Employee reviews are an integral part of your organization’s culture and overall performance, and HR teams play a critical role in establishing standards, processes and compliance around reviews.
However, organizations often struggle with maintaining consistency with the process, documentation and follow-through across departments.
This can result in HR professionals spending time chasing down managers to complete steps, employees feeling frustrated with a lack of follow-up and missed opportunities for organizations to cultivate talent and employee performance.
Key Challenges with the Performance Review Process
Scheduling Timely Reviews
Some managers lag behind on scheduling review meetings with their team due to competing priorities, or they get bogged down with managing scheduling conflicts instead of focusing on the content of the conversation.
This means HR professionals end up spending time sending out reminders and manually monitoring whether steps have been completed across the organization.
Documenting Review Outcomes
Creating visibility for employees, their managers and leadership on review discussions is an important part of building a strong organizational culture around employee development. Oftentimes notes from an employee review end up buried in a manager’s files or in a single email to the employee after the fact, making it difficult to reinforce and track development opportunities.
Post-Review Follow-up
Follow-through to turn the performance review discussion into actionable next steps is a major gap between checking the box on completing reviews and truly developing employees and delivering feedback and guidance around progress. This can leave employees feeling frustrated instead of motivated.
ReviewSync Automates Key Tasks in Workday
Three Link Solutions just launched a new Built-on-Workday app called ReviewSync to reduce manual effort with the scheduling and logging process, guiding both manager and employee to stay aligned and connected for a better performance review experience.
ReviewSync Features:
- Seamless Integration: The integration between Workday Extend Native and Microsoft Outlook embeds directly into the Workday performance review process for an intuitive user experience.
- Sync and Automate: The app automatically finds available meeting times for managers and their employees, reducing time spent on coordinating calendars.
- Easily Log Outcomes: ReviewSync ensures that review meeting details are recorded in Workday for visibility, reducing the administrative burden and fostering accountability for follow-up.
ReviewSync frees up managers from juggling schedules so they can focus more on employee development, increases visibility and consistency for HR and leadership, and ultimately provides a tool that helps support your organization’s culture around employee performance and development.
See more details on the ReviewSync app for Workday.
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Stay tuned for more Built-on-Workday apps from Three Link Solutions that will be rolling out in the first half of 2026!
