KeyneLink™: Strategy-based Performance Management



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Question: What are the differences between "strategies", "plays", "plans", "goals" and "good intentions"?

Answer: There is no difference, they are all dreams, fantasies, or just "good ideas", until they are executed!

 

Strategy-based performance management is about leading and motivating employees and guiding execution towards accomplishing clearly defined "ends": strategies, goals, deliverables.

Companies and individuals are more effective when they have realistic initiatives, tangible goals and standards, and a consistent system for measuring success. Yet, most employees do not have a clear understanding of expectations.

Strategy-based performance management communicates a company's (or department's, or team's) vision, mission, values and strategies so all "players" can align with them as the central focus of day-to-day operations.

"Today, only half of employees understand how their actions relate to company goals. Over 40% feel their compensation is not adequately tied to job performance, and over 75% say their company does not reward them or motivate them to achieve goals. Most employees do not even have a clear understanding of what is expected of them or how the company is evaluating them."
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Wayne Nelson

Introducing KeyneLink, a revolutionary performance management system that integrates your organizations strategies, vision and values with the daily activities of your people. K is part process, part software, and part roadmap. It motivates your organization, teams and employees to work together to reach goals and head off problems before they become big.

KeyneLink is not an automated performance appraisal system masquerading as a performance management system. There are plenty of those out there on the market, and we are not in that business. KeyneLink is a true strategy-based performance management system that focuses on ongoing communication and feedback, the two characteristics that have proven time and time again to be the keys to successful results.

 

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Coach Watching Players A true performance management system
The problem with performance appraisals is that they are a once-a-year (if at all), dreaded event. Managers don't like giving them, and employees don't like receiving them. And those automated performance appraisal systems out there on the market do little to alleviate the dread of the face-to-face meeting.

Instead of waiting until the end of the year to tell employees if the road they took was an acceptable one, KEYNE
Link helps managers lead and guide employees down the road as they travel, rendering the traditional end-of-year performance appraisal obsolete. Ongoing communication is at the core of our system, and when communication takes place regularly (as it should!), there is no need for a formal appraisal at the end of the year. Instead, loose ends are tied up and rewards are distributed.

 

Incorporating best practice standards


KeyneLink  incorporates industry best practice standards into its performance management system.

From goal alignment to expectation setting and performance measurement including 360-degree feedback and organizational culture
surveys, KeyneLink delivers the highest quality processes possible.
Assessments KEYNEView, our 360-degree feedback survey, is based upon years of research and refinement and is available online to give organizations and employees valuable data for goal-setting.  It takes only minutes to set up, and the data integrates seamlessly into KEYNELink.
Responsibilities Clarification All employees have the right to know what's expected of them, and KEYNELink helps in this process with its primary job responsibility clarification wizard. This wizard guides employees and managers through the thoughtful process of defining expectations, and it even allows for mid-course changes as circumstances warrant.
Goal Setting KEYNELink automates the creation, assignment, and ongoing monitoring of employee and team goals. This automated process results in improved communications around expectations and goals, increased employee engagement, and increased visibility and accountability throughout the organization.
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Integral to the success of any employee performance management initiative is ongoing communication between managers and their employees.  KEYNELink helps coordinate, prepare for, track, and document these discussions so that both employees and managers stay on track and can make mid-course corrections as necessary.

 

KEYNELink features:
  • No hardware or software to maintain
  • No dedicated IT staff required for rollout and maintenance
  • Provides for immediate upgrades and maintenance
  • Optimized for 24/7 uptime and performance
  • Is highly scalable and secure
  • Built on an industry standard architecture
  • Intuitive user interface allows for ease-of-use
  • Hosted system allows for 24/7 access from anywhere in the world