Fundamentals of Performance and Talent Management

Learn the basics of setting up goals, building a review template, administering performance cycles, and more!

Learn how to create and kick-off performance cycles and set up goals and competencies to drive your company's talent management strategy with our customizable Performance Management tools. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Build custom review templates

  • Build and customize your review cycles

  • Track review progress and send reminders

  • Drive employee performance with goals, competencies, and skill tags

PERFORMANCE REVIEW CONFIGURATION 

BUILD PERFORMANCE REVIEWS AND MANAGE REVIEW CYCLES AT NAMELY.

Performance Ratings
Set up and manage your performance ratings for performance reviews.  

Creating Review Templates
Custom build review templates to suit the needs of any review cycle.

Creating a Performance Review Cycle: Basic Info
How to complete the Basic Info page when building a review cycle.

Performance Cycle Types
Review the common use cases for the four different types of review cycles available at Namely.

Selecting Review Templates and Assigning Roles
Select the correct templates and assign roles to the employees within the cycle. 

Employee Roles in Review Cycles
Understand the different roles that employees can hold within a review.

Pulling Goals into a Review Cycle
If you're utilizing the Goals feature, add company goals and individual goals into a performance cycle.

Performance Review Settings
Customize your review cycle's settings. 

Performance Review Notifications
Set up the different types of notifications you'd like to include in your review cycle. 

Kicking off a Performance Review and Assigning Due Dates
Preview your template, assign due dates, add automatic reminders to kick off your review cycle! 

Duplicating a Review Cycle
Want to reuse the same review format each year? Duplicate it!

Roles and Permissions for Performance Management
Review the roles and permissions needed to use Performance Management in Namely.

EMPLOYEE AND MANAGER EXPERIENCE 

INFORMATION ON HOW TO ADMINISTER AND MANAGE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS.

How to Write a Performance Review
Instructions for employees to help them complete a performance review. 

Reviewing Your Performance Reviews
How to read your completed performance reviews. 

Post Kick-Off Adjustments to Performance Review Cycles
Make these last-minute adjustments to a review cycle after you've kicked it off!  

Performance Notes
Track performance notes on employee profiles all year round. 

Navigating the Performance Dashboard: For Admins
An overview of the features on Namely's performance management dashboard for Admins.

Navigating the Performance Dashboard: For Employees
A brief guide to help employees manage performance-related tasks from the Performance Dashboard.

COMPANY SETTINGS FEATURES 

GET THE MOST OUT OF TALENT MANAGEMENT WITH SKILL TAGS AND COMPETENCIES.

Creating and Accessing Skill Tags
How to create, import, and report on skill tags.  

Using Skill Tags: For Employees
Empower your employees to list their skills on their profiles with skill tags!  

Creating and Assigning Competencies
Use competencies to define certain traits you'd expect employees to have and pull them into your Performance Templates

GOALS BASICS

EMPOWER YOUR ORGANIZATION TO SET AND TRACK GOALS!

Creating Goals in Namely
This feature empowers employees, managers, and your HR team to set and track goals for your organization.

Configuring Goal Settings in Namely
Configure the information that is included in individual, team, and company goals. 

Personal Goal Weighting
Learn how to apply a weighted score to personal goals in a performance review.

HRIS Imports: Goals
Add Goal-specific information to employees in bulk.

Creating Goals: For Employees
How to create team and individual goals. 


KNOWLEDGE CHECKS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND REVIEW OUR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO LEARN MORE!

Knowledge Check: Talent Management
Test your knowledge on all things related to Talent Management at Namely! Try to answer these questions before revealing the answer hidden in the collapsed fields. 

Knowledge Check: Goals
Test your knowledge on using Goals! Try to answer these questions before revealing the answer hidden in the collapsed fields. 

Namely Toolkit: Performance Management
Learn everything related to managing performance in Namely. 

Namely Toolkit: Talent Management
Explore and take advantage of our Talent Management features in Namely.