10 reasons not to use a Performance Management System

Published December 11th, 2007

At Driven Systems we know why you should be using a Performance Management System. However, have you ever considered why you would choose not to?

You want your churn rate go through the roof

The truth is that the norm means you are no different from your competitors, no better, probably worse, bland and forgetable.

• Why spend time training your workforce to do a better job?
• Creating a productive and happy workforce is not possible
• Why nuture their talents?
• Why give them incentives to stay?
• Your churn rates are high, but that’s normal, right?

The best way to keep that churn rate at a nice high number is to not listen to your workforce.

You don’t want your workforce to learn, grow and perform

Investing in people is a waste of time. The training versus retaining costs too much. It’s much better to be cost effective and get the cheapest labour possible. It’s okay if your people leave every 6 months, that’s what training is for, right?

You want your competitors to head hunt your best talent

Google, LinkedIn, FaceBook are just a few examples of how the internet has made it all too easy for your competitors to find your talent. There is absolutely nothing stopping someone else contacting your best talent - the people that you have spent precious time and money nuturing.

Have you given your people great reasons to stay? No? Perhaps it would be a good idea to stick Employee For Sale signs up (or speak to a friendly person who could help).

You don’t really want your business to be successful

Your business is doing fine at the moment. The people at the top are doing a grand job. You can deal with it when it is time to find their successors. Really. You’ve got it all in hand. Just post a job ad and bingo, problem solved.

You want to maintain an expensive paper driven system

You’ve had a paper based solution since the company started. It may be slow and expensive, but you believe it works as well as it could. Handwritten or Word document files get locked away and forgotten. There’s no way for the information to communicate. Informed decisions cannot be made. It’s all great!

You believe technology can’t solve your problems

Sticking to something familiar is easy even if it means it is no longer effective. Change is everything and this doesn’t just apply to technology. If you fail to adopt new ways of working, you risk losing out. But you’re fine with that, right?

Excellent support is a myth

Everyone talks about bad support experiences:

• waiting on hold for too long
• wrong recommendations and fixes
• difficult communication
• apologetic support staff
• predicatable support scripts that society is now accustomed to.

You feel this is a good excuse to not implement a technology. Surely all Performance Management services are the same?

Perhaps you should test drive the Driven experience?

You want to waste your valuable time

Performance Management Systems include some great time saving features:

• automated workflow
• online access
• automated notifications (emails)
• built in writing assistants
• 360 degree automation
• access to complete data, quickly.

It’s so much easier for you (although not any of your employees) to keep trotting along doing things in the same old slow and inefficient way.

As a business you do not want to improve your bottom line

Falling moneyA Performance Management System can save your organisation cash, dinero, moolah. Yes, money:

• increased productivity
• improved employee retention
• compensation optimisation
• cost effective training

Saving lots of money is definitely not a good reason to consider a Performance Management System. There must be some sort of trick or a con. (Guess again …)

You don’t want a Performance Management System to be implemented in weeks

A Performance Management System can be implemented in weeks, in your own environment or in a secure external (hosted ondemand) location. It’s too easy to let the professionals do the hard work while you sit back in awe and amazement.

It’s so much easier for you (not anyone else) to keep trotting along doing things in the same old slow and inefficient way.

There is another way…

Get performing quickly and with style, let the experts show you how easy it could be.

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