Sonar6 - Performance Management Blog

Sonar6 has made a name for itself as one of the most accessible and user friendly performance review systems available - but that didn’t happen by chance. We spend a huge amount of time researching and refining our interface, and with an audience as diverse as ours, that’s something we can’t afford to get wrong.

In this article Catherine Bircher, Sonar6’s Quality Lead, discusses some of the challenges we face when it comes to designing our UI, and what we’re doing to make Sonar6 v3 easy for everyone to use.

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Sonar6 is working with Sydney-based advisory firm Bendelta as part of a major project that will make it even easier for organisations to get started with online performance management. Over the coming months we’ll be bringing you updates on this exciting initiative.

The first item on the agenda? Analysing the roles that make up today’s workforce.

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While Sonar6 is already recognised as the most user-friendly performance and talent management system on the market, we decided we could make things
better: even more attractive and even easier to use.

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Next time you click the Sonar6 print button you will notice a small but significant change… You now have the option to print an entire report on any individual in your organization.

This can be useful at any point during an appraisal, but particularly at the end of the process when you may want to present findings or to have a hard copy for your files.

We encourage everyone to consider the environment before printing any material - after all with Sonar6’s employee features you can share appraisal information effortlessly on the web - but we also know that sometimes there’s simply no substitute for good old fashioned paper-based reports!

The much anticipated Version 2 of Sonar6 is released. New Performance Management features include:

• Self Assessment. Employees can now have their own input into their review, can view their managers’ ratings of their performance, and build their own development plans online.
• Individual Goals. Specific performance goals can be set by the manager or by the employee themselves.
• HR Tools. New tools are available that help HR departments schedule assessments, report on completion, and automatically email staff.

To understand how to activate these features in your implementation of Sonar6, talk to your Sonar6 representative.

Sonar6 has a clearly stated goal to constantly evolve and improve our products. Feedback from existing clients is vital to our R&D process. Our latest upgrade, Sonar6 v1.2 goes live 12 November. An expanded administration interface and advanced filtering are just two of the new features of this release…