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15Five
15Five
15Five
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15Five in San Francisco offers their employee performance management platform, which emphasizes employee engagement via pulse surveys and an emphasis on frequent feedback, fast one-on-one meeting planning, objective tracking, and other related features.
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View all 15 features- Manager note taking (29)9.595%
- Performance tracking (28)8.989%
- Individual goal setting (33)8.888%
- Subordinate goal setting (28)8.686%
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What is 15Five?
15Five is a human-centered performance management platform designed to create effective managers, highly engaged employees, and top-performing organizations. From engagement surveys and 1-on-1 tools to performance reviews and OKRs, 15Five aspires to be a complete solution that combines software, education, and community to develop successful managers and unlock peak employee performance. Built using the Positive Product Design™ method, 15Five offers software aligned to the latest positive psychology research. The vendor boasts more than 2,800 successful customers have developed effective managers and engaged employees thanks to 15Five, including Credit Karma, Hubspot, Spotify, Peleton and Pendo. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco,15Five states their aim is to empower every leader to create highly engaged, high-performing organizations by helping people become their best selves.
15Five Features
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Manager note taking
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Rater nominations
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Workflow restrictions
- Supported: Review transfer
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
- Supported: Reporting
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Subordinate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Non-hierarchical goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Additional Features
- Supported: Recognition
- Supported: 360 Review
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15Five Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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15Five in San Francisco offers their employee performance management platform, which emphasizes employee engagement via pulse surveys and an emphasis on frequent feedback, fast one-on-one meeting planning, objective tracking, and other related features.
Reviewers rate Workflow restrictions highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of 15Five are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
15Five Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 30% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 20% |
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August 03, 2022
Task & Goal Driven is my Jam...
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
I use this software on a weekly bases to document my list of priorities that have been accomplished, my list of projects, and items just need to be completed within the week or weeks ahead. I believe it allows employees to add additional opinions or questions or concerns with optional space provided along with company-driven questions. I use it as a check-in and reminder of items still needing to be completed.
- Keeps you accountable for items listed
- Reminds you of weekly goals that may have been forgotten
- Allows you to express your concerns and needs on a weekly bases if need be
- Could change up some of the required questions needing to be answered, usually, there is at least one at the bottom
- Maybe allow your supervisor to add tasks to your list just in case you forget
- Maybe add something fun or interesting to the weekly assignment, like a silly puzzle or game that is work-related even though this might be too much and take too much time for someone to do
August 02, 2022
Fantastic Platform
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use 15five for feedback with the weekly checkins, 1 on 's, Employee Engagement Survey and soon Best Self Review. I like having the platform for communication, receiving feedback and the tools to personalize the discussions to our company needs.
- Employee Engagement Survey and how the results are broken down and explained.
- Weekly check ins to maintain accountability on tasks throughout the week
- Customer support is excellent.
- I have not had any issues at this point.
November 25, 2021
15Five is a great addition for any department or company!
We use 15Five across the company. Everyone is required to complete biweekly check-in's that are then reviewed by managers. All bonus-eligible employees track their annual goals in 15Five and make updates biweekly regarding the "percent complete." We started using this a couple of years ago and it replaced out old process for handling annual reviews.
- Reminders when check-ins are due
- Tracking annual goals
- Ability to give High Fives to anyone across the company for a job well done
- It's a little confusing to me the way that we had to set up our goals if the goals were linked to a larger goal for my boss or my boss's boss.
November 05, 2021
Robust Reporting Solution
15Five has been a useful asset to our entire organization, especially for our sales team. We're able to set, track, and accomplish individual and team goals so that our organization is set on the right path for success. We review our 15Five sales data and goal tracking on a weekly basis with sales managers so that each sales contributor is held accountable for their commitments.
- Detailed individual and team goal tracking
- Ease of use when navigating the dashboard
- Robust reporting for upper management
- More detailed reporting into individual sales opportunity health and statuses
September 21, 2021
15five the engagement tool every company should try at least once!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
15five is used across the whole organization. It is our main system for weekly check-ins, ENPS surveys, and review cycles. It directly supports the communication and feedback loop for our remote teams, that is the main solution it provides for us. We do weekly check-ins highlighting to our team leaders what are the main projects we worked on during the week, what challenges we faced, and other random questions. During our semestral reviews, we have all team members complete their feedback notes and then we all have one on ones to discuss the results acquired.
