Overview
What is PiiQ by Cornerstone?
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.
Very Good Electronic Performance Management Solution for Emerging Growth Companies.
It's an Efficient System
PiiQ Cornerstone review for SME
PiiQ - our easy to use LMS
PIIQ - Performance Management
PiiQ used in SW-Consultant company
Performance management at your fingertips
Solid, Flexible Offering with Great User Experience.
PiiQ, good for out-of-the-box, not for customization
Long-time Customer
PiiQ by Cornerstone - a Snappy Online Tool backed by Superior Service
PiiQ has made my life easier.
Very positive. Highly recommended.
PiiQ by Cornerstone training aligns with our core values and provides needed training for our employees
A great performance and learning system for small to medium business!
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Popular Features
- Course catalog or library (11)6.868%
- Assignments (11)6.767%
- Learning content (11)6.666%
- Course authoring (11)6.060%
Pricing
PiiQ Performance
$8.00
PiiQ Learning + Content
$8.00
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance
$15.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- $1,000 per installationOptional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Learning Management
Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.
- 6Course authoring(11) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 6.8Course catalog or library(11) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 6.8Player/Portal(10) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 6.6Learning content(11) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 7.9Mobile friendly(8) Ratings
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
- 6.2Progress tracking & certifications(10) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 6.7Assignments(11) Ratings
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
- 5.8Compliance management(9) Ratings
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
- 6.6Learning administration(11) Ratings
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
- 6.9Learning reporting & analytics(11) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
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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 |
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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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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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(1-25 of 25)It's an Efficient System
- User-friendly.
- It's easy to update goals and to complete reviews.
- We're able to have peer reviews.
- Adding new roles and assigning goals to each specific role can be time-consuming.
- We would like to be able to have the option of typing the weights.
PiiQ Cornerstone review for SME
- Easy implementation of the review.
- Easy discussion happening thanks to the check-in function.
- Great analytic tool for manager and HR.
- Could be easier if automatic reminder could be scheduled, it is still quite manual to remind everyone of the deadline in self-review and submission.
PIIQ - Performance Management
- User-friendly
- Easy overview and easy to use for first-timers.
- Reporting.
- Being able to select more than one person when approving goals.
- Options to identify which people managers haven't approved goals, dine a review etc...rather then having to mimic each manager to see how they are going.
- 360 Feedback to stakeholders outside the business.
- Being able to remove a role that isn't being used in the organization anymore.
Performance management at your fingertips
- Clean and intuitive, user-friendly user interface
- Availability of tools eg reports to help Managers/ Company make better informed decisions
- Convenience of being able to access system via PC, smartphones and tablets
- Automated reminders
- Helpful and prompt customer service over e-mail
- Ability to copy goals across different employees by Managers has not been made available
- Terminologies can be confusing for some users
- Users should be able to allocate different weightings for each goal according to job function
Solid, Flexible Offering with Great User Experience.
- User Interface
- Sliders and Text Based Answers
- Check In Feature is nice
- Goal alignment/cascading in an OKR format does not exist. You cannot share goals and have them roll up to see how that objective is being accomplished cross functionally.
- 9 box trends over time does not exist.
PiiQ, good for out-of-the-box, not for customization
- The goals are clear and easy to use.
- The support team is excellent. They help find solutions to our use cases and will help implement it.
- My Check-in is a nice feature to track conversations but doesn't integrate with Outlook or other calendars. It makes for a multiple step process because most users aren't in PiiQ on a daily basis to track things.
- It would be nice to be able to customize certain fields, titles, heading. It isn't as flexible as we would like it to be to match the language we use at the company related to performance management.
As we have matured in how we want to manage performance management with some more customized forms and process, it seems we have outgrown PiiQ. It's not great if you want a lot of customization.
PiiQ has made my life easier.
- You can create custom learning content and include links from multiple sources.
- PiiQ Performance enables us to get a solid view of our entire organization. This is particularly helpful when looking to make personnel changes that support the business.
