Talent Development Software

Talent development software provides comprehensive support for employee training through multiple integrated features. Paycor’s Talent Development lets organizations create continuous development and coaching conversations that keep employees engaged and focused on their priorities. The software also supports training through pre-built courses, real-time reporting, personalized learning content, and automated workflows that help track progress and ensure completion of training objectives.

Yes, talent development software supports inclusive succession planning through three key areas: internal review, talent development, and goal setting, while providing tools to implement formalized succession planning. The software enables organizations to track employee skills and identify potential successors, ensuring a robust talent pipeline that helps keep the organization running smoothly through leadership transitions.

Talent development software enables organizations to track goals, manage employee performance, facilitate peer-to-peer feedback, and monitor manager interactions, while also providing personalized learning pathways, continuous feedback mechanisms, and data-driven insights to measure progress and development. Paycor’s Talent Development platform streamlines performance evaluations through automated workflows, prompts, tasks, and notifications while offering customizable templates and 360-degree feedback features for comprehensive assessment

Talent development software helps engagement by providing career pathing, frequent coaching conversations, and regular feedback. It improves employee retention through enhanced skill development and allows employees to track their progress and share ideas, creating a greater sense of ownership.

Together these products offer a full suite of development tools, including the ability to set up basic SMART formatted goals for your employees, but Talent Development Pro offers the ability to cascade those goals (either as SMART or OKR goals) across the entire organization. This unique feature allows administrators to translate goals from one level to the next to ensure strategic alignment of the organization with each department and employees’ goals. 
 
Talent Development Pro also provides a robust learning management system, administrative tools for analytics and reporting, an Explorer search capability, and the ability to see the cascaded company goals in a convenient alignment tree dashboard—just to name a few.

Talent Development modernizes the entire performance review process. With automated workflows, prompts, tasks, and notifications, remove the manual burden on HR leaders, managers and employees by allowing teams to easily see upcoming activities and ensure all priorities are being met. 

Organizational, Departmental, and Personal goals are typically created in one of two standard formats: SMART goal format or Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) format.

SMART Goal: A simpler goal framework where SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-base.

Objectives & Key Results (OKRs): A collaborative goal-setting framework aimed to define and track initiatives and their outcomes. OKRs give clear direction to every team and individual, track progress, and connect employees to your organization’s goals

Paycor’s Talent Development allows high-performing companies to shift to more continuous development and coaching conversations that create the right level of focus, help employees feel engaged, and deliver better business outcomes. This keeps everyone accountable and focused on their top priorities, helps remove roadblocks, and provides opportunities to celebrate success.  
Some of the key features include: 

Objectives: Collectively work towards the same goals with transparent and aligned goals to achieve results

1-on-1s:  Provide growth-orientated coaching for employees with easy-to-schedule and track 1-on-1 conversations. With customizable, preloaded templates, you can build coaching sessions with your employees to get the most out of your time together.

Feedback: Help managers and employees grow with lightweight continuous and structured 360 Feedback. This facilitates a culture of engagement, self-improvement, team development, and keeps a record of development-based conversations.

Recognition: Positively reinforce your organizations’ core values and increase employee happiness

Performance Reviews: Conduct time-efficient reviews based on historical performance data to reduce bias. Managers can start from a template and add questions just use a blank 1-on-1 and add questions. Employees can add questions as well as the managers Inspire Employees to Achieve Results 

Talent Development defines the roles of Administrator, Manager, and Employee. Certain configurations are customizable to meet the needs of your Organizational Model. 

Talent Development provides a customizable Homepage Performance Dashboard to centralize communication and team insights and provides a concise view for Employees to see and tackle Items that need attention. 

Talent Development allows you to integrate with the tools you already use so that your Tech Stack does the heavy lifting for you. Outlook and Google Calendar are our primary integration tools to help with scheduling your 1-on1s  and review sessions. Notifications can be configured to provide additional reminders to your employees and are sent via the Outlook and Gmail integration. There are also in-app notifications on the homepage and Performance dashboards to keep your employees continually engaged and on track 

Talent Development Pro provides administrators and managers a way to check in on usage and engagement data for individuals, specific groups, or the company. The easier it is for you to understand your people, the better equipped you are to have the data-driven conversations your organization needs to improve.