- Weekly Check-ins
- Seamless feedback within teams and leaders
- Recurring review cycles that are simple and easy to follow
- Surveys to understand better our organizational climate
- The HR portion we don't really use
- The new tools like engagement+ and request feedback need some more work and communication so we can use them properly
- Objective construction could be more user friendly
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.
January 25, 2021
15Five - A must have for organizations!
As a new nonprofit, KCI is using 15Five to engage with employees and allow us to embrace 21st-century practices around employee engagement. Traditional systems have called for an annual or semi-annual employee review cycle, and 15Five provides a way for staff to feel plugged in daily.
- The Pulse Check feature is both easy to use and allows staff and management to gauge how team health is.
- The metric and key performance tools are very well designed.
- Automated reminders and reporting are great features.
- I find the customer services to be best in class.
- If 15five did have an HRIS integration feature or service, this would be valuable.
January 08, 2021
15Five is great for scaling communication in a growing team
We use 15Five across our entire 55-person company. Each employee submits a report that their Direct Support reads and then they pass up any relevant information. I submit a report that is viewable to everyone on the team and I am able to pass up relevant notes from anyone at the company that have been passed up to me. This makes the report from me a weekly overview for the whole team of things going on across the company. We have used it for 7 years and it just keeps getting more valuable each year.
- Scaling communication across a growing team.
- Keeping information top of mind for employees.
- Celebrating wins across an organization.
- The vacation mode seems to be buggy as we'll set it for vacation and still get reminders to fill it out.
- They have added so many features that we don't use, I would like a better overview of everything we can use in a simple to understand format.
January 08, 2021
15Five is a Game Changer
15Five is a great tool Jamboree is using across our organization. It allows us to effectively stay on top of our tasks, collaborate with other departments, and give a quick HighFive to anyone in our company that we want to acknowledge! 15Five has increased our employee engagement and allowed for us to get involved with other departments more than we have in the past. I love the layout and ease of 15Five! I recommend any company that wants to really assess what their employees' goals are, professionally and personally, should try out 15Five!
- Layout and ease of entering in information.
- Seeing goals progressively get completed.
- Professional and Personal development is encouraged with the questions asked.
- The "how are you feeling?" question is a great feature!
- When someone completes a goal, I think it would be cool to recognize that company wide.
- Adding an export feature for 1 on 1 notes would be helpful.
- Incentives for posting HighFives would be cool.
January 08, 2021
15Five for transparent organizations
Our company uses 15Five as a way to track performance of individuals across the company. Each department manages their own application of 15Five and uses to as a check in system each week to keep each individual accountable. Each week, every individual performs an evaluation of themselves on 15Five. This evaluation allows the individual to think about the things they accomplished throughout the week as well as things that they struggled with. This practice allows transparency between an employee and their manager. Employees are able to express their opinions, accomplishments and struggles in an open forum. If desired, these comments can be escalated through the company up to higher management so that the whole organization is aware of problems or wins that the company is going through in a particular week. We also use it to set long term goals and be able to track these goals over a longer period of time. This allows managers to track growth of their employees and help them grow in their particular focus area. Additionally, we use 15Five to keep track of talk points for 1 on 1 meetings that employees have with their managers.
- Goal setting.
- Weekly accomplishments and struggles.
- Company wide suggestion.
- 1-1 Meeting Tracking.
- There could be more functionality for goal setting. Maybe a timeline feature to keep track over time of goals.
- An overall hero widget that displays goals for the week/month/quarter/year.
January 08, 2021
15Five for the WIN in driving and documenting performance!
15Five is used by our entire organization, and was rolled out in 2020. It addresses our business needs for establishing OKR's (Objectives, Key Results), weekly goals that align with our annual and quarterly OKR's and managing our progress. Most importantly, it allows us to communicate our progress is an effective, powerful and simplistic manner to drive productivity.
- Provides a simplistic and systematic way to update weekly goals that align with quarterly goal setting that correlates to established annual OKR (objectives and key results).
- Keeps you on track to drive after, document and modify the tactics and achievements around your performance.
- Cues you to respond weekly with reminders that you look forward to completing and sharing with those who manage you/ colleagues.
- Drives documentation of your progress, tactics and completion of important work performance.
- Motivates you to stay on pace, and also thru the HIGH FIVE function to acknowledge the good work of your team mates!
April 28, 2020
Great for remote employees!
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.
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.
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.
- Online training
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.
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.
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.
December 29, 2019
High Five To 15Five!
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 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.
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 16, 2019
15Five Review
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 13, 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 12, 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.
December 12, 2019
5 Stars for 15Five
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.