Spotlight: Photobucket

"We're using Rypple to more effectively establish, track and communicate all things performance related. That's good for employees, managers and the company."

Fred Holt

VP, HR

Challenge

As Photobucket's VP of Human Resources, Fred's goal is to build a great company culture. He found that traditional performance management systems couldn't keep up with the way his team works. People weren't using them. So he set out to find a solution for performance management and career development that managers and employees would support.

Fred wanted an easy, modern way to:

  • Provide people with more focused developmental feedback, more often.

  • Improve communication: create more transparency so everyone knows the right goals to focus on.

  • Celebrate success more frequently, and not wait months until review time to show appreciation (or worse, forget about it).

  • Give employees a way to take control of their own career development.

Solution

Photobucket uses Rypple to ensure everyone gets more frequent feedback and coaching.

Here's what their Rypple solution looks like:

Performance summaries

Quarterly performance recaps to review accomplishments, set goals and share developmental feedback.

Coaching and mentoring

Keep weekly 1:1 meetings focused, structured and relevant. Give employees an easy way to identify mentors within the organization.

Goal tracking

Set measurable quarterly goals that tie to key organizational objectives. Track goals and provide more visibility into what's going on.

Recognition

Employees at Photobucket know that their coworkers notice and value their efforts.