The Growth Check-In: Transforming Performance Reviews into Meaningful Learning Moments
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Performance reviews don’t have to be painful or bureaucratic. At Alts Digital, we’ve turned them into one of the most valuable growth moments, for both employees and managers.
In this session, Rita Mendes, Head of People and Culture at Alts Digital, shares how a remote company built a performance review process that is personal, flexible, and truly focused on development.
Rather than a twice-a-year ritual or a moment tied to salary, Alts’ approach follows each person’s life cycle, ensuring that feedback, reflection, and growth happen at the right time for the individual, not just for the company calendar.
Key Take-ways:
How to turn performance reviews into genuine growth conversations: making them meaningful moments for both employee and manager, not a bureaucratic checkbox.
Designing people-centered performance cycles: shifting from company timelines to each individual’s life cycle, for more relevant and timely feedback.
Decoupling performance from pay: why separating evaluations from salary discussions creates psychological safety and promotes honest reflection.
Building a process that actually works in remote settings: balancing consistency with flexibility, and helping managers grow through feedback as much as their teams do.
See you there!
Joana Alex.
About the Speaker:
With over 10 years of experience in People, Culture, and Human Resources, Rita Mendes currently serves as the Head of People and Culture at Alts Digital. Throughout her career, she has worked in consultancies, international tech companies, and startups, developing deep expertise in Recruitment and Selection, as well as in People Management and Development.
She is highly focused on leveraging HR analytics to drive data-informed decisions and brings her background in psychology to inform HR practices, particularly in areas such as leadership development, peer communication, and the dynamics between synchronous and asynchronous communication. In private practice, she works as a psychologist specializing in career development.