Performance

The whole module exists to get one thing right: a manager's review of somebody is invisible to that person until HR deliberately shares it. A half-written review containing hard feedback that its subject can read is a catastrophe for everyone involved.

Who can see a review, exactly

• HR: always, at every status, both the manager review and the self-assessment.
• The reviewer: their own manager review always; the self-assessment only once it has been submitted.
• The subject: their own self-assessment always; the manager review only once it is shared or acknowledged.
• Anyone else: never.

Running a cycle

1. 1Performance → Cycles → New cycle. Pick a template, choose participants, and adjust the reviewer column where the default reporting line is not who should write it.
2. 2Launch creates every review at once, so 'not started' is a real countable state and the progress meter has an honest denominator.
3. 3Share, per person or in bulk, when you are ready for people to read what was written about them.

Goals

Goals are the opposite of reviews: deliberately visible to the employee, their management chain and HR. A goal nobody can see is a private note. Each update is kept, so the history shows how progress actually went rather than only where it ended. Dropped is a neutral outcome — deciding not to pursue something is a legitimate result.