Those dreaded performance evaluation moments. Once or twice per year, leaders and managers sit together with their employees to take a look at how they did. Usually there’s two major things to debate on: the effort they’ve put in and the growth they’ve had. You get some grades and quite often there’s an amount of good things to mention and a few things that are lacking. Sometimes because one really lacks them, sometimes “because we have to write something down, it can’t be perfect, right?”

Although these performances have a good reason to exist when there are actual issues with certain employees, they are not what will make your company truly grow. If anything, they’ll maintain the status quo at best. If you really want your company to improve, you need to create an environment for your employees to grow. They are the beating heart of your company, after all.

This is why it’s important to discover which skills need development, so you can arrange the right moments to train people. Skill Intelligence tools help you to be efficient about this: sometimes you can send multiple people to the same course at once, giving you better bartering opportunities with the course provider. Maybe you have an expert in the house for a particular skill already and you can do the whole course internally, saving tons of budget. It might be counter-intuitive, but this way investing in a Skill Intelligence Tool can even save you money.

On top of that, the difference will also be visible at those performance evaluations. Once you give people purpose and a path that allows them to work on themselves, they will become more loyal to your company and will not mind going the extra mile. It becomes a two-way street where you both invest in each other. And maybe someday, one of those evaluation moments will actually get a “perfect” stamp.

At Brigid, we firmly believe that we’re building our Skill Intelligence tool so everyone can win, employees and employers alike. Because growing is better when you’re doing it together.