Continuous performance management
- Agents rostered once shrinkage is added
- 117.6
- Workload in the interval, hours
- 35.00
- Agents the raw workload needs
- 70.00
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Continuous performance management replaces one long annual conversation with many short ones, usually a documented check-in every month or six weeks plus a light rating at the year end. The appeal is obvious and the arithmetic is the part nobody does first: twelve check-ins a year for every report is a standing claim on every manager's calendar, and a team of six reports turns that into most of a working day each month. This page is about deciding whether your managers have that time before you promise it to the business.
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Cost a check-in before you schedule twelve
Take the conversation length, add the preparation and the note afterwards, and multiply by reports and by check-ins a year. On a span of six with a forty minute check-in and twenty minutes either side that is about eight hours a month per manager, and eight hours a month is a real number that someone has to give up.
Decide what the check-in has to produce
A check-in with no output is a chat, and chats stop happening in a busy quarter. Decide up front whether it produces a note, a set of objectives, a rating, or all three, because that decides both the preparation time and whether the year end has anything to draw on.
Keep the year end, but make it read from the check-ins
Continuous almost never means no annual point at all; it means the annual point is a summary rather than a reconstruction. That only works if the check-ins were recorded against the person, which is what turns twelve notes into one defensible summary.
Measure completion, not enthusiasm
The way this fails is quietly: check-ins slip, then get skipped, and nobody notices until the year end has nothing behind it. Completion rate by manager, month by month, is the one measure that catches it while there is still time to fix it.
Will it do what you need for Continuous performance management?
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Continuous performance management: common questions
Is continuous performance management cheaper than an annual review? Almost never in manager hours. It is usually more expensive per year and better value, because the feedback arrives close enough to the work to change it. Cost both before you choose.
How often is continuous, in practice? Monthly or every six weeks is what most teams settle on. Weekly tends to collapse into a status meeting, and quarterly is close enough to an annual cycle that the main benefit is lost.
Do we still need ratings? If pay or promotion depends on performance, yes, because those decisions need a comparable basis. The change is that the rating summarises recorded check-ins rather than being invented in one sitting.
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