Performance Management - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

TalentGuard’s Performance Management solution was designed to help small to medium-sized organizations effectively lead, manage, develop, assess, and reward employees. The platform provides basic employee evaluations, as well as robust programs that include competency evaluations, role-based skills, development goals, and corporate objectives.

TalentGuard’s assessment management features allow users to create customized assessments for performance, behaviors, career and succession paths, job responsibilities, and development plans. Performance snapshots capture performance at a set interval throughout the year, (i.e. monthly or quarterly), and provide an automatically generated overall performance score / rating. Rating scales can be customized to fit specific organizational requirements.

Development planning features allow users to create and manage employee development plans based on career aspirations and/or particular competencies that may need development. Plans can include required education, training, certification(s) and more, and can be linked directly to courses in TalentGuard’s learning management system. Users can also build step-by-step corrective action plans that can monitored by the manager and the employee, including coaches or mentors.

Performance Management helps organizations establish cascading goals that align with departments, teams and individuals. Managers can monitor team goals from a single dashboard, employees can add their own goals, and SMART metrics can be applied to help track progress, results, and other activity. The platform supports a variety of methods to assess the goal achievement including numeric ratings, descriptive indicators color scales, descriptors and/or written feedback.