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PerformYard

Starting at $5 per month per employee
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What is PerformYard?

PerformYard, headquartered in Arlington, VA, providesperformance management software aimed at providing features for HR and a simple employee experience. It offers HR teams tools to build out any performance management strategy so employees get a streamlined experience so they can…

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10 out of 10
February 07, 2024
We are using PerformYard as an application for our Company's employees setup goals, share ideas and achieve overall success with optimal …
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PerformYard

8 out of 10
January 12, 2024
Perform Yard allows our organization to communicate with others across the company. It allows us to leave positive comments and shout out …
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PerformYard is the way to go!

10 out of 10
December 18, 2023
I use PerformYard to carefully review and monitor my staff. Monitoring and setting goals as well as implementing new strategies to reach …
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TrustRadius Insights

PerformYard is a versatile performance management software that offers a range of features to enhance communication and collaboration …
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Yes to PerformYard!

10 out of 10
November 25, 2023
Incentivized
We use it for self-evaluations and for performance reviews by our employers. Within my scope as an employee, I am able to write a …
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Super Easy to Use!

10 out of 10
February 14, 2023
Incentivized
PerformYard is used to create our yearly reviews. This includes our goals and thoughts throughout the year. It is extremely helpful in …
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Professional

$5-$10

Cloud
per month per employee

Enterprise

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $5 per month per employee
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Product Details

What is PerformYard?

PerformYard is an employee performance toolkit offering performance reviews, check-ins, goal management, continuous feedback, and engagement surveys. PerformYard helps organization to continuously improve and develop a high-performance culture.


PerformYard’s performance management workflows, engagement tools, and data dashboards help users take the tactical actions necessary to get the best version of an organization's people. The platform creates a natural feedback loop. Its engagement surveys inform strategy and the platform is designed to evolves as the user's strategy does.


Performance


PerformYard’s performance management toolkit streamlines the process, bringing review cycles, goals, feedback, and performance data analysis into one platform.


Engagement


PerformYard Engagement gives users anonymous engagement surveys and visual data to build a strong culture of energized, productive employees.


Flexibility


PerformYard helps users build a unique performance feedback loop for the company culture with a feature set that can accommodate the needs of every kind of organization.


Simplicity


PerformYard supports HR, managers, and employees with a centralized platform for performance and feedback. Notifications and automation capture performance data in the platform with detailed reporting.


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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

PerformYard, headquartered in Arlington, VA, providesperformance management software aimed at providing features for HR and a simple employee experience. It offers HR teams tools to build out any performance management strategy so employees get a streamlined experience so they can focus on quality feedback and effective performance discussions.

PerformYard starts at $5.

Lattice, 15Five, and Culture Amp are common alternatives for PerformYard.

Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of PerformYard are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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PerformYard is a versatile performance management software that offers a range of features to enhance communication and collaboration between employees and managers. Users have found the platform to be invaluable for conducting various types of reviews, including 1-on-1s, quarterly and annual performance reviews, and 360-degree evaluations. By streamlining these processes, PerformYard simplifies scheduling, feedback gathering, and goal tracking.

One of the standout benefits of PerformYard is its ability to facilitate ongoing dialogue between managers and employees. This promotes a performance development model that focuses on continuous improvement and goal achievement. Users appreciate the user-friendly interface that allows them to easily track their personal goals, review progress updates, and provide feedback to their managers.

In addition to individual goal management, PerformYard also supports organizational alignment and synergy. It enables departments and the entire company to manage goals effectively, thus boosting morale and fostering collaborative work environments. Furthermore, the software assists in capturing and notating important data, resources, and experiences to maintain priorities and align the organization's objectives.

By offering a comprehensive solution for performance management and goal tracking, PerformYard helps organizations enhance transparency and maintain hierarchical integrity. Managers can stay updated on their team members' progress and challenges, ensuring that everyone is measured on the same scale. The platform also facilitates self-performance management by providing employees with opportunities for self-appraisal, feedback collection from multiple managers, and half-yearly or annual performance reviews.

