While organizations want to make a profit, they also make sure to be invested in their employees' growth and this involves tracking their performance over a period. That's why, before taking a job, people want to know if an organization is all about the career development and professional health of their employees. 

Tracking the performance of an employee helps the organization to know if an employee has grown even better, professionally, compared to when they just started working. This can be done at intervals like every 3months, 6months or 1year depending on how the company deems it fit. 

However, to make the activity seamless and less overwhelming, there are tools that allow you to get past it without any hassle. If you know about some of them, great! You don't know any? Keep reading! 

Why Track Employee Performance? 

Just like students go to school, write exams, and get their results afterward, it's not any different for employees who put in their skills to work for a company. When employers hire people, it is because they think they can do the work. So, along the line, they need to confirm this, to see if the employee's effort is commensurate with what they projected. Also, employees need to know how they are doing, so they await feedback. The only way to get feedback across to them is to check how they've been doing. This will help employees know how well they have employed their skills, what their strengths are, and what needs to be done better. 

Furthermore, if a company is looking to embark on a project, they need to assess their employees to see if they have skills that can pull off the work. If they find a loophole, they set training in motion and ensure that every concerned employee attends. Several reasons call for the need for employee performance evaluation but the fact remains that every organization must have it in their agenda. 

The Tracking Tools You Need

We already know what tools do; they have features that make the work easier. So, if you have to check your employees' performance, these tools can come to your rescue! 

Base camp

You want to be able to see your employees' progress in 3D? Try Basecamp! It has all of the features you need. Someone dropped a review of how they have used Basecamp for a lot of projects over the last decade and a half and how it has tremendously made work easy and organized for them. 

Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Smaller teams

Price:

$15/user/month

Features: 

• To-dos

• Reminders

• Store, share, and discuss files

• Goal Analytics

• Schedule

• Chats

• Check-ins

• Customer support

• All Access

Devices supported: IOS, Android, Windows 

Side note: You can try it for free on your first download

Trello

There are over 1 million teams using the Trello app and you may want to join. If you have a plan and you're getting people to join you in this project, you can use Trello. It also allows you to track everyone's progress during this period. 

Who can use it? 

• Startups

• Big companies

• Freelancers

• Small teams

Price: 

• Standard - 5 USD/ user/month if billed annually ($6 billed monthly)

• Premium - 10 USD/ user/month if billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly)

• Enterprise - 17.50USD/ user/month if billed annually ($210 billed annually) for 50 persons

Features:

•  Views

• Automation

• Power-Ups

• Templates

• Integrations

 Devices supported: IOS, Android, Windows 

Reflektive

If you are looking to get 100% accountability and real-time feedback on everyone's contribution to a project or job, Reflektive is a really good go-to app. 

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Smaller teams

 Price:

•  Perform - $6/employee/month

• Align - $9/employee/month

 Features: 

• Performance reviews

• Performance Check-ins

• Real-Time Feedback

• Engagement Polls

• One-on-One Coaching

• Goal Analytics 

 Devices supported: IOS, Android, Windows 

Track HR app

TrackHR doesn't just bring everyone together on a platform, it also helps a team to navigate tasks, fix attendance, and tail the performance of each person.

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Smaller teams

Price: Available on request

 Features: 

• Hierarchy

• Location Tracking 

• Reminders

• To-do list

• In-app secure chatting

• Team performance management

 Devices supported: IOS, Android, Windows 

Leapsome

Leapsome is your one-stop shop for everything employee - productivity, engagement, and performance. 99% of customers have enjoyed using it and will tell people to try it out. 

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Big companies

• Smaller teams

 Price:  Available on request

 Features: 

• 360 Degrees reviews

• Goals

• Surveys

• Learning

• Compensation

• Competency Framework

• Instant Framework

 Devices supported: IOS, Android, Desktop/Windows

Trakstar

Trakstar believes that employees have a professional lifecycle and this should be studied. This is why they came up with a tool that gives you access to the development of each employee when you make use of the embedded features. 

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Big companies

• Smaller teams

 Features: 

• Long list of integrations

• Goals

• Reviews

• Organizational Chart

• Report

• Forms

• Employee Dashboard 

• Engagements

• Insight

• Rating Distribution

 Price: You get a quote on request

 Devices supported: IOS, Android, Desktop/Windows

People Box

To effectively track OKR and KPIs, People Box is the tool you need. Razorpay, Exotel, Lightspeed, and 500 other companies have leaned towards using the tool and they find it useful and appealing. 

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Big companies

• Smaller teams

Features: 

• Performance Management

• OKR and business reviews

• Employer Engagement

• Reminders

• Goals check-in

• Integrations

• KPIs board

• Engagement Surveys

• Calibration

• 1- 1 meetings

 Price: 

• Talent Management - $7/month/person (billed annually)

• OKR Platform -  $9/month/person (billed annually)

• Full Suite Professional - $12/month/person (billed annually)

Devices supported: IOS, Android, Desktop/Windows

Engagedly

Engagedly understands that you have a workforce, therefore, it provides a solution that allows you to check their contributions to projects from time to time. 

 Who can use it? 

It works for companies of all sizes. 

 Features: 

• Reviews

• Templates

• Organisational Dashboard

• Team Dashboard

• Reports

• Requests

• Praise wall

• Talent Analytics

• 1:1s

• Check-ins

 Price: Request a plan that suits your organization. 

Devices supported: IOS, Android, Desktop/Windows

Deel

Deel has helped a lot of companies to navigate their HR practices and this includes monitoring the progress of the employees. 

 Who can use it? 

• Freelancers

• Startups

• Big companies

• Smaller teams

Features: 

• Accounting integrations

• Activity Dashboard

• Activity Tracking

• Alerts/Notifications

• Multi-country payroll

• Audit Trail

• Bonus Management

• Benefit Management

• Compliance management

• Compliance Tracking

• Engagement Tracking

• Real-Time Data

• Sick leave Tracking

Price: Request a plan! 

Devices supported: IOS, Android, Desktop/Windows

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