AI TALENT CONVERSATION FACILITATOR

Zed,

For organisations that refuse to leave high performance to chance.

Zed holds the structure and facilitates a range of talent and performance conversations. From goal setting and performance check-ins to mid-year alignments and year-end reviews, development conversations, stay and exit interviews. Zed's innovation is in the facilitation, guiding these conversations with structure, neutrality, and most importantly, consistency.

But Zed also transcribes, analyses, scores, and remembers, capturing high quality data while saving managers and HR time when review season arrives. She supports managers to have better conversations, employees to get clearer direction, and HR to access real-time, comparable performance data.

For organisations that refuse to leave high performance to chance.

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The problem Zed solves.

The talent or performance conversation between a manager and direct report is a crucial moment of connection, realignment, mentorship, and data collection. Yet it remains the weakest point in our talent and performance management strategy.

Managers carry the entire system. Yet often busy, under-skilled, unconfident or new, they reschedule, rush, or skip the conversation. Their direct reports, strategy alignment, high performance and HR pay the price.

The Manager

Without data, organisations cannot fairly identify talent. Who's a star, who needs developing, who’s at risk, or needs to exit. Nor can they see, in real time, how a business unit is tracking against goals. Performance becomes visible at the end; too late to make a change.

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The Consistency

Without a consistent approach, applied consistently, data behind talent decisions is uneven. Some direct reports have conversations, others don't. Feedback and scoring vary by manager. Talent reviews lose their rigour.

The Data

How Zed helps?

Where every other system has invested in the dashboard, the rating, the form, and the calibration, Zed invests in the moment that creates performance in the first place: the conversation between a manager and a direct report. Held with structure, neutrality, and consistency, every time.

Zed:

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  • Initiates and schedules the conversation;

  • Structures and facilitates the conversation;

  • Captures, transcribes, and analyses;

  • Scores, documents and remembers; and

  • Schedules the next conversation

The talent conversations Zed holds

Zed is fully customisable to your conversation processes, procedures, structures, scoring metrics, language, methodology, culture and vibes.

Zed facilitates the full range of talent and performance conversations:

  • Goal setting

  • Mid-year goal check-ins

  • Performance check-ins

  • Performance reviews

  • Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)

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Performance management

  • Probation conversations

  • Development conversations

  • Aspiration conversations

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Career conversations

  • Stay interviews

  • Exit interviews

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Stay / Exit interviews

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Built for the busy, messy, human reality of high-performing organisations.

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