PerformYard plays a pivotal role in staff evaluation processes by enabling organizations to conduct efficient performance appraisals, track employee progress towards goals in a neutral location, acknowledge achievements, address areas for improvement, and understand career aspirations. Moreover, the software aids HR departments in efficiently managing tasks related to employee recognition programs, goal setting across teams or individuals, maintaining HR-related records, conducting surveys for engagement purposes, tracking employee anniversaries, and more.

The platform empowers users with tools to create, track, and evaluate goals effectively, while also facilitating communication and feedback exchange between project managers and coworkers. In addition to helping users with large-scale yearly goals, PerformYard provides a graph feature that visually represents progress. This allows for in-depth discussions about performance and alignment with standards.

PerformYard's framework is particularly useful for talent reviews, enabling HR professionals to organize and follow up on these assessments seamlessly. Its functionality extends to addressing training needs, discussing roadblocks, assessing tasks and achievements, reviewing company and personal goals, determining goal completeness, and discussing open points or work in progress. By providing a clear structure and framework for these activities, PerformYard ensures that organizations can effectively evaluate their talent and provide the necessary support for growth and development.

PerformYard is also highly regarded for its ability to improve communication between employees and managers. This is achieved through features such as self-evaluations, employer evaluations, and the ability to compare job performance ratings. Users appreciate the opportunity to have in-depth discussions about performance, meet standards, and address any areas of improvement.

Furthermore, PerformYard serves as a valuable tool for tracking performance reviews on a monthly and yearly basis. It allows users to review the backlog of activities, complete scenarios, and track progress towards achieving goals. The software simplifies the process of reviewing performance and ensures that all relevant information is readily available.

For daily work activities, PerformYard is widely used within organizations to keep up with supervisions on a monthly and yearly basis. This helps maintain regular check-ins and supports ongoing development conversations between employees and managers.

In summary, PerformYard offers a range of valuable use cases for improving performance management within organizations. From conducting various types of reviews to facilitating ongoing dialogue between employees and managers, managing individual and organizational goals, providing tools for self-performance management, enabling efficient staff evaluations, promoting communication and feedback exchange, tracking performance reviews, and supporting talent reviews — this platform has proven to be an essential tool for enhancing performance and achieving organizational objectives.

Users have made several recommendations regarding PerformYard based on their experiences. The three most common recommendations are as follows:

  1. Users highly recommend trying PerformYard before purchasing and implementing it within their organizations. They have found it to be user-friendly and efficient, requiring minimal change management. Many users praise PerformYard's customer service team for their responsiveness and helpfulness.

  2. Users suggest involving the individual who will manage reviews from the beginning to ensure a seamless process. They also recommend working with managers to ensure that the tool meets their specific needs and requirements. This collaborative approach helps in achieving successful implementation and utilization of PerformYard.

  3. Many users highly recommend PerformYard for its comprehensive features, tracking employee performance, efficient employee appraisals, and goal tracking and feedback capabilities. They find it to be a significant improvement over individualized document tracking systems and other performance management platforms. Some users also suggest integrating rubrics into PerformYard to enhance the assessment process further.

