How can a performance appraisal system help me? Surely it's just more work!

If you are a Manager then I’m sure you’ll struggle with the constant battle between achieving your own tasks and being accountable for setting and monitoring the workload of your team. It’s a constant battle, and one that you’ll often feel you’re losing. Throw into the mix a push from HR to implement a new people management process that they say is designed to help, and you may hear that little voice inside your head screaming; how can a performance appraisal system help me – I don’t have time to manage my staff AND do my job!’.

There are some basic principles of people management that no online performance appraisal system can automatically deliver for you (although it can help if it has best practice templates already built in):

Assign the right people to the right roles