Performance Impact Workplace

by KNOWLEDGEPOINT

Product Features

• Quickly and easily communicate and reinforce desired goals and behaviors
• Enjoy the simplicity of using 55 competencies written by human resource experts
• Review forms are provided to save you time and can be easily customized
• Set goals with employees and track their progress with progress notes
• Reminders help maintain consistent interaction with employees

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000DZF9P
• Item model number: PIWUE
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,004 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #69 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Tracking & Inventory

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Is it easy for you to set goals for your employees, but you have trouble following up on those goals? Do you hate writing performance reviews? Now there is a solution that over 150,000 people have proven saves time and helps you become more effective at managing employees. It is called, Performance Impact Workplace. Using this simple software you can quickly and easily communicate and reinforce desired goals and behaviors for your employees.

Out of the box you have a solution designed for your business. Others have done the work so you get started faster. Enjoy the simplicity of using 55 competencies written by human resource experts. Industry specific competencies are also available for Manufacturing, Healthcare, Finance, State and Local Government, Law Enforcement and Corrections, Call Center and Customer Service, Information Technology, and Fire and Emergency Services.

Performance review forms are provided: review forms are provided to save you time and are easily customized should your company have unique needs.

Reminders help you follow-through: eliminate inconsistency in your management style by leveraging reminders in Performance Impact Workplace to help you communicate regularly with your team members to check progress on goals, log events, and complete performance reviews.

Easy customization: built-in tools help you change review forms, competencies, terminology, review language, and more to meet the unique needs of your organization.

Reports help you communicate to others: reports and reporting options provide more power to measure effectiveness and provide valuable decision-making data to your organization.

Administration and Integration: administrator tools ensure your Performance Impact Workplace system works the way you want it to.

Developed for small to mid-sized organizations, Performance Impact Workplace transforms employee review writing into an effective, year-round performance management system for your entire organization. An intuitive, easy-to-use interface guides managers through every step of the review process, while our exclusive Intelli-text Designer gets managers past the "blank page" syndrome, ensuring proper language, and guaranteeing professional, effective results.

You will appreciate the fact that Performance Impact Workplace is a performance management solution that is fast and easy to use--here are some highlights for you to savor.

• Goal management that drives performance: set, track, and measure goals with employees to align performance with organizational objectives.
• Document conduct important to promotion or dismissal: you can document conduct ("log events") in seconds, including information about the meeting you have with the employee discussing the event and attaching supporting emails or digital text documents.
• Professional reviews in a fraction of the time: in contrast to struggling about what to say about an employee, reviews get done on time because managers quickly and easily evaluate performance and the draft narrative is written for them.
• Coaching and development that works: over 2,000 built-in coaching ideas help maximize employee effectiveness and encourage manager-employee contact.
• Field-tested competencies: Measure what matters specific to your business by motivating desired employee behavior with 55 standard competencies developed by human resource professionals. Additional industry specific competencies are available.
• Language checker is your "lawyer in a box": when you have finished writing a review or log event, the Language Checker audits your wording for words and phrases that might be considered discriminatory or overly subjective.

Product Description

VURV EXPRESS V2.0 PERFORMANCE IMPACT WORKPLACE BY KNOWLEDGEPOINT

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible user interface. Keep looking., October 17, 2004

By 

frustrated Perf. Impact user (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance Impact Workplace (CD-ROM)

We've been using this software for the past two years and it is not by the choice of the managers or the employees actually using the product. The user interface is simply not acceptable in 2004. It is difficult to copy and paste, you need to be careful not to hit the backspace button on your browser or you may lose data, you drill down numerous levels to get to some views, then must find the "done" button to exit back -- and the location of the done button varies from one page to the next.

There must be better packages available. If you have a choice, keep looking. If you have been given this software to use, you have my sympathy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't buy this, April 26, 2005

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Don't Like It - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance Impact Workplace (CD-ROM)

While I realize that it is probably difficult for HR departments to find appropriate software to make the review process easier for everyone, Performance Impact is not the software that they are looking for!

First of all, the technology is outdated. The instructions ask you to download Microsoft Virtual Machine, which I had to figure out on my own doesn't even exist. It also won't work on my Mac, so I had to sit at a terminal in the HR department to fill everything out, thereby missing many phone calls. It also wouldn't work with any browser other than Internet Explorer.

Secondly, the software is anything but intuitive. It is pretty complicated and required everyone in the company to attend training sessions. Things that should exist just don't. There aren't default settings or helpful tutorials.

Thirdly, the system is SLOW. It takes nearly a minute to load a page. This is hosted on their webserver, not ours.

Fourthly, there are so many problems with the system. Entire paragraphs dissappear. HR told everyone to be sure to save the review elsewhere.

Please don't buy this. Your employees will hate it. Maybe I will start a software company to build better software for HR.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps me manage more effectively, November 5, 2003

By 

David Russell (Novato, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Performance Impact Workplace (CD-ROM)

Major upgrade from KnowledgePoint's Performanace Now Enterprise software. Simple Outlook-like interface makes it fast and easy to manage people. My problem is following-up on goals set with employees. Now I just put a Task in Outlook to check PI Workplace every 2 days for reminders. PI Workplace reminds me when to follow-up on the goals and makes it easy to jot down notes on progress. Performance reviews take less than half the time, yet are much more comprehensive. Super solution I recommend to anyone seeking to be more effective in managing their team.