Keep in mind that these recommendations are based on user experiences and may vary depending on specific organizational needs or preferences. It is important to evaluate at least three platforms, schedule demos, and gather customer feedback to make an informed decision when considering PerformYard or similar tools for performance management in your organization.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use PerformYard to create and track employee goals. We also utilize it to give recognition to employees. It is extremely useful to keep up on employee anniversaries. My favorite thing about this platform is the ability for employee reviews. I love that the employee also does a self review, alongside the managers. The ability to track productivity and maintain open communication is wonderful!
  • Recognition
  • Accountability
  • Goal tracking
  • The goals function can be a little tricky. I have a goal of zero, which looks like it is incomplete.
In a thriving cannabis industry, there are multiple working parts. Having one platform that all departments can utilize, is priceless! Different departments can seem somewhat unconnected, this brings us all to one place. From a human resources standpoint, this is a game changer! We had multiple spreadsheets to track employees, and PerformYard has put it all in one nice neat little package that is easy to navigate.
  • This has saved labor hours.
Jennifer Boyd, SHRM-SCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company adopted PerformYard to solve the long standing problem of inefficiency with Performance Management. Our old process was a manual paper process that presented several problems but the main being: Bottleneck of routing for the paper reviews, and the cumbersome process to track reviews and execute them to the authors.
  • Customer Service! The service support is unmatched compared to other vendors! Our rep is nothing short of amazing with her timeliness, helpfulness, and ability to navigate the issues we encounter!
  • Streamlining automated reviews - Effortlessly send out a whole years reviews in one sitting!
  • Auto updating from our HRIS system - Automated SFTP integration with our HRIS system to auto update employee fields and keep the system up to date with less manual process!
  • I would like to see there be more functionality and customization with groups and review assignments
  • Reports are a bit hard to get at first, more easy on demand reports would be helpful
PerformYard, in my opinion, is well suited for any environment where performance management is actively happening. We are in the manufacturing industry and many people here thought that this type of electronic process would never be accepted or adopted. Today we have FULL participation and buy in from all those people and more! This software has revolutionized our ability to perform reviews, efficiency to get them done and delivered to the employee, and taken the burden off HR of having to juggle getting these out to authors every month manually.
  • PerformYard has had a positive impact on our business objectives as we can allocate more time to other items that we used to spend on Performance Management with that being automated and electronic
  • HR is able to have more productive conversations with managers about performance management without having to worry about discussing the process of it (routing, issues etc.) Our conversations with management are now geared towards how can they improve their performance management of their employees and how they can give better feedback
We demoed Trakstar Performance Management Software when we were initially looking for this type of program. PerformYard overall just had more options and a better user feel to their system. The service from the reps who worked with us in the beginning also was a big selling point as to why we went with PerformYard.
40
All levels of employees use PerformYard at our organization. Shop floor employees, administration employees, foremen, management and executives.
1
Myself, one person, supports all the users and employees who access PerformYard in different capacities. With good training from the start, there is not much support needed once you get into the groove of it.
  • Transparency of review to all parties when complete
  • Automated routing of reviews so no bottlenecking
  • Collaboration of authors and signers so all parties are able to provide content for reviews
  • We are currently building out a One to One meeting process with electronic forms through PerformYard to help bolster that engagement piece with employees
  • Storage and access of past reviews - No more searching paper personnel files!
  • One to One Program
  • 360 Reviews
  • More self reviewing for employees
This system has been incredibly helpful for our efficiency, quality and people goals for the last 2 years.
The support from PerformYard is unmatched when compared to other systems I have worked with. Not to say that the support personnel always have an immediate answer, but they are so committed to solution and timeliness that it is not long before we are able to work through any issues. Emails are quickly returned for ease of access, and they never fail to offer to hop on a call and visually walk through something if that may help the issue!
We did not purchase premium support because of cost.
No
In our building out of our SFTP integration with our HRIS system for automatic updating the SFTP file grabbed the wrong field from the HRIS system and caused MANY things to go out of whack in PerformYard when the changes were processed. Upon getting to the office Monday morning (the file processes on Sunday evenings) I saw the issue and emailed our rep right away. She called and we were QUICKLY able to revert the changes, put the SFTP file back in testing mode so we could monitor it more, and the system was back into the same spot as we needed it to be.

