competencies or development measures and clearly structured.
For Anna, this means real added value: She can create company-wide evaluations and immediately recognize which competencies should be strengthened, where development needs lie or how successfully goals have been achieved.
On this basis, Anna can derive concrete measures: targeted training programmes, the adaptation of target agreements or the strengthening of certain skills.
What is particularly great for her is that employees can also directly express wishes for personnel development in the appraisal interview, which she can evaluate collectively.
This makes employee appraisals more than just a mandatory appointment for Anna. Thanks to Evalea, she gains valuable insights from the many conversations that advance the strategic personnel development of the entire company.
Modules used in Evalea
Overview of steps
Standardize conversations
With Evalea, uniform conversation guidelines can be provided throughout the company to ensure comparable conversation content.
Document the contents of the conversation
Content from employee appraisals is recorded directly in Evalea and stored centrally – without media breaks and scattered data.
Bundling topics
Evalea makes it possible to structure the documented content according to relevant topics such as goals, competencies, development or feedback.
Create an evaluation
Based on the central database, company-wide evaluations can be generated – e.g. on development needs or the individual achievement of an employee's goals.
Recognizing trends
Managers and HR can see at a glance which topics occur repeatedly and where there is a need for strategic action.
Deriving measures
The aggregated contents of the discussions serve as a basis for implementing concrete measures in personnel development in a targeted manner.
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