Paths for Families is an incredible nonprofit organization that builds healthy lifelong family connections for every child and advocates for continuous improvement of systems that promote the well-being of children.
As their director of operations, Audra Hurd puts it: They were "built upon the principles of inclusiveness, openness, and belief that every child deserves to have a stable and loving family.”
Their job is to identify children in need of parents and work together with expectant parents who are exploring adoption as well as children in the state foster care systems to identify adoptive resources.
Believing that families come in many diverse forms, they seek stable, caring and attuned parents able to nurture and embrace the whole child. They also provide support for families as children mature and help navigate the unique issues of adoption.
Paths for Families is one of the many amazing nonprofit organizations that use Teamflect and we are proud to have them as a part of our community.
As Teamflect, we've always done our best to provide nonprofit organizations that have great purposes with the best performance management experience possible.
With all the amazing work they are doing and the challenges they are facing day in and day out, the last thing organizations such as Paths for Families should worry about is the efficiency of their performance management software.
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"We've become more than an adoption agency. We're also doing a lot of work with public and private organizations.”
Audra Hurd - Director of Operations
Hurd goes into detail on some of the wonderful work Paths for Families does: "We're trying to help kids that are in foster care find forever homes and doing a lot of work in trauma-informed care and trauma-informed spaces, educating professionals on that kind of work."
What Paths for Families does every single day to help children of color and LGBTQIA+ youth who are in the child welfare system is nothing short of inspiring.
While critical for professional and organizational growth, conducting mandatory performance reviews could have been a chore for such an organization.
Studying neuro-leadership and understanding motivation and the social brain, the agency sought to identify and utilize a tool that would maximize engagement through the performance process. This is where Teamflect came in!
"Our previous solution was a Word document. We needed something better. We looked at a lot of different options and really what we were trying to find was a tool that could take our performance management process to the next level."
Like many organizations, Paths for Families once relied on Word templates for performance reviews, a method that was functional but lacked the structure, engagement, and developmental focus they wanted.
They sought a platform that could incorporate neuro-leadership principles, encourage ongoing conversations, and transform performance management into more than just an annual task.
Audra explains, "Often feedback can be painful, and it can sometimes do more harm than good. So, we wanted to find a way to incorporate principles of neuro leadership and make sure that people had opportunities for growth and development and that they were having regular conversations so performance management would not be only a once-a-year thing."
The customizable performance review and feedback templates that Teamflect offers, not only present our users with helpful guiding questions but also lets them create their own performance review templates.
"We decided we'd try to find a tool, like Teamflect, that actually made it worthwhile instead of just a task we had to do. We used it for our performance reviews, and we got really good feedback. The questions made us think more."
Teamflect’s performance review module comes with a variety of templates designed for different scenarios. From onboarding reviews (30-60-90 days) to exit and stay interviews, Teamflect has you covered.
Every template is fully customizable, allowing organizations to use pre-built questions or add their own.
What set Teamflect's performance reviews apart for Audra was their focus on employee development. Audra highlights, "The questions were different. We asked questions about goals and things that we hadn't necessarily asked in that way before. These performance reviews made us think and were tailored to the individual employees' growth and development."
Paths for Families’ journey shows how the right performance management tool can do more than track reviews. It can actually foster growth, thoughtful reflection, and ongoing conversations. With Teamflect, they’ve moved away from static templates and created a process that aligns with their values and supports their team as effectively as they support the families they serve.
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