How to Redesign Performance Management in Under 6 Months
The step-by-step playbook a 500+ company used to redesign the entire performance management process
Almost everyone agrees performance management matters, but 61% of managers and 72% of employees don't even trust the process (Deloitte, 2025). This playbook shows you how to rebuild performance from a form-filling ritual into a business tool, step by step, in Mirro.

Why is this playbook worth your time?
This playbook is a real redesign from a company with the scale to make it genuinely hard and the results to prove it worked. Zitec is a European leader in digital transformation: 500+ colleagues & specialists, 350+ clients across 30+ countries, 20M+ end-users served every year.
This playbook is a real redesign from a company with the scale to make it genuinely hard and the results to prove it worked. Zitec is a European leader in digital transformation: 500+ colleagues & specialists, 350+ clients across 30+ countries, 20M+ end-users served every year, and the first Romanian IT company to become B Corp certified. After rebuilding their performance conversations in Mirro, 77% of colleagues rated performance conversations a 9 or 10 in the latest eNPS.
"Performance management is not about measuring people. It's about enabling them to perform, and that only happens when conversations, clarity, and data work together."
Roxana Cristea, Senior Performance & Development SpecialistZitec
What's inside?
A practical, no-fluff breakdown of the full redesign:
- The 6-step path Zitec used to redesign performance management without slowing the business down;
- How to measure performance without turning people into labels;
- What Zitec actually built in Mirro, and why KPIs became measures, not verdicts;
- 5 hard-won lessons you can apply to your own process;
- A 6-question checklist to pressure-test your current performance process.
Who is the playbook for?
- You lead HR, People, or Talent, and you're redesigning the performance process;
- You're a founder or executive who needs visibility into execution without adding heavier reviews;
- Your company has grown past the point where a lightweight, informal process still works (roughly 50–500 people);
- You're tired of reviews that feel like admin and don't change how people actually perform.
Mirro is lovingly used by a lot of companies