Yes. One of the most powerful elements of Carbon360 is a highly flexible system for modelling your own framework. This can include different styles of questions, descriptions, even different scoring systems for individual questions and critically different question sets for different Job Roles or Tiers in your organisation. The main Competency Framework screen also displays a graphical representation of your framework as you build it.

Many people use a standard scoring key such as:-

• Strongly disagree
• Disagree
• Neutral
• Agree
• Strongly agree

However Carbon360 allows you to enter your own scoring key. You can even change the scores for individual questions and provide descriptions to help the review make the right choice.

Yes. Instead of just posing straight questions you are also able to set up complex questions with comprehensive descriptions of each scoring choice. This can be demonstrated if you require.

Users logging in for their review are provided with instructions that can be written by you and just one button to press titled ‘Feedback’. They can then choose reviewers or complete feedback on another person. It is very simple to pick and use without any formal training.

Yes. When choosing reviewers it is possible to enter a name and email address to invite an external person to review you. This does depend on the system being configured to allow it and also technical considerations.

Nothing at all! Once you have purchased the system you can run as many reviews as you wish, as often as you wish.

Carbon360 has workflow options that can be turned on and off by the administrator. This includes the ability for the line manager to check and sign off the choices made by a user and also to sign off the final reports before the user sees them.

Yes. When the HR administrator sets up the competency framework they are able to define what the expected score should be for any question related to a specific job role. This means that a question aimed at an Office Junior can have a lower expected score than if it was posed to a Director.

Yes. If the workflow option is activated the manager gets the chance to see the results and comments before the end user. The user does not get to view them until they are signed off by the manager. Also, the system administrator is able to turn on a Profanity filter. This checks any comments made for inappropriate terms or words and replaces then with ‘stars’ (*). An administrator can still uncover the words if needed.

Reporting is split into 3 parts:-

• User:- The user can view reports about themselves. This includes reports on the competencies, individual behaviours and others that compare the results from anonymous groups such as peers, reports and clients for example.
• Manager:- The manager can run reports on subordinates. These include the same reports as the user and also the ability to run some grouped or cumulative reports on groups under their management.
• HR administrator:- The HR administrator can run cumulative or comparative reports on a wide variety of groups across an organisation. For example this may involve requesting a cumulative report on all employees in a particular department or even a whole country. This is a very flexible system and can provide enterprise level data to assist you in running the company more effectively.

Yes. When you purchase a licence for Carbon360 it is yours to host wherever you wish. You have the option of hosting it on our servers for a monthly cost or installing it locally. We are happy to discuss the technical aspects with your IT team.

We host Carbon360 with one of the UK’s top server providers. Through their professional infrastructure they are able to provide guarantees to us to ensure maximum availability. They also provide resilient security to protect against any data loss.

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