Organisations have operating systems for everything – except their performance

Vantaset’s Performance-OS™ provides CEOs with the first genuine alternative to conventional Performance Management systems.

Unlike compliance-based systems that measure performance after the fact, Performance-OS™ helps organisations deliver the outcomes that matter.

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'Only 2% of Chief People Officers believe their Performance Management system actually works.'

Deloitte 2025 Global Human Capital trends

This is just one indication that Performance Management still isn’t working. What’s more, it is both employers and employees who continue to suffer:

- 61% of employers say they don’t trust their Performance Management system while;

- 64% of employees say their current Performance Management system is a waste of time.

This has a huge toll on workplace productivity, costing organisations over a trillion $US a year.

Despite a decade of reform, improvements in technology, and the arrival of AI, the trust deficit between employers and employee experience remains.


So, what’s next?

The next evolution in managing performance is High Performance Operating Systems (HPOS)

Everyone knows managing performance in business is critical. However, until now, trying to find a system that works has been almost impossible. As performance experts, we have turned our 30 years of research on human performance into a high-performance operating system to help organisations perform to their potential.

Unlike conventional systems, High Performance Operating Systems ensure every leader, team, and individual has the clarity and support to execute your strategic priorities.

Introducing Performance-OS™

Performance-OS™ is the world’s first ready-to-deploy High Performance Operating System for business.

Performance-OS is unique as it aligns the structural domains that govern workplace performance - Strategy, Culture, Leadership, Capability and Performance Management - turning them from standalone practices everyone applies differently into an integrated System of Performance to support the entire business.

Real world impact

“Deploying Performance-OS was the key to the transformation of Ubank.”

Lee Hatton, Chief Executive, Ubank
Portrait of Lee Hatton, Chief Executive of UBank

Following the deployment of Performance-OS in Ubank:

  • Staff engagement rose to unforeseen levels
  • Productivity improved by over 400%
  • Strategic clarity extended across every level of the business
  • Leadership capability and impact increased across every department
  • Customer satisfaction increased to record levels
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Why organisations prefer Performance-OS™

Organisations deploy Performance-OS when they are looking for a proven, systematic way to transform their people’s performance, engagement, and strategic execution.

It is especially relevant when:

  • Strategy is not being translated or delivered consistently
  • Leadership practices are inconsistent across teams or regions
  • Productivity and performance need to improve
  • Transformation programmes are not delivering the expected results
  • Growth is constrained by capability, culture or execution
  • A merger or restructure requires operational improvement
  • Stakeholders, shareholders or taxpayers are wanting better outcomes
  • BNZ
  • Hamilton City Council
  • New Zealand Police
  • Fronde
  • Colliers International
  • Fonterra
  • Spark NZ
  • CarterHoltHarvey
  • Corporate Express
  • Craigs Investment Partners
  • The Bell Tea Co
  • European Financial Services
  • Fletcher Building
  • James & Wells
  • Giltrap Group
  • Mighty River Power
  • NZME
  • Motor Co
  • PlaceMakers
  • Roche
  • Meredith Connell
  • Stuff
  • Tip Top
  • U Bank
  • Sanofi

High Performance Operating Systems give CEOs a mechanism to:

Improve engagement as a driver of performance, productivity and retention

Enhance enterprise performance and executional effectiveness

Strengthen leadership capability and operational impact

Align behaviours with strategic priorities

Build a future-ready workforce capable of delivering growth, transformation and service outcomes

Performance-OS™ is the only system that aligns the structural domains that govern workplace performance


Structural domains that govern organisational effectiveness

Performance-OS turns the structural domains from disparate practices everyone applies differently to a scalable infrastructure or System of Performance to power your entire workforce.

We call these domains the ‘5 Drivers of Workplace Performance™’.

Performance-OS™ is the only product that aligns the 5 Drivers of Workplace Performance into a scalable end-to-end system.

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Performance-OS deployment

We help you deploy Performance-OS in your organisation via a combination of facilitated executive workshops followed by a leader-led cascade from top to bottom.

This not only ensures it gets embedded in your business as a proper HPOS but turns performance management from a compliance exercise people typically reject into a true System of Performance that helps your people deliver the outcomes you’re looking for.

The three phases of deployment are:

  • Preparation

    Customised planning with your senior leaders, including aligning your strategic priorities, configuring the platform so it looks and feels like your organisation, and preparing the learning and communication tools to ready it for its introduction.

  • Deployment

    Cascaded throughout your organisation via your leadership structure to contextualise it for every workgroup, including facilitation tools and leadership playbooks to support its application.

  • Integration

    Integrated and embedded into your organisation as your new "high-performance way of working", to help your people deliver the outcomes that matter.



How Performance-OS is deployed

Performance-OS quick FAQs

What is it?
As a HPOS, it is an alternative to compliance-based Performance Management systems..
Who uses it?
CEOs, executive teams, government leaders, transformation teams, performance interventionists.
What does it improve?
Strategic alignment and execution, leadership impact and effectiveness, organisational culture, staff engagement and productivity.
How is it deployed?
Through a leader-led, three-phase process supported by Vantaset’s facilitators and platform.
How is it different?
It is a high-trust System of Performance specifically designed to improve workplace performance and productivity.
Why is it better?
Because it integrates all 5 structural domains that govern workplace performance.
How do we start?
Book an Executive briefing, complete the Performance Ability Assessment or contact us about a more detailed Performance Diagnostic.
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Take the next step towardshigh-performance

Performance-OS is designed to offer both public and private sector organisations a genuine alternative to compliance-based Performance Management systems.

Further to this, as a High Performance Operating System, it is an executive-led process that enables Leadership Teams to align every facet of their business with their strategic intent rather than simply measuring people’s performance after the fact.

This gives every leader in your business the clarity and infrastructure to unlock the potential of their workgroup in a way that is both scalable and enduring.


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A strategic conversation for CEOs, Commissioners, and senior leaders to understand how Performance-OS works and what it could do for your organisation.

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A rapid diagnostic to help you identify how well your current system supports your organisation’s performance, revealing where the greatest opportunities exist to lift its impact and effectiveness.

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