Using Continuous Performance Management to Increase Work Performance

The primary features associated with Continuous Performance Management include:

• Employee Activities

  • Create activities and add attachments on activities to instantly record employee efforts and provide visibility to what they are working on.

  • Display employee achievements in real-time, using the Achievements view.

  • Request feedback from and give feedback to other employees as well as monitor the status of feedback requests.

  • Link activities directly to performance goals and development goals and view them in the Performance Review form.

  • View activities grouped by time or goal.

• Meetings
  • Structure 1:1 meetings with manager and employees and open additional channels to involve other roles in the process, using Multiple Role Support.

  • Create topics for discussion between manager and employee.

  • Capture meeting discussions and track content of meeting in meeting history.

  • Configure status labels and icon colors for Activity and Topic.

  • Access feature via the web and on mobile application (iOS and Android).

Most of the actions in Continuous Performance Management are performed in the Activities view. You can easily track your work and that of your direct reports by:

• Creating and monitoring activities

• Assigning an appropriate status to the activities

• Linking the activities to performance goals and development goals

• Adding updates to activities

Watch this video to learn more about the Activities View.

Users can add attachments to activities and provide additional context or demonstrate work done in association with an activity. This feature, called Enable Attachments on Activities must be turned on from Continuous Performance Management Configuration.

Permissions Associated with Attachments

To grant permission to upload and download attachments, select Activity → Visibility: View and Action: Edit in Manage Permission Roles → User Permission → Continuous Performance Management

To grant permission to only download attachments, select Activity → Visibility: View in Manage Permission Roles → User Permission → Continuous Performance Management.

Note

A maximum of five attachments per activity are allowed. Allocations for file size and storage are defined in document management services in Provisioning. Several file types, like PDF, DOC, JPG, PPT, TXT are supported. For additional information, you can check the Using Continuous Performance Management guide in the SAP Help Portal.

Watch this video to learn how to request feedback on activities. 

Watch this video to learn more about the Meeting view in Continuous Performance Management. 

The Achievements view captures the accomplishments that managers and employees have achieved in the work place. Traditionally employees have had to wait until the end of the year to record all they have accomplished to justify a request for a merit increase or promotion.

This view allows managers and employees to display all achievements in real-time, drill down into achievement details to check for linked goals and feedback received for the activities that were turned into achievements, and create new achievements that will also create an activity under the same name and will be available from the Activities view.

Watch this video to learn more about the Achievements view.