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Cornerstone’s PiiQ is an SMB offering formerly known as Sonar6. PiiQ is aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and includes core learning management and performance management systems, including content creation, mobile accessibility, and in-product reporting.
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What is PiiQ by Cornerstone?
PiiQ by Cornerstone is performance and learning management software designed for small to medium businesses (ideal for companies with fewer than 100 employees). The software drives employee engagement and productivity with its performance management tools and helps companies build a culture of continuous learning and development with a robust library of on-demand courses. The vendor’s value proposition is that managers can get up and running fast with the self-configurable and intuitive set-up.
PiiQ offers a suite of products; choose PiiQ Performance, PiiQ Learning, or both in one, simple platform.
PiiQ Performance:
- Collaborative, continuous goal setting
- Continuous feedback
- Comprehensive, well-designed dashboards and reports to find hidden training needs, skill gaps, and struggling & outstanding employees
- 9-box talent matrix graphs and employee profile
- Easily configurable (no costly implementations!)
- 360 reviews
- Overall score & manager comments
PiiQ Learning:
- Searchable library and self-registration
- Compliance and training courses ranging from technical to soft skills
- Ability to create your own courses
- Reporting and insights dashboard
- Mobile learning on the go
- Learning Content through Cornerstone's Premier Content Partner, CyberU
PiiQ also offers a service and support team that aims to help businesses optimize the use of the products and enable success. Support ranges from immediate telephone support to full consulting packages – companies have the choice in how much they need.
PiiQ by Cornerstone Features
Learning Management Features
- Supported: Course authoring
- Supported: Course catalog or library
- Supported: Player/Portal
- Supported: Learning content
- Supported: Mobile friendly
- Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
- Supported: Assignments
- Supported: Compliance management
- Supported: Learning administration
- Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
- Supported: eLearning
- Supported: Micro-learning
- Supported: Video learning
Additional Features
- Supported: Goal Setting
- Supported: Check-ins
- Supported: 360 Feedback
- Supported: 9-box Talent Matrix
- Supported: Self-assessment
- Supported: Manager Review
- Supported: Competency Library
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PiiQ by Cornerstone Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland |
| Supported Languages | English |
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Cornerstone’s PiiQ is an SMB offering formerly known as Sonar6. PiiQ is aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and includes core learning management and performance management systems, including content creation, mobile accessibility, and in-product reporting.
Reviewers rate Mobile friendly highest, with a score of 7.9.
The most common users of PiiQ by Cornerstone are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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PiiQ by Cornerstone is a versatile performance management system that has been widely adopted across various organizations. Users have found value in using PiiQ for employee goal setting, periodic check-ins, and annual performance reviews. The software allows employees to draft their own goals and self-assessments, fostering trust and engagement with their managers and the company. The built-in 9-box analysis provides teams or departments with a useful context for development and training. PiiQ is not only used as a performance management SAAS across the entire enterprise in 22 states, but it is also utilized for providing required compliance courses such as workplace ethics, diversity, construction zone safety, and harassment prevention. Managers and trainers are mandated to take courses on topics such as coaching, approachability, performance appraisals, and leadership skills. PiiQ has been instrumental in helping organizations identify skill gaps among employees and provide new skills to reinforce desired performance results. It supports ongoing learning and development by offering access to e-learning solutions. Additionally, PiiQ is effective in conducting annual performance evaluations and implementing a formal review process that ensures a consistent evaluation of talent at the same time and in the same way. The software's global usage for annual performance reviews provides detailed analytical reports that can inform salary reviews and career advancement decisions. Users also benefit from PiiQ's regular tracking capabilities for monthly or quarterly progress updates, self-review processes, seeking 360 feedback, and aligning strategic goals between managers and employees. Furthermore, PiiQ acts as a communication vehicle to address engagement issues and support future actions to improve overall performance within the organization. With its user-friendly interface, PiiQ enables employees to strive for peak performance while supporting their career growth and learning journey. However, some users have experienced challenges with the latest upgrade of the software, finding it less user-friendly than expected. They reported difficulties in navigating changes to the setup process and terminating user accounts. Additionally, some users have expressed the need for a more mobile-friendly and simple system for administrators. Nonetheless, PiiQ has successfully transformed manual performance monitoring into a computerized system, improving effectiveness, transparency, and data collection for analysis. Overall, PiiQ by Cornerstone has become an indispensable tool for organizations seeking to optimize their performance management processes and drive better talent conversations and career growth.
