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Working at a remote team - the leadership team needed a way to get a temperature of how the whole company is feeling and solicit ideas. At most jobs, managers walk around and do a visual checkup, or gauge people's reactions in a meeting. That paints a very tiny window to the company. Someone having a bad day and showing it in a meeting doesn't reflect how the whole company feels.
15Five fills in that gap. We used it as a whole company. Once a week, all employees (including the CEO) answers a bunch of prompts. Questions like, "How is your workload? More/Less?" and "What as a company should we START/STOP/CONTINUE doing?" As well as, "What examples of our core values have you seen?" Your direct superior, along with the CEO would review and provide feedback if necessary.
It was a safe space to share your ideas and thoughts, as well as identify key people who are helping move the company forward. Many of the ideas brought in 15Five were later discussed in meetings and became projects or solutions to issues. Often, 15Five was a start to a hard conversation in the company - one that improved the culture for the better.
15Five fills in that gap. We used it as a whole company. Once a week, all employees (including the CEO) answers a bunch of prompts. Questions like, "How is your workload? More/Less?" and "What as a company should we START/STOP/CONTINUE doing?" As well as, "What examples of our core values have you seen?" Your direct superior, along with the CEO would review and provide feedback if necessary.
It was a safe space to share your ideas and thoughts, as well as identify key people who are helping move the company forward. Many of the ideas brought in 15Five were later discussed in meetings and became projects or solutions to issues. Often, 15Five was a start to a hard conversation in the company - one that improved the culture for the better.
- The technology - 15Five manages all the organization of questions/submissions, and reminders.
- Simplicity - 15Five isn't difficult to set up. And all of our users found it very easy to interface with.
- Great features - You can add as many answers as you want. You can tag people. You can do a lot with it.
- We didn't use all the features - so I'm not sure if it exists. But would the following:
- A cloud word bubble to identify common phrases that may need to be addressed.
- A way to measure if people are happy/sad based on what they say.
- A way to review prior 15Five easily to see if there's patterns. Unsure how this looks.
February 25, 2020
15Five is a valuable asset at our company!
15Five is being used across the whole organization. It solves communication hurdles for offices spread across the country. We also use for performance management, OKRs and recognition programs. It keeps the company all on the same page when it comes to performance.
- Company, department & individual goals are all in one place and easily accessible.
- Performance reviews are user-friendly.
- Improve the OKR module, more visually appealing.
- More trainings for new employees.
My 40 -person team is dispersed across the United States. 15Five is our weekly "meeting space," and also serves to manage each individuals short, medium, and long-term goals for their careers.
- Keeps a pulse on their weekly intentions
- Allows easy management of 1-on-1 discussions for my managers with their teams
- The fact that we use this for a Monday meeting and 15Five seems more geared to a Friday deadline is an annoyance.
- I'd like to see more integration with other services to lessen duplication of things like OKRs and 1-on-1s.
We use 15Five as a virtual weekly check-in. We are a remote company, so we do not have the luxury of meeting in person. 15Five is a great way to provide feedback on how our week went, what challenges we are facing, keep on track with our weekly priorities and use as a tool to reference back to and assess what areas we have been successful in or what areas we need to improve in based on previous feedback. 15Five is easy to use and helps build camaraderie among team members.
- Boosts morale by being able to give shoutouts to other team members!
- Acts as a resource to reference back to in one-on-one meetings.
- Helps keep you on track with your priorities.
- Currently, there is not an area I can imagine that needs improvement.
15Five is used within our Early Head Start Grantee program to address reflection on the work and the impact we are having in the communities we work in as well as the impact the work is having on us, both individually and as an organization. We have a focus on the relationship in our line of work so we use 15Five to discuss our successes and opportunities around building strong relationships with our partner sites and the children and families we work with.
- Providing reports to show use.
- Sending summaries.
- I did not get to experience any two way communication if 15Five provides that.
- I was told that cost was a barrier to our continued use and we were not provided options to work with our not for profit status to continue since our grant funds ended.
December 17, 2019
Great for providing transparency and a direct line of communication from employees to leadership
15Five is being used across our organization as a means for employees to be able to recap their experiences weekly for the manager to review. It is a quick and easy way for managers to get a sense of how their workforce is performing and, more importantly, how they are feeling. It allows employees a confidential place to bring up any issues they might be having or mention anything they accomplished that they are proud of that week.
- User interface is easy to use and intuitive.
- Provides a confidential line of communication between employees and managers.
- Could be easier to check if your 15Five has been reviewed.
December 11, 2019
A Terrific Tool to Enhance Employee Engagement!
We use 15Five across the entire organization. It has become an invaluable communication tool. As a remote organization, it helps us by providing a user-friendly tool to communicate with team members and to track trends. One of the best features is the 1:1 tool. It is a great way to keep a running list of important topics for 1:1 meetings.
- Provides a great place to track and record 1:1 topics.
- It is very easy to get a quick idea of team members' work loads.
- Starting and ending 1:1 meeting is not the smoothest operation.
December 11, 2019
Overall pleased, always room to improve
Our organization uses 15five for weekly self reviews by the entire company. It keeps people responsible for what they do and keeps things transparent.
