SAP SuccessFactors: Performance & Goals
Effectively managing employee performance has never been more critical. Your organization faces fierce competition and limited budgets, and must execute with razor-sharp focus or be left behind.
To succeed, you need a workforce that clearly understands the strategic business objectives and can quickly adjust course as business needs evolve. the SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals soution helps your organization ensure strategy and goal alignment, continuously improve workforce performance through ongoing coaching and feedback, and accurately evaluate and recognize top talent.
Drive success with a workforce that clearly understands your strategic business objectives and quickly adjusts course as business needs evolve.
Powerful Goal Management
- Develop goals instantly with recommendations from the Goal Library of more than 500 SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) goals
- Cascade goals and continuously update employee effort, success probability, and comments with features like Mobile Goal Management
- Give managers more control over goal execution with the ability to set cascading goals and see individual, team, or company-wide progress
Features like Mobile Goal Management let you cascade goals, continuously update comments, success probability, and employee effort


Continuous Performance Management
Now you can stimulate more continuous dialogue and feedback between managers and employees, helping them have more structured conversations about how to align and improve performance.
Employees
- Keep managers up to date on activities they are working on specific to goals, what their priorities are and the progress they are making
- Request and share real-time feedback from peers on achievements
- Capture live summary of achievements to discuss during one-on-ones and more easily prepare for the more formal performance assessment
Managers
- Track team’s progress against goals, ensure they are working on what matters, and easily provide actionable feedback
- Access activities, achievements and feedback to hold more effective performance check-ins when meeting face-to-face with employees
- Share simple coaching, placing emphasis on what employees have done well and what they can do to improve their future performance
HR Leaders
- Track how often one-on-ones happen in your organization, and remind employees and managers to not forget to hold them regularly
With Continuous Performance Management, request and share real-time feedback from peers on achievements


Accurate Performance Assessments
- Get better quality reviews, promote faster user adoption, and increase completion rates with a simple and engaging experience for everyone
- Capture a more balanced and complete view of employee performance with “Ask for Feedback” and 360 Reviews
- Eliminate writer’s block and provide more meaningful feedback with Writing Assistant and Coaching Advisor
- Identify top and bottom performers based on their individual competencies with Team Rater and Team Overview
- Reduce risk of using inappropriate language in reviews with Legal Scan
- Ensure objective, fact-based decisions around performance and compensation with Calibration
Performance review forms display a comprehensive performance summary showing the feedback captured on achievements