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June 25, 2018
PiiQ by Cornerstone
We use PiiQ to manage our performance management program across our company.
- PiiQ provides a basic platform to allow managers and employees to address performance.
- The ease of managing users is particularly easy.
- PiiQ also showcases performance by team member via a grid. This allows managers to view their team members by performance level.
- PiiQ has a basic platform. The user interface is poor and does not provide flexibility for administrator to make changes to it.
- There is a 360 component to PiiQ however, you cannot adjust for anonymous feedback. Every manager that requests will see exactly who shared feedback
- PiiQ allows you to set a review timeline but not a true workflow. (i.e. self review> 360> manager review> 2nd level approver> HR approver)
- There are system generated messages but the administrator can not customize them to fit their organizations needs.
- The system does not have a "sign-off" on review. You must create one that looks and feels like it is a misfit.
February 13, 2018
Small Agency Using PiiQ to Grow
We are using PiiQ to manage our employee goal setting, performance reviews and for 360 feedback. It is being used across our whole organization and it allows us to support our team goals and professional development.
- The system is very user-friendly
- I love how it provides examples of roles and goals to build off of.
- I wish it was easier to create employee logins without having them go through the forgot password process
February 13, 2018
Good system, implemented into a professional services firm, still improving as we go!
Used by whole organisation. Some areas of the business would like an area where they can record smaller job appraisals on an ongoing basis throughout the year, and then refer to this when completing a 6 monthly review.
- Looks modern and appealing
- Easy to use and follow
- 360 Feedback function is great
- Add a section where you can record ongoing feedback throughout the year, separate to the reviews. Then managers can refer to this section when completing a review.
- Allow more flexibility in wording. I.e. administrators should be able to control what the automated email reminders say.
- Remove the close date for the reviews so users can't see this. We often tell people to complete their reviews by x date, but don't set the close date until a week or two later. We don't want people to see the later (actual) date.
- Allow more than one manager to be allocated to an employee. We often have people reporting to two managers, and they both want input into the review.
February 13, 2018
Visible system for PA-PiiQ
We use Cornerstone globally for annual performance reviews. We have been using PiiQ from Cornerstone for 3 years. I feel after the upgrade, PiiQ has improved the interface so it is more user friendly and can provide detailed analytical reports. The internet speed from China has been improved as well. I like it.
- Friendly dashboard interface
- Score reports by performance and competency
- Nice boxes position to view incumbents' potential and performance
- So far, cannot manually input the weight of each goal. Would like the weighting of each goals have the option to be manually input
- Option to re-define goals and process/personal improvement
PiiQ by Cornerstone is the performance management system we use in our corporate office where our key business functions are domiciled. Those functions include finance, real estate development, property management, architecture, corporate communications/fund development, and human resources administration. We have deployed it as an interactive system for employee goal setting, periodic performance "check-in" meetings, and annual performance/merit review. It has been a key tool in moving from an annual, angst-ridden review experience toward a more useful dialog at different points during the year. The employees can draft their own goals and their self-assessment which helps build trust and engagement with their direct manager and the company as a whole. Also, the built-in 9-box analysis enables us to see team or department performance within a useful context for development and training.
- Enables employees to draft work goals and collaborate with their supervisors on a final version - improves mutual understanding right up front.
- Combines performance goal ratings with competency ratings and provides a blended score. Simplifies the goal weighting so you don't have to do any calculations.
- 9-box matrix provides useful definitions and descriptions so managers can prepare development notes or plans for individual employees.
- Need to include a signature line or checkbox where the employee can acknowledge receipt and review of the final document as submitted by the manager (and the date of same). This would be very helpful so there is no viable argument about the content of the document especially if an employee dispute and/or lawsuit regarding performance issues arises in the future.
- A feature enabling employees to print out the final document. Right now, only the manager has a print command button on the screen. The employee can attempt this by using the browser’s menu option (i.e. mouse right click > print command) but the resulting hard copy is incomplete and poorly formatted. The word processor within Piiq has somewhat limited features compared to what is available in MS Word or even the more basic Windows Wordpad. But the interface is improved from the earlier version.
- The final print out doesn’t match the screen output. Ratings that are displayed graphically on the screen are Instead displayed as text. The end result is wordy and, at best, awkward to read.