- Ease of information entry
- Simplistic design
- Easier to preview old 15fives
- "Liking" a comment within an email instead of having to open another tab.
December 11, 2019
15Five: A great tool to build engagement
We currently use 15Five for weekly inter-departmental communication, as well as for the 1x1 feature. The products are extremely easy to use and offer a great way to engage team members "on the fly". The 1x1 has been great in helping to assist in tracking assigned tasks, creating better accountability. I highly recommend these tools as a way to strengthen your employee engagement.
- Ease of use: simple UI with easy actionability.
- Record keeping: since actions live in a platform tied to a user, you always have history to refer to.
- For my usage, I have no additional requirements currently.
We initially piloted 15Five with a few team members to test its capabilities. Within the last quarter, we have maximized its usage across our Placers team. We have found that 15Five keeps us aligned with regard to performance reviews, quarterly objectives, key results, monthly, and weekly activities. It has been an excellent tool that allows us to give and receive feedback from leaders and co-workers.
- 15Five encourages creative thinking and problem-solving.
- 15Five provides the right platform to keep you organized.
- Would be great to add more to the performance review section-comments around metrics.
- Optional weekly questions could use a refresh as they follow a pattern around culture and a vision for what you want to do in 6 months—getting a bit stale.
December 04, 2019
Finally, a performance management tool that people actually use
The entire global organization is using 15Five. We were seeking a tool that allowed our employees to express their needs and feelings in a quick and easy nature. We did not want a tool that was not used or was heavy to learn. 15Five is simple, straightforward, easy to use. I believe this makes it more likely that employees will use it and managers will as well. We can also report our in a realtime fashion to push consistency. I feel 15Five meets the needs of our organization which has a dispersed workforce generally between the ages of 26-45. We have seen more employee engagement and managers listening and improving.
- The 15Five team (2 people) held a webinar that showed employees and managers how to use the product.
- The product workflow/emails/reminders sent to employees and managers drives them to give feedback.
- Reporting showed one employee that needed help and we were therefore able to bubble up the employees feelings and concerns and get them addressed and answered and therefore prevented turnover.
- I think this product helps prevent actual live communications. It just allows employee and manager to just type back and forth. But reality is this is better than zero interactions happening.
December 23, 2019
Wonderful way to stay synced and optimize performance as a team
15Five is being used by our entire organization. We're leveraging it primarily for performance management. It helps us to make sure each team member is staying focused on the right strategic objectives and meaningfully contributing each week. We use the reflection questions and social features to encourage and reinforce key cultural values.
- Performance management.
- Tactical feedback.
- Integration with other software.
- Usability on managers end.
December 17, 2019
15Five helps employees and managers work together better.
15Five is utilized across our organization to manage weekly priorities and engagement, 1-on-1s, employee achievements, and annual reviews and objectives.
- 15Five provides a consistent method of setting weekly priorities and tracking completion of those items.
- 15Five provides a convenient tool for recording items to be discussed during 1-on-1s with managers.
- The questions asked during weekly 15Five surveys can become repetitive and do not always apply to every employee.
- Reporting and dash-boarding could be stronger.
15Five is being used in our organization as a tool to manage employee 1 on 1's and track progress. We also use it for our annual reviews. We like the visibility tools and the high-five feature, which allows employees to publicly thank other members of their team for a job well done.
- Makes employee reviews and 1on1's very easy to manage.
- Improves company culture and the team feel through the High-Five feature, which allows for public recognition of co-workers when they go above and beyond.
- Questions are repetitive weekly, though this may be a function of our administrator, and not the platform itself. Answering the same questions every 2 weeks is an awful lot like the movie Groundhog day.
- Give employees at all levels visibility into the "How are you feeling" score to get a pulse on the entire company at once.
February 17, 2020
15Five is great for check-ins with staff
We are a small company without an HR dept. 15Five is how we check in with the team and discuss anything that needs to be addressed!
- Pulse ratings: How are you feeling?
- High fives: Who is doing a great job?
- I feel the, "what are you doing this week" questions aren't useful for us and end up being a little redundant. Could make those optional. I prefer long term goal check-ins.
- One on ones: not really sure how they work.
The engineering department uses 15Five to keep track of 1-on-1s and do weekly check ins. It has really me keep track of my conversation topics in one on ones, and when I see things consistently coming up I know it's important to me. The weekly check in functionality is also great because it gives your team an outlet to express their feedback in a more indirect way. Often answers to the seemingly innocuous questions will give you and your manager something interesting to talk about in your next one on one, or might give shy employees a different outlet for delivering feedback on how the company is doing in certain areas.
- Quick, responsive, and minimalistic UI.
- Great outlet for receiving indirect feedback from employees that you can follow up on.
- User engagement can sometimes be inconsistent amongst teams and could benefit from a more involved customer success experience.
We use 15Five for scrum updates on our team, and to hold each other accountable when working cross-functionally. It addresses the issue of updating our manager on what is occurring across the entire team and if anyone has any additional blockers that need to be accounted for. If our manager is happy with the work and timeline we are on then he will give us a high five.
- High Fives because they encourage.