- Managing the compliance of the performance review process was always challenging. With PiiQ, I can get real time data of exactly where we are in our review process.
- I would like to see the reporting be more robust.
- I would like to see the 9 box grid include kites and arrows like what existed in Sonar 6.
- I would like to be able to have testing on the performance side.
Great system. Don't be daunted by the setup - the value it adds to your business is worth it.
- Great way to visually identify how different staff members are progressing and performing
- Simple and intuitive interface for staff members to use - making the process of job performance reviews more enjoyable
- Good existing library of competencies to draw upon
- Would be good to have have a virtual "top level" (eg board) user built in to allow senior execs without a direct manager to be able to be set up with KPIs instead of having to create a dummy user
- Reports have difficulty downloading if pop ups disabled or in some browser environments
- When competencies are updated while a cycle is open, any changes don't effect that open cycle but only future ones. Would be nice to be able to have the option to apply changes to existing "open" cycles
My PiiQ by Cornerstone Review
- Customization
- Detailed spreadsheets
- Mimic mode
- The way that weighting is indicated on goals would be easier if you could just type in a number instead of those dots.
- Not having the weightings automatically added/included to blank/empty goals
- A feature that allows other managers to provide input on employees reviews (on the actual review, not via 360)
Great tool when set up correctly
- Great digital solution
- Dashboard is easy to navigate/user-friendly
- We like that we can mimic employees to make sure everything is set up correctly
- Maybe provide an actual person to help with implementation
- We did not use the goals section which makes excellent employees look marginal
- It can be a little confusing trying to set up the questions for employees
- Digitizes a traditionally paper process
- Good user interface
- Very customizable
- Needs drag and drop functionality
- Once you set up a review cycle it is very difficult to make significant modifications without starting anew.
Good for simple setups
- With PiiQ managers could have employee specific goals verses the same goals for all employees in a specific classification.
- Allowing printing of just the signature page.
- Making it easier to make changes across the board.
We use the 360 review functionality every 3rd quarter for the management team and the annual review process for all staff every 4th quarter.
- PiiQ Learning has extensive content organized by category to make it easy to find and assign courses to the staff; managers and employees can assign training.
- Reporting in both the learning and performance modules is simple and easy to understand. Particularly the graphics in the learning module are visually clear.
- I thought the performance module was fairly user-friendly last year, but having the ability to make changes without contacting support has been wonderful this year.
- I would like to have the ability to create profiles in the learning system so that when I onboard a new employee, I can assign training at the click of a button based on their role in the organization.
- I would like the ability for managers to be able to hide comments in the check-in feature; there are some notes that managers may need to refer to during a check-in that are not always appropriate to share with the employee at that time.
- I would love to submit a request in the learning portal for courses that are not in my package that I would like to add to the system. For example, if I need a course related to case management for social workers, I would like to be able to search other partners (from the learning portal) to see if there are courses in other packages or from other providers that I could purchase.
PiiQ by Cornerstone
- 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.
Small Agency Using PiiQ to Grow
- 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
Good system, implemented into a professional services firm, still improving as we go!
- 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.
Visible system for PA-PiiQ
- 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
- 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.
PiiQ ease of use proves beneficial across all departments
- Their competency templates
- Cyber U videos
- Customer service
- Opportunity to adjust competency templates without erasing all past information
Why you should consider PiiQ
- 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.
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- 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.
CSOD Fail
- Organisation structures
- SCORM
- Branding
- Usability
- Mobile friendly
- Support
- 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)
Easy-to-use, visually appealing performance appraisal system!
- 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.
Prior to CSB, our organization used another system (Halogen) which honestly took weeks to set up for mid-year and end-year reviews. It was an absolute nightmare. Then, from the employee perspective, it was also a nightmare to complete the review. Our employees and admins had terrible feedback on the system.
Since we had a terrible system to begin with (and only did paper reviews before that), CSB was a welcome upgrade!
Simpler than SuccessFactors and has features we need.
- 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?