Talent Development Software That Turns Performance Data Into Growth
PerformYard is talent development software that layers coaching, compensation, and competencies onto the performance management process. Develop, reward, and retain your people from one easy-to-use platform.
Develop, Reward, and Retain, on One Platform
Develop Your People
Give your team AI-assisted coaching that turns everyday reviews and 1:1s into real development. PerformYard surfaces what to work on and how to help, so growth doesn't stall between annual cycles.
Reward Your Top Performers
Connect pay to performance and run merit-based raises. Leadership can view review scores and goal results right from the compensation planning page, so pay happen in the context of employee performance.
Build Clear Career Paths
Define what "good" looks like for every role with competencies, then show employees the skills they need to reach the next level. Career growth stops being a mystery and becomes a plan.
Run Any Review Process
PerformYard has everything we need to run our performance review process and is very easy to use. It’s enabling our performance program while we grow rapidly, helping us scale effectively.
One of our owners told me that PerformYard’s style and design have employees actually being thoughtful about the completion of their reviews and engaged in the process. That's a win!
It’s so easy to set up a review cycle, send it out, have our employees fill it out, and track who has completed their form and who still needs to finish.
Since using PerformYard, our employee evaluation and review process has gone from a time-consuming and stressful task to an easy and manageable routine.
Build a Complete Talent Development Engine
Talent development software only works if it's grounded in real performance data. PerformYard streamlines your reviews, goals, and continuous feedback, then uses that data to drive coaching, compensation decision, and competency tracking.
Every development, pay, and career decision starts from one source of truth instead of a separate spreadsheet.
Give Managers an Intelligent Coaching Assistant
PerformYard Talent Development generates meeting briefs, employee summaries and surfaces coaching opportunities in real time. Your whole team gets consistent, actionable guidance on every aspect of performance management, without hours of clicking around. PerformYard does the prep work so your managers can do the people work.
Connect Performance to Pay
Run compensation cycles next to the performance data that justifies them. Managers plan raises and other comp decisions against a real budget and their team's performance history, so raises reflect performance instead of tenure or gut feel.
Bring Skills and Competencies into Performance Reviews
Define role-specific competencies, rate employees against them, and reveal the exact skill gaps between where someone is and where they want to go. PerformYard brings skills and competencies into performance reviews, giving your entire organization cleaer pathways to promotions.
Your Complete Performance and Development Toolkit
Performance Reviews
Run Performance Reviews That Actually Drive Growth
- Employee appraisals
- 360 degree feedback
- Quarterly check-ins
- Annual reviews
- Project-based reviews
- Review cycles built around your timeline
- One-on-ones
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PerformYard AI
Tell the Platform What You Want
- Build review forms through conversation
- Create goals by chatting, not clicking
- Generate any report from a plain-language request
- AI summaries of reviews, meetings, and cycles
Goal Management
Set Goals People Actually Follow Through On
- Individual, team, and company goals
- Cascading and aligned objectives
- Progress check-ins and updates
- Goals tied directly into reviews
Continuous Feedback
Make Feedback a Habit, Not an Event
- Real-time recognition and feedback
- Public or private visibility options
- Feedback that feeds review cycles
- Simple enough that people actually use it
Reporting & Analytics
Turn Performance Data Into Decisions
- Cycle completion and participation tracking
- Rating distributions and trend lines
- Nine-box and calibration views
- Exportable, shareable reports
Employee Engagement
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Know How Your People Are Really Doing
- Anonymous engagement surveys
- Benchmark and trend tracking
- Drill-downs by team and department
- Action planning from results
Meetings
Run One-on-Ones Worth Showing Up For
- Shared agendas and talking points
- Notes and action items in one place
- Ties into goals and feedback
- Meeting history at your fingertips
Surveys
Get Answers From Your Whole Org
- Custom surveys in minutes
- Anonymous or attributed responses
- Automated reminders
- Results reporting built in
Ask PerformYard AI
Put Your Performance Data to Work
- One intelligence layer, connected to your reviews, goals, meetings, and feedback
- Recommendations built from your data, in your company's context
- Meeting notes inform goals; review outcomes feed comp and growth plans
- Every cycle makes the next one smarter
Coaching
Insights that Find You
- Employee Insights: a complete view of each person's performance and development.
- Meetings Coach: Pre-meeting prep and post-meeting analysis
- Goal Quality Coach: Ensures every goal is aligned with your organization's philosophy.
- Review Feedback Coach
Compensation
Pay Decisions Backed by Performance Data
- Comp reviews connected to performance
- Transparent, defensible pay decisions
- Budget and approval workflows
- Merit cycles without the spreadsheets
Skills & Competencies
Give Every Employee a Blueprint for Growth
- Define competencies by role and level
- Assess skills in reviews and check-ins
- Show employees the path forward
- Career pathing built on real data
Frequently Asked Questions
What is talent development software?
Talent development software helps organizations grow, reward, and retain employees by turning performance data into ongoing development. It combines capabilities like coaching, compensation planning, and competency tracking so HR teams can move beyond measuring past performance and actively develop people for what's next.
How is talent development different from performance management?
Performance management measures and records how employees are doing. Talent development builds on that record to take action — coaching managers to give better feedback, linking pay to performance, and mapping the skills employees need to advance. PerformYard connects both in one platform.
What's included in PerformYard Development?
PerformYard Talent Development includes Coaching, Compensation, and Competencies, layered onto the core performance platform (reviews, goals, continuous feedback, and engagement). Each capability shares the same performance data, so development, pay, and career decisions stay connected.
How does AI fit into talent development?
AI powers the coaching layer — generating contextual meeting briefs, flagging bias in review feedback, and surfacing where managers should focus. It handles the administrative prep so managers can spend their time on real development conversations.
How does talent development software improve retention?
Employees stay when they feel developed, fairly rewarded, and clear on where they're headed. Talent development software supports all three: coaching for growth, data-driven compensation for fair pay, and competency-based career paths that show employees a future at your organization.
Who is talent development software for?
It's built for HR teams that have mastered the basics of reviews and 1:1s but still get bogged down developing, rewarding, and retaining people. If you're asking "we track performance well — now what?", talent development software is the next step.