- Submitting updates which keep us honest and productive.
- Could use a strong function for project based work
- More innovative ideas for cross functionality
December 12, 2019
One of the Best Tools on the Market for Your Company
We use 15Five across our entire organization to keep a pulse on employee sentiment and to track weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. We also use the 'High Five' feature to give props or shoutouts to coworkers who have done something noteworthy or exciting in the last week and then read those out to the entire company.
- Track employee sentiment.
- Track personal and professional goals progress.
- If 15Five added payroll it'd be a truly unmatched HR tool.
- Could use more robust analytics, would come from additional questions.
December 11, 2019
Its OK, but hard to utilize the entire scope of what they offer and make it pay for itself
We use this within our entire company to track objectives, and also to keep in tune with each other as co-workers and managers about the work being done on a weekly basis.
- Easy user interface makes it quick and easy to complete each week.
- Easy to access information on others and see what they are working on.
- Objective tracking is very limited and not very robust.
- Not flexible for different organization types. We have had several requests for different ways of using it which have not been doable.
We use 15Five in our department—it's a great way to get a quick update on what's happening with everyone weekly. I especially like the ability to tag colleagues in your post to give them kudos or make sure they see an update.
- Provides a quick and easy forum to give a weekly update.
- Provides the opportunity to rate how you're feeling/what the morale is on a weekly basis with a simple star rating.
- It's really hard to identify any improvements: it's a simple, easy to use product.
December 05, 2019
15Five - Easy for employees to use; Helpful for managers to track atmosphere and projects.
The whole organization used 15Five on a weekly basis to take the pulse of the employees, ask questions about their project, and congratulate each other!
- Very easy-to-use interface
- Can publicly congratulate coworkers, which I think is a great thing
- Love the auto-questions asked in the internal surveys each week
- If the problem you have is with the reviewing manager or company leader, it's hard to be honest
December 04, 2019
Quite hard to learn how to use, but good once you get going.
We work with our clients using 15Five to keep on track with tasks that need to be completed on both sides. It is used across the client's organisation and ours.
- Task Management.
- Performance Management.
- Collaboration.
- Ease of use. Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly, but I just find it a big confusing to work with and not always very intuitive.
- I really dislike the question 15Five asks about how you are feeling each week. It would just be weird to tell my clients that I'm not feeling excited about their work.
- More data visualisation would be good.
- More customisation with objectives and with way it is set up would be great.
- Questions are repetitive.
December 04, 2019
Solid, easy-to-use product for task management and accountability
It's being used across the entire organization to help people effectively track and manage their goals, and to help managers keep their teams accountable. It's also being used for EOY reviews, as it already houses the day-to-day data, and allows people to easily access that info to create a more holistic overview of their annual progress (or lack there of).
- Incredibly easy to use with a simple, yet appealing UX
- The week-to-week oversight forces people to think about work in chunks, which I find helpful
- Reviewing your team's data is also really simple/easy and I like that you can provide comments on both individual tasks, as well as their progress overall
- I love that the company can ask questions of everyone across the board and switch those up week-by-week. It gives a ton of insight into things that might otherwise be hard to capture in real time
- I HATE that you can't go back to a 15Five to add goals for a certain week; we submit on Fridays...sometimes things change on Monday and there's nothing I can do
- I like that I get email reminders, but it's way too many (there's probably way to slow these down, but I'm too busy to figure out how).
- I found the annual review process confusing - our Head of HR had to tell us when to press submit, etc. to ensure our teams saw things at the right time.
August 06, 2019
Great solution for tracking goals and 1:1s at work!
Used by our whole organization to manage OKRs, 1-on-1s and track overall job satisfaction.
- Strengthens relationships by encouraging candid communication.
- Provides great peer-to-peer feedback through "high fives."
- Allows tracking goals from week to week.
- Tree-view for OKR browsing would be helpful for checking goals across the org
- Chat-integration for high-fives to publicly praise others
- Option to carry over tasks from week to week
February 08, 2019
Byte sized, weekly performance management tool
We are currently using 15Five to report on goals, accomplishments, roadblock, and ideas on a weekly basis. This helps business leaders stay up to date with everything that's happening within their respective business lines. This process also helps employees keep track of their short and mid-term priorities as they fill out their weekly 15Five reports.
Anybody whose job does not involve similar tasks day-in-day-out fills out a 15Five report every week (that's about 300 employees).
Anybody whose job does not involve similar tasks day-in-day-out fills out a 15Five report every week (that's about 300 employees).
- Weekly goals and accomplishments: This is the core of what we use 15Five for. Any employee with varied daily job responsibilities fills out a 15Five report that mentions their accomplishments for the week that went by and their goals for the upcoming week. Wash, rinse and repeat.
- Customizability: 15Five provides a lot of options to customize the questions that employees need to answer on their weekly reports.
- Tagging: You can tag your colleagues in your report, so it's a great way to get somebody's attention within the company.
- Visibility: Individual 15Five reports are visible to everybody up the chain, so it's a great tool for business leaders to get a pulse of the organization.
- While it is possible to generate custom reports based on historical data, the interface is not very robust. For instance, you cannot filter your reports based on, say, departments.
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