Develop and motivate your talent base with SilkRoad's full-featured employee performance management software!

Make a direct connection between employee performance and compensation to create a culture where your top performers are motivated and excited about their contributions. Centralize ongoing performance data and give your employees a clear line of site between their contributions and the company goals.

Assessments
  • Multi-rater (360 degree) assessments and peer assessments are some of the many configurable automated workflow options
  • Skills and behaviors measured against professional standards
  • Includes a library of industry-validated competency models built from 400 validated competency models, over 2,000 individual competences and more than  10,000 observable behaviors
  • Create and launch an unlimited number of unique assessments
  • Includes comprehensive reporting and data analysis capabilities to support succession planning, job/person matching, career planning and employee training

Competency Management
  • Competency Dictionary and Model Library are comprised of key topics, definitions, and appropriate supporting behavioral indicators (400 validated models, 2000+ competencies, and 10,000+ observable behaviors)
  • Tested and validated competencies divided into core,
  • Competency models are organized by level, industry, function, etc. leadership (by career band), and functional groupings

Automated Employee Appraisals
  • Serve up historical data to both the individual and the manager at the time of the review so all parties can see information about goals, assessments, appraisals, development plans, and other performance metrics
  • Managers can leverage the Writing Assistant to consistently make comments about observable behaviors and competencies for their employees
  • Utilize existing rating skills or build new scales fore appraisals
  • Schedule reviews for different parts of the organization differently

Development Planning
  • Create and manage personalized development plans
  • Each individual has their own development plan
  • Map competency models to individual development activities so that competency assessments directly impact development plans
  • Supports approval requirement process for activities that incur costs
  • Includes a library of over 17,000 learning activities (mentors, books, courses, tapes or other specific activities)
  • Import development activities from any learning management system, including SilkRoad's learning management system, any 3rd party vendor library, as well as any internal courses/seminars offered

Goal Management
  • Built-in intelligence facilitates S.M.A.R.T. goals that can be weighted and scored
  • Managers can assign goals to individuals or to multiple team members in a single batch process
  • Allow manager to assign goals allowing team members to negotiate the goal targets or prescribe goals with exiting goal targets
  • Cascade goals  down to individuals and groups giving everyone a clear line of sight between their own contributions and the company goals
  • Set and manage individual and team goals that can be negotiated while maintaining alignment with corporate objectives
  • Managers and executives can view aggregated goal results and progress reports

Succession Planning
  • Succession planners can see all potential candidates and their relative readiness for specific positions
  • Search for potential talented candidates and add them to a succession plan
  • Side-by-side candidate comparison reporting
  • Launch development plans or prescribe development activities to individuals or pools of candidates from the succession planning screen

Compensation Management
  • Manage the distribution of merit increases, stock incentives, bonuses, equity pools and spot awards
  • Based on performance reviews, goal attainment and any other requirements
  • Budget compliance enforced by business rules
  • Include the use of salary matrix info, 3rd party salary ratios, salary bands, and other compensation metrics when allocating compensation
  • Provide managers individual allocation guidelines based on the individual appraisal results and their place in the existing salary range

  • Establish automated workflows unique to any organization
  • Easily create forms for various needs using templates or from a Microsoft Word template provided by SilkRoad technology
  • Configurable user interface
  • Integrates with SilkRoad's Life Suite and other HR systems via consumable Web Services
  • 100% browser-based, accessible from any computer with Internet access running Internet Explorer.
  • Simple, streamlined user interfaced coupled with page-by-page instructions
  • Every user will have the ability to see a personalized view of the EPM system, depending on their role and assigned permissions
  • Dashboard stats view of all ongoing processes for HR managers, administrators, and business unit managers
  • Integrates with HRIS, payroll and LMS systems via consumable Web Services


  • Far more than a positive support call or implementation process, SilkRoad is an extension of your organization
  • Friendly, 24/7, 365-day customer care availability
  • We promise to help you take full advantage of your investment


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