Our rep then coordinated with our HRIS system rep and cleared up the issue that caused it and now the process runs smoothly with little to no interaction from us.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use PerformYard to track employee goals and yearly reviews. The company's various managers use PerformYard to track the goals for members of their teams as well as self/manager evaluations for yearly reviews. In each case, I also log in to participate in the goal tracking, filling out the self-performance review as well as reviewing my manager's performance review of myself. We do all of this in PerformYard.
  • Great user interface
  • Very simple layout but lots of options and features if needed
  • Very customizable to fit company's need(s)
  • Would love to see an integration of PerformYard tools with MS Source Control (visual Studio)
  • Integration with DevOps (goals, etc)
In a larger group structure, when there are multiple teams, PerformYard really shines, helping organize productivity and tracking of things. However, I have worked in very small teams, with just a few people total, and in that case I would think that PerfomYard would have less of a positive effect.
  • Almost 100% reduction in time for tracking goals
  • Elimination of need for some meetings (ROI on time management!)
  • Employees know where they stand - Morale boost!
1000
Our company is a vertical with many child companies, but we all use PerformYard - all employees use it and all the management system. Therefore, all business functions within the company are using PerformYard - engineers, managers, IT specialists, sales people, etc.
PerformYard is easy to use and we do not need any inhouse support.
  • Goals
  • Reviews
  • Feedback
  • Documents
  • Using reviews so that Employees can self evaluate and then compare with manager's selections
  • Integrate more into other software we use; ie DevOps
I love using PerformYard. It is simple, easy to understand and use, and does the job perfectly.
This is one of the best features of PerformYard - it is extremely easy to use and intuitive. There was no learning curve. This is what is so phenomenal about PerformYard. Their layout, while offering so many features, is extremely simple.
  • Goals
  • Reviews
  • Feedback
  • Document tracking
  • Dashboard
  • PerformYard does not have any difficult or cumbersome functions that I have come across!
Gabriel Valdez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use PerformYard to manage our goals for our individual departments as well as the company as a whole. We will be rolling out regular use of this early next year. Our current usage of PerformYard is to give shoutouts to our employees who go above and beyond the call of duty, those are are cool, nice, friendly, or just deserve some kind words of appraisal. It is a great way to boost morale and synergy between co-workers!
  • Allows company to acknowledge the extra effort employees put in
  • Allows us to manage and track our goals
  • Allows us to have a better idea of where our resources need to be allocated to meet future goals
  • Have the option to stay signed in or have a "remember me" button. Having to manually enter in all credentials every time is a little tedious.
  • The option to create your own to-dos would be helpful for self management as well as tracking things that don't need to be considered a goal.
  • Give us the option to have more in depth creation of goals, such as allows us to to hit a combined sum of things in order to reach a goal. IE, handle 500 total assets across 3 different methods, but instead of needing to reach a certain number in each field, we just need to have the total sum of 500.
So far, PerformYard has been an excellent tool used to give feedback to our employees as well as our employers as well. It makes the process simple, and the fact you can do it whenever means that the recipient of the feedback can go over it whenever they have free time. No need for interruptions! This has been great for keeping clear, more specific communications with people in such a way that our bosses and employees can all easily see in one place.
  • Keeping our sites on goals has helped up achieve better productivity
  • Giving ourselves goals has also create a clear path to company advancement
  • Having a tangible target for where we should be at with our overall productivity has also helped us figure out ways to more efficiently use our time on other things
I have not personally used a product like PerformYard before.
Jamie Gildersleeve | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PerformYard has allowed Mascaro to transition to a performance development model, focused on the ongoing dialogue between manager/employee, in addition to goal development & achievement. We needed a platform that enabled our users to integrate performance into their routine, capture weekly, monthly or quarterly updates as it relates to progress towards goals, and infuse a sense of ease into all processes.
  • Platform build and implementation were a breeze thanks to our customer success manager; he was accessible, responsive, and hands-on throughout the entire process. As a one-member HR department, this was necessary for its success.
  • The platform is laid out in an organized and aesthetically pleasing way. Many platforms have so many buttons and items clogging up the white space; this platform does not.
  • Goal Management - goals can be set at review time or independently, and are accessible in between review cycles. It's fantastic and allows managers or employees to update as frequently as they like, specific to progress and completion.
  • We would love to be able to build a form to replace a paper log of all development items our employees are responsible for completing. If we could digitize this form, within our performance platform - PerformYard would truly be a one-stop-shop.
  • The feedback function is great! However, take it a step further and allow the tracking of points given by managers for a job well done (almost like a recognition program)
  • We like the org chart function, but different layouts would be great! Printable too.
PerformYard has worked well with our population and the needs of our employees in the construction industry. There's a simplicity to the system; however, it has the bells and whistles needed to facilitate the review process and goal management requirements of the size of the company. Administratively, it has provided increased efficiency in creating and closing cycles, creating new forms, and editing old ones.
  • Increased focus on performance management and goal development, achievement
  • Worth the investment, compared to previous program
  • Ease of administration for one person HR Department
There was no comparison for us between Viewpoint, birddoghr, and PerformYard. Where these two systems lacked reporting functionality, administrative ease, and ongoing goal management - PerformYard really focused on these three. The sales team dove into each of these areas and was able to demonstrate how this worked for other teams and how it would work for ours. We didn't need the full HR suite, only a performance platform, so that is why we did not choose BambooHR.
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