Zed,
AI Talent Conversation Facilitator
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 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.
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.
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 Manager
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 Consistency
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.
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:
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
Exit interviews
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Exit interviews
Built for the messy, busy, human reality of high-performing organisations.
