Potential

Potential describes the ability of an employee to develop himself/herself. In employee management, potential is determined with the help of a scale.

You can enter an employee's potential in the Employee Review tab (‘Employee > Employee Directory > Select Employee > Employee Review > Potential’)

Assess potential

Employee's potential — Manager's assessment

To assess the employee's potential, first select the year the potential should be assessed for.

• Click on
• Rate the employee's development potential e.g. by selecting one of the following selection values:

O High potential

O Some potential

O At the right position

O Overburdened

• Select the department and, where applicable, the relevant managerial responsibility and position(s). Information on the risk of leaving can also be entered.

If a potential has been selected for the employee, the Employee Performance Potential Matrix will appear. This shows the employee's overall performance, i.e. their overall assessment, alongside your own estimation of the employee’s potential.

Along with the other actions, you also have the possibility of copying over the potential assessment of the previous year.

Employees have the option to estimate their own potential under "Self-evaluation".

Note: The currently valid and saved assessments of an employee’s potential are displayed under their “Career progression”, in the “Potential and risks” section — provided it is enabled for display.

Change log for Potential

Modification history
A history of the modifications that have been made in an employee's “Potential” area can be viewed here. By accessing the “Modification history”, you can see the following information about each change:

• The field that was modified (e.g. “Development potential” or “Risk of leaving”)
• Previous value
• New value
• User who made the change
• Date/Time of change

The change log is accessible to the following user roles (if enabled for display):

• HR expert
• Administrator

Employee’s potential — Self-evaluation

Here you can see how the employee evaluations their own potential. Just as their manager or HR expert does, the employee can evaluate their own development potential (for example) by clicking on and selecting one of the following values:

O High potential

O Potential

O Current position is optimal

O Overburdened — I need support

Employee's Performance Potential Matrix

An employee's Performance Potential Matrix provides a quick insight of performances and potential that is visually displayed with a chart. The Matrix displays the overall assessment of the employee against your assessment of that same employee's potential.

Example of an employee's Performance Potential Matrix:

In the above matrix, you can see that the employee's performance was rated in the overall assessment as AA — very good, and that the assessment if their potential was Some potential.

Tip: Move the cursor over an assessment marker to see the performance and potential assessment as a "tool tip".

Regular and irregular assessments of potential

• Regular assessments

are carried out for a specific period (e.g. the year 2014) under Employee review meeting > Potential.

• Irregular assessments

are carried out irrespective of set periods, under Employee review meeting > Career progression.

Note: Providing a regular assessment is carried out in a current and applicable assessment period, the irregular assessment is updated (overridden). Reason: The current assessment is displayed regardless of the selected period.