AI-Powered Employee Coaching Software That Makes Every Manager Better
PerformYard employee coaching software gives managers a complete picture of each direct-report, preps managers for better 1:1s, and provides an always-on AI coach to help give fair, high-quality feedback.
AI Does the Prep Work So You Can Do The People Work
See the Whole Employee
Managers get a single-window view of where each person stands. Their reviews, goals, and development are captured alongside recommendations on where to act next.
Run Better 1:1s
Keep 1:1s on-topic and impactful with pre-and post-meeting summaries. Managers know exactly what to cover, what was missed and how the team engaged.
Give Fairer Feedback
Coaching analyzes manager feedback for bias and inconsistency, helping every manager write feedback that's specific, balanced, and grounded in real performance.
Run Any Review Process
PerformYard has everything we need to run our performance review process and is very easy to use. It’s enabling our performance program while we grow rapidly, helping us scale effectively.
One of our owners told me that PerformYard’s style and design have employees actually being thoughtful about the completion of their reviews and engaged in the process. That's a win!
It’s so easy to set up a review cycle, send it out, have our employees fill it out, and track who has completed their form and who still needs to finish.
Since using PerformYard, our employee evaluation and review process has gone from a time-consuming and stressful task to an easy and manageable routine.
Give Managers a Complete Picture With the Employee Insights Page
Great coaching starts with knowing where someone stands. The Employee Insights Page looks at the whole employee in your company's context, pulling together meeting notes, goals, competencies, and reviews into one view. It then recommends where a manager should focus next.
It's the manager's single source of truth for each person on their team.
Prep and Analyze Every 1:1 With the Meetings Coach
The Meetings Coach works on both sides of a meeting. Before, it surfaces what to cover from goals and prior conversations. After, it flags missed agenda items and evaluates manager talk-time, agenda coverage, and team engagement, so managers turn routine 1:1s into productive coaching moments.
Set Better Goals With the Goal Quality Coach
The Goal Quality Coach ensures every goal an employee sets follows your organization's goal philosophy, like SMART criteria, and suggest improvements as employees create goals. The result is clear and measurable objectives from the start.
It's a quality gate and a coach in one, keeping every goal meaningful, aligned, and worth pursuing.
Write Fair Reviews With the Review Quality Coach
After a manager drafts review feedback, the Review Feedback Quality Coach checks it for bias and conflicting data points, catching recency bias, vague or speculative feedback, and ratings that don't match the written comments.
It draws on how your organization runs reviews and how the employee has actually performed, so guidance feels tailored, not generic.
Your Complete Performance and Development Toolkit
Performance Reviews
Run Performance Reviews That Actually Drive Growth
- Employee appraisals
- 360 degree feedback
- Quarterly check-ins
- Annual reviews
- Project-based reviews
- Review cycles built around your timeline
- One-on-ones
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PerformYard AI
Tell the Platform What You Want
- Build review forms through conversation
- Create goals by chatting, not clicking
- Generate any report from a plain-language request
- AI summaries of reviews, meetings, and cycles
Goal Management
Set Goals People Actually Follow Through On
- Individual, team, and company goals
- Cascading and aligned objectives
- Progress check-ins and updates
- Goals tied directly into reviews
Continuous Feedback
Make Feedback a Habit, Not an Event
- Real-time recognition and feedback
- Public or private visibility options
- Feedback that feeds review cycles
- Simple enough that people actually use it
Reporting & Analytics
Turn Performance Data Into Decisions
- Cycle completion and participation tracking
- Rating distributions and trend lines
- Nine-box and calibration views
- Exportable, shareable reports
Employee Engagement
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Know How Your People Are Really Doing
- Anonymous engagement surveys
- Benchmark and trend tracking
- Drill-downs by team and department
- Action planning from results
Meetings
Run One-on-Ones Worth Showing Up For
- Shared agendas and talking points
- Notes and action items in one place
- Ties into goals and feedback
- Meeting history at your fingertips
Surveys
Get Answers From Your Whole Org
- Custom surveys in minutes
- Anonymous or attributed responses
- Automated reminders
- Results reporting built in
Ask PerformYard AI
Put Your Performance Data to Work
- One intelligence layer, connected to your reviews, goals, meetings, and feedback
- Recommendations built from your data, in your company's context
- Meeting notes inform goals; review outcomes feed comp and growth plans
- Every cycle makes the next one smarter
Coaching
Insights that Find You
- Employee Insights: a complete view of each person's performance and development.
- Meetings Coach: Pre-meeting prep and post-meeting analysis
- Goal Quality Coach: Ensures every goal is aligned with your organization's philosophy.
- Review Feedback Coach
Compensation
Pay Decisions Backed by Performance Data
- Comp reviews connected to performance
- Transparent, defensible pay decisions
- Budget and approval workflows
- Merit cycles without the spreadsheets
Skills & Competencies
Give Every Employee a Blueprint for Growth
- Define competencies by role and level
- Assess skills in reviews and check-ins
- Show employees the path forward
- Career pathing built on real data
Frequently Asked Questions
What is employee coaching software?
Employee coaching software helps managers give better, more consistent guidance to their teams. It uses performance data and AI to prepare managers for conversations, surface where to focus, and improve the quality of feedback, so effective coaching becomes a repeatable process instead of a personal skill some managers have and others don't.
How does PerformYard's coaching software help managers?
PerformYard gives managers four coaching capabilities: the Employee Insights Page for a complete view of each person, the Meetings Coach to prep and analyze 1:1s, the Goal Quality Coach to keep goals on-standard, and the Review Feedback Quality Coach to catch bias in reviews. Together they take the prep work off a manager's plate so they can focus on people.
Does the coaching software use AI?
Yes. AI generates contextual meeting briefs, evaluates meeting dynamics, teaches employees as they set goals, and flags bias and inconsistency in review feedback. It handles the analysis and prep so managers spend their time coaching, not preparing.
How does the Meetings Coach improve 1:1s?
The Meetings Coach surfaces what to cover before a meeting based on goals and past conversations, then analyzes the meeting afterward for missed agenda items, manager talk-time, and engagement. Post-meeting analysis uses Zoom or Teams transcripts to give managers concrete, specific coaching on how to run better meetings.
What kinds of bias can the Review Quality Coach catch?
The PerformYard Review Quality Coach flags common review pitfalls including recency bias, vague or speculative feedback, halo and horns effects, one-sided tone, and ratings that conflict with written comments — helping managers write feedback that's specific, balanced, and fair.
Is coaching part of PerformYard Development?
Yes. Coaching is a capability within PerformYard's Development product, built on top of the core performance platform. Because it draws on your existing reviews, goals, meetings, and feedback, it delivers coaching that's grounded in each employee's real performance.
How is coaching software different from a performance review tool?
A review tool records evaluations. Coaching software acts on them — telling managers where to focus, preparing them for conversations, and improving how they give feedback. PerformYard combines both, so the review data managers collect directly powers the coaching they deliver.
