Performance management your managers will actually use.
Access HR builds performance management frameworks for agencies and scaling businesses: clear expectations, regular conversations and a fair process for underperformance, designed so managers can run it consistently.
What is performance management?
Performance management is the system a business uses to set expectations, give feedback, review progress and address underperformance. Done well, it's regular conversations backed by a simple framework, not an annual form.
A performance framework built for growth.
Objectives
Goal-setting linked to team and business priorities.
Review rhythm
1:1 and review cadence, with simple templates.
Fair process
A clear, fair route for addressing underperformance early.
Manager guidance
Managers briefed and equipped to run it, and your HR system set up to support it.
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What is a performance management framework?
It's the structure behind how performance is managed: how objectives are set, how often conversations happen, how performance is reviewed, and what happens when someone isn't meeting expectations.
Should we get rid of annual reviews?
Not necessarily. Most growing businesses get better results from regular 1:1s and lighter quarterly check-ins, with an annual review that summarises rather than surprises.
How should underperformance be handled?
Early, clearly and fairly: set expectations, give support and time to improve, document conversations, and follow a consistent process. We train managers to do this well.
Make performance everyone's clear expectation.
Delivered through fractional HR or as a project for in-house HR teams.