Frustrated with performance management and its broken promise. Say hello to Tandem, here to revolutionise performance management into a whole new era!

1. Performance Management
is broken.
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The Problem

2. PwC and Juniper Networks have already
abandoned traditional performance
appraisals—perhaps the most reviled
standard practice in all of management-
and moved toward a model of ongoing
conversation designed to improve skills
and results.
HRB: July-August 2015
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Deloitte claimed to have lost 2
million hours annually discussing
just the outcomes of
performance management
processes
Only 8% of companies have
said that performance
management drives a high level
of value
57% Executives admit that
performance management
doesn’t drive performance or
engagement
80% of millennials want to give
appraisals to their boss!
500 million tweets daily
400 million snapchats daily
100 hours YouTube captured every hour
Feedback at work: once/twice per year…

4. Organisation's pour huge amounts of time,
resources and energy into performance
management systems.
So why then does it cause such high
levels of stress, demotivation and endless
administration?
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Seven root causes of
Performance Management
fatigue:

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Recency bias
Bias towards recent
interactions, not reflective
in the round of a full
year’s performance.
Seven root causes of PM fatigue:

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Seven root causes of PM fatigue:
Countdown
stress pointing
The worry and anxiety
generated on all sides by
Performance Management
in the big build up to one
large detonation.

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Fight or flight
Lack of feedback skills or
tools leads to unintended
provocations and defensiveness
– on both sides of the fence.
Seven root causes of PM fatigue:

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Artificial life
Annual goals and interactions
when real life issues are day-to
day, week-to-week.
Why don’t we work the
way we live?
Seven root causes of PM fatigue:

10. Admin Hoarding
Everything else off the desk for
days and days to review, process
rather than people oriented
Inefficiency, engendering
resentment on all sides.
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Seven root causes of PM fatigue:

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Seven root causes of PM fatigue:
Shield & Show
The manager who
successfully manages up
but is not an effective
communicator or developer of
capacity limits a businesses
internal field of vision.

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Soft Engines
The failure to accurately identify
and reward the connecting,
influencing, and expert value-
creating individuals within a
business.
Seven root causes of PM fatigue:

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Seven root causes of PM fatigue:
Recency bias Countdown
management
Soft Engines
Fight or flight
Artificial life
Admin Hoarding
Shield and Show

14. PeoplePartners
Regular
Constructive
Feedback
The key feature of great
performance management and
the most neglected…
The Key to High Performance Environments:

15. What if we could develop a Performance
Management solution that…
 Provides a growth centric approach to managing performance.
 Drives a rich feedback culture with a more balanced loop between managers and
employees.
 Speaks to the digital nature and iterative behaviour native to the Millennial generation.
 Provides HR with insightful reports on both their leadership capabilities and their top talent
 Brings organisational competencies to life
 Empowers line managers to really manage in real time.
 Facilitates agile goal setting dynamically
 Coaches both leaders and employees to accelerate their skill and development
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17. Tandem is a new performance
management solution that facilitates
easy, effective, and regular
feedback between managers and
teams, to deliver accelerated
growth, improved performance and
enhanced team dynamics.
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Tandem is a breakthrough enabler, building the capability and commitment of
people-managers to provide growth-oriented, performance-enhancing
feedback and development. Using a smartphone enabled interface it facilitates
a flow of interaction using protocols from social media to reduce barriers to
feedback acceptance, and to encourage positive growth-oriented outcomes –
even for remote employees.
It allows companies for the first time to access ongoing comparative measures
of feedback quantity and quality, and provides people-leaders with powerful
insights on their developmental interactions with their reports, objectively
guiding them through improvement suggestions that transform performance.

19. Partnering
for performance
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