| Saba Performance Suite
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Proactive Performance Management With
Saba Performance
To achieve your organizational goals, it is critical that your entire team stays focused on your business strategies. True performance improvement requires proactive alignment of individual employee and group productivity with overall corporate goals and objectives. Saba Performance gives you real-time views into your organization's progress against goals and plans, allowing you to easily make adjustments to respond to changing requirements.
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Ensure the workforce is focused on the right activities |
- Saba’s innovative “My Success Plan” can be used to prioritize key goals and competencies, as well as targeted learning when used in conjunction with Saba Learning
- Clear line of sight gives employees context
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| Provides visibility into performance execution |
- Configurable plan approval or acknowledgement notifications keep performance expectations clear
- “Saba Where You Work" interactive emails enable goal progress reporting via email
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Proactively drive performance improvement |
- Analyze performance and competency gaps, and generate a plan of action
- Link goals and objectives directly to required skills and activities
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| Users get a clear line of sight into how their goal contributes to others' success. |
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Saba Performance Reviews
The ability to make and support personnel decisions can be severely hampered by the lack of consistent and automated performance measurement processes. Saba Performance Reviews establishes a strategic, relevant performance review process. Multiple raters can provide feedback on individualized goals and competencies to improve the speed, quality, and relevance of performance feedback.
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| Reduce the risks and costs associated with a manual review process |
- On-time reviews eliminate expensive retro pay, and automated notifications and manager writing tools enable more timely feedback
- Clearly documented and well-supported performance results reduce risk
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| Increase employee engagement and satisfaction through relevant performance feedback |
- Personalized reviews based on clear performance expectations improve relevance
- Multi-rater feedback lessens the risk of bias
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| Improve the quality and consistency of performance measurement across the organization |
- Embedded reporting allows easy monitoring of review progress, status, and ratings distribution
- Modeling capabilities and visibility into in-progress scores provide unique calibration support
- Extensible 9-box analysis tool provides additional insight
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| See milestone views for managers and individuals that keep review cycles on track |
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Expertise Identification and Assessment
Effective career development and talent planning cannot be done in a vacuum; it requires an understanding of the key skills, competencies, and expertise your workforce possesses. The Saba Foundation provides a unified platform to manage key people management capabilities -- such as competency assessment, expertise location, career management, development planning, and job and role definition -- across our platform.
These capabilities provide a common currency to discuss and measure talent consistently. With Saba’s competency management capabilities, organizations are able to define the key skills and capabilities required of the workforce, and communicate these requirements to individuals and teams. Effective career planning is enabled via the ability to designate career interests on individual profiles and perform gap analyses against these interests.
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| Consistently measure competency proficiency |
- Perform competency-based or questionnaire-based assessments to determine proficiency in key skills and competencies
- Ensure consistent, balanced feedback with self, manager, or multi-rater (360º) assessments
- Rate individual competencies or their underlying behaviors for more consistent ratings and builds knowledge and community
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| Easily locate expertise across the organization |
- Identify and contact competency experts for knowledge transfer and mentoring
- Find expertise side-by-side with other formal and informal knowledge assets in Knowledge Center searches
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| Increase employee engagement and retention via career planning |
- Provide individuals with access to designated career paths
- Enable individuals to view the job and competency requirements of various positions and self select career interests
- Enable individuals and managers to analyze competency gaps and access learning recommendations specifically designed to fill those gaps
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| Enable faster deployment of new performance, development, or talent processes |
- Quickly populate in-house developed or third-party competency content via Saba’s import capabilities
- Utilize the option to deploy the PDI Performance Framework, Saba Edition, to kick-start competency management efforts
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| See how employees track assigned competencies, such as “Strategic Thinking,” on their Success Plans |
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Extend Performance Management to Informal People Processes With Saba Social
Informal contributions are at the core of how work gets done in organizations, but they are rarely visible to management or considered during performance reviews and other formal people processes. Saba Social gives organizations an unprecedented level of knowledge about their talent, which translates into better agility to respond to a changing business environment. Management can look at who are the most valuable contributors and where knowledge lies. HR executives have new insight into the value and potential of their workforce, providing new ways to identify star performers who should be rewarded and new ways to groom future leaders.
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Innovate faster by tapping into “hidden” experts throughout the enterprise |
- Rich people profiles
- Form connections to trusted advisors throughout the enterprise
- Easy-to-use tools for knowledge contribution
- One-click publishing of Saba Centra recordings
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Attract and retain the best talent |
- Create the connected corporate community in which people want to work
- Give workers a comprehensive set of social software tools to find the answers they need: blogs, wikis, discussion boards, social network management
- Embedded real-time collaboration, including presence and Web conferencing
- Communities of practice automatically created around job functions, cross-functional initiatives, required skills, and more
- Visibility into the community-assessed value of informal contributions
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Design performance processes to take into account the full picture of employee performance |
- Find and reward the most valuable informal contributors
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Groom the right future leaders and valuable professionals |
- Unified user profile that incorporates information captured from formal and informal people processes
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Validate expertise |
- Tap into the information that’s already available through competency frameworks and certification programs
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Drive higher productivity |
- Leverage all of the rich information available about your people: skills, job experience, education, and interests
- Robust search capabilities aggregate formal and informal knowledge assets and experts
- Embedded real-time collaboration, including presence and Web conferencing
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