Halogen TalentSpace Reviews

The possibilities with the Learning module are endless! If you can create it, your employees will come! I love the fact that I can customize Learning Units and Learning Paths to streamline the departmental educational needs across our organization. I can use a blend of instructor-led courses that are session based and e-Courses offered through various Halogen e-Learning bundles. The Learning Units are easily associated with an employees' Development Plans and the progress of these items are easily identified through the use of status indicators, flags or date paramenters.

I am unable to embed a Learning Path within a Learning Path. This would allow me to expedite the creation of a departmental Learning Path by copying all of the "New Hire" content into each specific departments paths verses having to recreate the path for each department. My work-around solution is I rely on Business Rules and catalogues. However, I have shared this idea with Prod. Dev. at the latest User COnference in hopes that others wll express the need for this functionality as it relates to the Learning Module.

In order to build the next level of expertise within each department, we must have job-specific courses readily available to our employees. The Halogen Learning Module allows me to create a "Learning-on-Demand" environment where employees can access the content whenever their schedules allow for it, and they can access the content at the office or in the comfort of their own home.

The end user experience is clean and easy to navigate. The ability to pull different pieces of information into performance reviews in particular is helpful for our end users. Additionally, the 1:1 meeting automatically tracks what an employee has been doing in the system, making it easier to go over accomplishments with managers.

The administrator tools are dated and can be clunky, especially when trying to set up forms and linking learning units or baths together. Also, the learning platform has some kinks in terms of linking courses and allowing administrators to build if/then courses, which puts more burden on the admin to be doing that manually.

Check out Saba for the learning portion. They are the same company, but Saba's learning is much more sophistocated.

We are able to have a central location database for performance reviews, learning, and policy agreements. Also, using the compensation module has made it easier to keep track of who and when people received raises.

Product development team is always working on improving the administrator's and end user's experience. Customer support is awesome. Anytime I call, I can count on getting help with out a wait. I also like how we have used outside the box thinking to automate several processes that were previously manual.

Sometimes I am challenged in the way our professional services non-linear reporting environment makes it necessary to revise our process so we can fully utilize Halogen. Not necessarily a knock against the product, just forces us to rethink internal processes.

take a look at your existing processes and determine the need for them. This is a powerful tool that may be able to handle your out-of-the-box needs.

Utilizing Halogen, we have completely automated our annual independence process between all our offices, saving much time and satisfying licensing requirements. Also helping to improve our goal setting processes and office integration.

The fact that you are able to view previous reviews on a split screen while writing a current review is extremely helpful so that you can refer to past achievements or goals that weren't met without having to exit the current window you are in to obtain the information. It also quite easy to assign secondary managers and select what information they should have access to depending on the need. Lastly, reassigning reviews to a different manager can be done with ease as there is a button that allows to reassign one or all of your subordinates.

One of my issues is that the button used to reassign reviews is grayed out until you select an individual which can sometime be overlooked causing a multitude of employees to ask the question of how to do it. Depending on the computer abilities of the particular employee using the program it can be deemed as not user friendly or intuitive.

We are currently using Halogen primarily for our reviews. The nice thing about the system is that you can open/close different reviews with ease and have a variety of templates within even one review. The more complicated thing is having to transfer the information from our ATS/HRIS to Halogen in order to maintain accurate records. I wish it was more automated or that it "spoke" to our current system.

The customer service we have experienced has been amazing. Calling into Halogen for any support you get a live person right away who is committed to helping you solve any question you may pose. Additionally, our implementation consultant has been an excellent resource when we talked to her each week to implement a piece of the software at a time.

The fact that it took us so long to purchase the software from Halogen!

For a truly customizable and tailored experience for your company or organization's needs, Halogen TalentSpace is an excellent resource.

We improved our performance management process and are working to also utilize the succession module for future planning purposes. The benefits will enhance efficiencies and reporting to ensure we are targeting the right opportunities for our employees.

Feedback! This is key when it comes to employees feeling that their hard work is recognized. All too often employees feel that they are being overlooked, but with the feedback option anyone, including fellow coworkers, are able to leave feedback, so that not only management knows that they did an amazing job, the employee knows it too!

The evaluation critique is too vague when it comes to job specifics. Coming from an agency that is state and nationally Accredited, we need to prove that our employees are graded on job specific criteria. The catch all, generalized answers, for evaluations make that rather difficult.

Supervisors and subordinates are communicating more easily now. While you can leave positive feedback, you can also leave constructive feedback as well. Both of these assist employees with becoming better at their specific job function.