- A 360-degree review that can be sent to parties outside the company would be helpful, especially for rating senior managers and executives who have extensive vendor or third-party relationships contributing to the overall performance rating.
January 31, 2018
PiiQ Your Review!
We use PiiQ annually for performance reviews although we engage with the platform as regularly as monthly or quarterly 121s to document progress against targets and goals, to self-review, seek 360 feedback, so that by the end of the year and the annual review is due, we have captured data/feedback/assessments all throughout the year.
We use it across our whole business including remote workers which use the platform via an app. The best thing it gives HR and managers is a helicopter view of employees and performance/behaviours to support future actions - performance improvement, coaching, or succession planning or progression plans
- We can use it for remote workers through an app - allows self-review.
- The best thing it gives HR and managers is a helicopter view of employees and performance/behaviours to support future actions - performance improvement, coaching, or succession planning or progression plans.
- 360-degree feedback requested through the system to add value to reviews and assessments.
- More guidance around the 9 box grid outcomes and how to support/improve your employee.
- We use BambooHR and the two systems use to talk and would import new starters - that feature is missing now.
January 30, 2018
PiiQ ease of use proves beneficial across all departments
We use PiiQ for performance management tracking as well as learning and informational videos.
- Their competency templates
- Cyber U videos
- Customer service
- Opportunity to adjust competency templates without erasing all past information
January 30, 2018
Why you should consider PiiQ
We use PiiQ for all staff for period goal settings, annual reviews, and 90 day reviews. We also use its learning capabilities. You need to measure performance or goals consistently in business to always continue to improve. The tools and reports give you this opportunity with this software.
- Customer Service is outstanding
- User friendly
- Excellent help content and examples to get you started
- You can't goal headers. Once something is in the library it will always show up when you set a goal period. I have had frustrated Managers because of this aspect but it could be fixed.
- They are working on better one off review functions. It is a continuous tracking module but some companies like to do certain reviews with certain questions only at any time.
January 30, 2018
Need to fix the reporting on this product!
We use it to develop annual performance goals then rate those goals as well as other competencies.
- Fairly intuitive to use
- Good database of competencies
- The reporting is terrible. We wanted to print out each person's complete evaluation and that functionality is not available. We ended up printing screenshots page-by-page which was a huge waste of time. Need to fix this or will not be continuing as client.
- There were issues with the "bubbles" vs. the ratings and confusion with that.
- Percentages were off and took a lot of time to resolve.
January 30, 2018
Cornerstone On Demand Cares What You Think!
We selected Cornerstone on Demand about 4 years ago because the concepts and values aligned with our company objectives program, and the system was an easier way to monitor and collect data from the employees. We converted over to the PiiQ website last September, and we stayed with the new system because it still aligns very nicely with our company objectives. All our organization uses the performance module from the CEO down to our service group. We align our whole company with three objectives, and their assignments for the year will focus on either 1 or all 3 of the objectives. This year our company is focusing on execution, and the employee's goals reflect that objective. The tool helps us keep everyone aligned, and on target for 4 quarterly reviews. We use the results for incentive pay across the organization.
- The new system (PiiQ) is very systematic in the design and implementation. It is consistent from employee use to the use of a supervisor.
- It is simplistic and user-friendly. Although, teaching the new system coming from the old system has been difficult. I finally had to design a "guide sheet" with simple instructions to get our users more familiar with the way the new system is laid out. It has taken some time, but I think most users now "get it."
- The new administrative side is much more effective, and allows the administrators to assist others more effectively. I haven't re-designed anything else since switching, but may do so in the future (which we couldn't do ourselves on the old system).
- They have made vast improvements with their customer service. I now get the help much easier and quicker. Thank goodness.
- The language Cornerstone chose to use "submit," "unsubmit," and "confirm" has been very confusing, and the hardest concept to teach, and from feedback from the supervisors, they dislike having to go to the extra step of confirming the goals. I completely understand why that step is necessary, and it makes it more necessary for the supervisor to have that conversation with their employee as they move through the steps.
- I mentioned this to one of the customer service agents, and they said it was very low on the priority from the feedback, but I really loved the organization tree that was available in the old system. It was a quick way to see that I had everyone reporting to the right people, and easier to see organization as a whole.
March 15, 2017
CSOD Fail
It was being used for one department for testing and then we were thinking about rolling out to others but found it was not fit for purpose. This was for a few reasons. Firstly, we needed something mobile friendly and we also needed a simple user friendly system for administrators which we found this was not.
