Agile performance management is an approach to manage employee performance and development throughout the year on a continual basks as opposed to on an annual or biannual basis. It is collaborative, involving regular conversations, continuous feedback loop and improvement measurements. Agile performance management isn’t solely focused on the end product only, i.e. to award a rating, rather is concerned with how to get there. Agile performance management is more about the process to arrive at the rating giving each employee optimum chances to learn and improve along the way. Agile performance management is created for and is being increasingly adapted by a brave new world that is faster, more social and more communicative.

The main feature of agile performance management is the frequent performance discussions, or ​‘check-ins’, which ideally take place on a monthly basis. These sessions are designed to help cultivate authentic, meaningful relationships and dialogue between manager and employee while providing the opportunity to exchange much needed, real, improvement oriented feedback.