Performance Management FAQs
Employee FAQs
Goals & OKRs
Go to Goals & OKRs and select Create Goal. You can align your goal with company, department, or manager goals, use Wizzy AI to generate SMART goals and OKRs, or create one from scratch. When you’re ready, save it as a draft or submit it for approval.
How do I submit my goals for approval?
After reviewing your goals, click Submit. Your manager will be notified to review, approve, or request changes.
How do I edit my goals?
You can edit goals while they are in Draft or Returned status. Once approved, contact your HR administrator if changes are required.
How do I update my goal progress?
Open the goal and update the progress for each Key Result. If a Key Result is connected to a business system, progress may update automatically.
Can I track my goals and performance?
Yes. Your dashboard provides a real-time view of your goals, progress, competencies, feedback, reviews, and development plans.
Performance Conversations
Open Performance Conversations and create a one-time or recurring 1:1. Since it’s connected to your calendar and Goals & OKRs, Wizzy automatically recommends agendas, captures meeting notes, summarizes discussions, and tracks action items.
How do I request feedback?
Create a Performance Conversation or request 360 Feedback by selecting the people you’d like feedback from.
How do I give 360 feedback?
When you receive a feedback request, open the invitation, complete the questionnaire, and submit your feedback.
Who can see my feedback?
Visibility depends on how the feedback was requested. Self-initiated feedback is typically visible to you and your manager, while manager-initiated or 360 feedback follows your organization’s configured permissions.
Performance Reviews
Open Self Assessment within Goals & OKRs, complete your self-assessment, and submit it before the review deadline.
What happens after I submit my review?
Your manager is notified to complete their evaluation. Once the review cycle is finalized, you’ll receive your completed performance review.
Career Development & AI
Innovation Minds helps you set clear goals, receive continuous feedback, build competencies, document achievements, and prepare for meaningful career conversations.
Will AI evaluate my performance?
No. Wizzy AI helps create goals, summarize conversations, recommend improvements, and simplify administrative work. Performance ratings and decisions always remain with managers.
Manager FAQs
Goals & Coaching
How do I approve employee goals?
When employees submit their goals, you’ll receive a notification. Review them in Team OKRs, then approve, return, or request changes.
How do I review goal progress?
Open Team OKRs to view employee progress and Key Results. Wizzy also highlights progress updates during Performance Conversations.
How do I schedule and manage a 1:1?
Use Performance Conversations to schedule one-time or recurring meetings. Wizzy helps prepare agendas, captures meeting summaries, recommends action items, and keeps conversations linked to employee goals.
How do I provide ongoing feedback?
Provide feedback during Performance Conversations or use the 360 Feedback module to document coaching throughout the year.
How do I request 360 feedback?
Select the employee, choose the reviewers, assign a feedback template, and send the request.
How do I extend goals or OKR dates for a specific employee?
To extend dates for a specific employee, navigate to Goals & OKRs and select Adjust Due Dates. Next, search for the employee’s name and update the timelines as needed.
Performance Reviews
Open Manager Reviews, review the employee’s self-assessment, goals, feedback history, competencies, and Performance Conversations, then complete your evaluation and submit it.
How do I compare my team’s performance?
Use Calibration and Talent Insights to compare employees using goals, competencies, achievements, and performance history.
How do I calibrate performance ratings?
Open Calibration to review employees in the 9-Box or your custom matrix, compare ratings across your team, and make adjustments before finalizing reviews.
How do I handle employees who haven’t completed their reviews?
Send reminders through the platform or work with your HR team if additional follow-up is required.
Team Development
Schedule regular 1:1 conversations, monitor goal progress, provide timely feedback, and use Wizzy’s recommendations to support employee growth throughout the year.
How are company goals aligned with employee goals?
Innovation Minds supports cascading goals from the company level down to departments, teams, and individual employees while allowing managers to add role-specific goals.
How can I identify employees who need additional support?
Use Talent Insights to monitor goal progress, competencies, engagement, and feedback trends so you can proactively coach employees before formal review cycles.
Admin FAQs
Go to Admin > Add Program > Performance Management and create a new review cycle by defining the timeline, workflow, participants, and review settings.
How do I configure goals and OKRs?
Configure company goals, cascading rules, approval workflows, KPI integrations, and goal lifecycle settings from Edit Program or within the Program itself.
How do I configure review forms?
Customize review templates, questions, competencies, rating sections, and participant types within the Performance Program Admin.
How do I configure rating scales?
Use Admin > P2P Configuration to customize rating scales, competency ratings, potential ratings, and talent classifications.
How do I configure the 9-Box Matrix?
Configure performance and potential ratings, talent categories, and matrix labels before managers begin their evaluations.
How do I set review deadlines?
Manage review milestones, due dates, reminders, and workflow timelines from the Performance Program settings.
How do I change the review workflow?
Update approval steps, participant roles, review stages, and workflow dates from the Performance Program.
How do I reopen a performance review?
Reopen individual reviews from Program Administration or contact Innovation Minds Support if additional assistance is needed.
Executive Sponsors (HR, IT, Finance, Legal & C-Suite)
How does performance management improve business results?
Innovation Minds aligns employee goals with business priorities, strengthens manager effectiveness, improves accountability, identifies top talent, and creates a culture of continuous performance.
How does Innovation Minds improve organizational alignment?
Goals cascade from company objectives to departments, teams, and individuals, giving leadership real-time visibility into organizational progress.
How does AI improve performance management?
Wizzy AI helps employees and managers create goals, summarize conversations, recommend improvements, draft reviews, and surface actionable insights, while leaving all performance decisions to managers.
Can we make compensation and promotion decisions more objective?
Yes, companies can drastically reduce bias by anchoring compensation and promotion decisions to structured data. By leveraging continuous feedback, role competencies, and documented achievements, managers shift from subjective recall to fair, evidence-based evaluations. An Intelligent Calibration process provides a centralized view of performance and budget data, filtering out individual manager bias to ensure uniform standards across teams.
The Innovation Minds platform streamlines this entire workflow. Its calibration wizard provides guided bell curve distributions, bonus planning, and budget allocation tools. These features help leaders identify and recommend promotion-ready talent while ensuring reward structures remain equitable, consistent, and strictly aligned with company budgets
Can Innovation Minds support our existing performance management process?
Yes. The platform supports annual, quarterly, continuous, competency-based, SMART Goals, OKRs, custom workflows, and organization-specific review cycles.
How configurable is the platform?
Organizations can configure goals, competencies, review forms, rating scales, approval workflows, calibration, bonus planning, succession planning, and reporting without custom development.
Can performance data be updated automatically?
Yes. Goals can integrate with business systems to automatically update progress, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy.
How does Innovation Minds integrate with our existing HR systems?
Innovation Minds integrates with leading HRIS platforms, SSO providers, collaboration tools, and business applications to synchronize employee and organizational data.
Is the platform secure for sensitive performance data?
Yes. The platform uses enterprise-grade security, role-based permissions, encryption, audit trails, and configurable access controls to protect performance information.
Why should we choose Innovation Minds over traditional performance management software?
Innovation Minds combines Goals & OKRs, AI Performance Conversations, continuous feedback, reviews, calibration, bonus planning, and succession planning in one AI-powered Employee Experience platform, eliminating the need for multiple point solutions.