- Organisation structures
- SCORM
- Branding
- Usability
- Mobile friendly
- Support
February 16, 2015
Good for the right frequency and feedback loop.
Cornerstone Growth Edition was our organization's first automated performance management system. When this was rolled out to a software company, the adoption of it was well received because of the look and the ability to adjust gummies with further explanation. The self assessment piece worked really well with establishing clear goals and allowing team members to rate themselves. This allowed for content to drive performance conversations between the team lead and team member.
- CornerStone Growth Edition allows for more variability when rating individuals. It wasn't just a clear excellent or missed it. This allowed us to relay all context with each situation.
- CornerStone Growth Edition was flexible with the terminology we wanted to use during the set up of the system.
- The helicopter view of performers was a great tool to stack rank team members across the board.
- When I used it, Cornerstone Growth Edition had the opportunity to improve its reporting features. It was hard to tell who had completed ratings and who had not. There was also no custom reporting feature.
- We are no longer using Cornerstone because we needed a system that would help us give continuous feedback and direction. We decided that every six months was not enough for our changing work environment.
We use the system for all of our office employees across the whole organization.It has helped us become more paperless by eliminating paper reviews. It also helped us to enable 360 performance reviews throughout the company.
- Paperless performance reviews
- 360 reviews
- Easy end-user interface
- Unable to use the performance system on iPad
- Unable to work offline so data can be lost rather easily when not using a strong internet connection (airplane, wireless, etc)
February 15, 2014
Easy-to-use, visually appealing performance appraisal system!
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
- Really easy and straightforward to complete objectives and performance reviews. Anyone can figure this system out without referring to the manual!
- Visual representation of performance (ex. sliding scale reviews, 9-box grid) is compelling and is a great snapshot of overall performance and objectives.
- Overall comparisons between direct reports' performance reviews and objectives are easily accessible for managers
- It's so easy to switch from the current performance appraisal period to older data for comparison
- I really like how you can add Notes (qualitative data) easily to objectives and self-appraisals.
- Setup and ongoing maintenance can be frustrating, needs more options for customization. We have to call their help line almost every day when we're setting up the system for the next appraisal period, and a lot of our requested features
- Needs better user management, should be much more user-friendly, process on handling terminated employees doesn't make the most sense (ex. it's unfortunate that we have to pay an extra fee to download data if we would want to delete users in the system. I wish we would "hide" terminated/inactive employees so they don't show up with giant Xs across their chest - it's really weird and it looks like they're on a hit list.)
- Reporting is very limited. If there is a manager with four direct reports and I, as an admin, want to see how much of each review the manager has completed so far, I can't. The numbers are only reported in the aggregate. If CSB added more in-depth reports, the system would be greatly improved.
- I think it's silly that you need to click "Save" and that the data entered does not save automatically. I shouldn't have to remind employees to always click on "Save" every few minutes.
- I wish the "Share" feature was more pronounced and obvious. This is probably the number one question we get - "how do I share my review with my manager?" Also, managers are never notified via e-mail upon successful completion of a self-appraisal. More notifications would be great and would remove lots of guesswork or missed time. We are on an extremely tight schedule for performance reviews and want to make sure people have enough time to complete the process.
- It's ridiculous that Admins cannot download employee data and reviews directly from their Admin accounts. We shouldn't have to sign in as an employee's manager to read or download their reviews. Imagine doing this for 300+ employees.
November 01, 2012
Simpler than SuccessFactors and has features we need.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It takes a lot of the fear out of performance reviews. We were very liberal about the way we implemented performance reviews before. As we grew, we knew we needed to be more organized. We wanted something that fit our culture – simple to use – and not just something that someone would use twice a year, but would use in 1-1s. It's simpler than Success Factors and happens to have features we’re looking for.
- The analytics are good and the graphical interface is engaging. The analytics allow you to benchmark employees against each other in a non-threatening way.
- The way it saves data/changes is a little archaic. I have gotten complaints from people doing hours of work and losing it.
- It could be more proactive in notifications. Notifications could be improved.
- It could provide more direction for users to know when they are complete with a review. There’s no you’re done with this review. This is important for compliance reasons when you are trying to get through reviews. They do have an indicator of completeness for reviews, a progress bar for your whole team but not for individual reviews. I keep getting the question from my staff, am I done?