Employee Goal Management Software for How Your Team Works
Say goodbye to goals set at the start of the year and never revisited, or individual goals in spreadsheets disconnected from performance reviews. PerformYard is employee goal management software that keeps goals visible and tied to real outcomes.
Goal Management Built Around Your Review Process
Align Your People
PerformYard's cascading goals link top-level strategy to day-to-day work across teams and departments. Everyone sees how their goals connect to what the organization is working toward.
Check In Frequently
PerformYard connects goals to review cycles, so employees and managers update progress regularly. The gap between setting goals and evaluating them closes.
Formalize Development
Development goal cycles promote ongoing learning and create clear career advancement pathways. Growth becomes a tracked process, not an annual conversation.
PerformYard’s goal setting is integral for our organization as we move towards vision setting and more long-term goals for individual departments and people.
I love the ability for both employees and managers to be able to collaborate on goal setting and update goals throughout the year. PerformYard has helped us establish quarterly goal check-ins and enhance our mid-year review process.
PerformYard has allowed our goal-setting and review process to become streamlined and more efficient. This has helped HR stay organized and it has created a better experience for our employees.
In PerformYard, we can make performance and goal achievement streamlined, interactive, and rewarding. Plus, there are points of documentation along the way that create the paper trail performance management needs.
Cascade Goal Setting
PerformYard creates top-down alignment by linking employee goals to team and company objectives. Managers and leaders have real-time visibility into how individual work drives broader success.
Track Individual Progress
Managers monitor goal progress, track updates, and check in throughout the year. Every employee has accountability and support for their objectives built in.
Get Clear Visualizations
PerformYard instantly generates visual reports showing goal progress for individuals, teams, and departments. Performance data becomes easy to understand and act on without pulling data from multiple places.
Connect Goals With Reviews
During performance reviews, PerformYard brings goal progress directly into review forms so managers can comment, score, and evaluate with full context.
AI That Keeps Goal Management Moving
- Managers walk into review conversations with context.
- PerformYard gets rid of HR's admin work and runs repeatable reviews.
- Enjoy a fully custom processes in one easy platform
- Real-world examples produce less biased feedback.
- Suggests language grounded in documented goals.
- Brings in performance data from throughout the year.
- Tracks and summarizes goal progress
- Managers spend less time compiling data.
- Managers have time for the development conversations that matter.
- Managers can identify which employees need attention
- One-to-One meetings flow into goals
- Conversational goal creation reduces clicking around.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is goal management software?
Goal management software helps organizations set, track, and align individual, team, and company goals in one place. It replaces spreadsheets and disconnected systems with a structured process where goals are visible, progress is tracked in real time, and every objective connects to broader organizational priorities.
Why use goal-setting software?
Goal-setting software creates accountability by making goals visible to both managers and employees throughout the year. It reduces the gap between setting goals and evaluating them by keeping progress connected to regular check-ins and performance reviews rather than surfacing only at year-end.
What is the SMART system for goals?
SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. The system framework helps managers and employees create goals with clear expectations and defined timelines. PerformYard supports SMART goal creation and tracks progress against each goal throughout the review cycle.
How can PerformYard’s goal management software help my HR team?
PerformYard gives HR teams a single place to set, track, and evaluate goals across the organization. Cascading goals align individual work to company strategy. Frequent check-ins keep progress visible. Goal data surfaces directly in performance reviews so evaluations reflect real outcomes, not manager recall.
How do I choose the goal management tool that’s right for me?
Look for a goal management tool that connects to your performance review process rather than operating as a standalone system. The best tools make goals visible to both managers and employees year-round, support cascading from company to individual level, and bring goal progress into review conversations automatically.
How does employee goal management software connect to performance reviews?
In PerformYard, goal progress is available directly inside performance review forms. Managers see what each employee was working toward, how far they got, and what changed during the cycle. Reviews become a summary of documented work rather than a reconstruction from memory.
What is the difference between goal management software and OKR software?
OKR software is built for strategy alignment at the organizational level. Goal management software built for HR focuses on individual and team goals, connects them to performance reviews and feedback, and is designed for HR teams managing people processes rather than strategy execution teams managing company objectives.
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 Quality Coach: Detects bias in reviews and flags before submission.
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
