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Small Improvements

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What is Small Improvements?

Performance Reviews & 360sProvide employees with structured opportunities for reflection and assessment through performance reviews and peer feedback. Customize the questions, define who participates, establish a cadence that suits an organization’s schedule, and run reviews for different departments at the…

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I Love Small Improvements!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Used to give praise to colleagues, have 1:1s with managers, and set goals. Allows everyone to hold themselves accountable and be aligned with managers on expectations each qua...
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Contributor
Small Improvements3 years of experience

Small Improvements is easy to use and keeps us organized

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 3, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Small Improvements (SI) at our organization to: Manager 1-1 meeting (it's a space to take notes, followup on action items)Create 1-1 calendar events that repeat weeklyM...
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Manager
Small Improvements2 years of experience

Small Improvements offers Moderate Improvements to team sentiment reporting

Rating: 6 out of 10
January 22, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
This tool was used for checking in on employee sentiment and facilitating reviews. It was intended to give the management team a quick overview of how all of the team members ...
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Employee
Small Improvements2 years of experience

Small Improvements is an easy and flexible way to keep track of your projects and goals

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 22, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sojern used SI to manage "Critical 3s" for our analytics department (80-100 people), which is a simple way to track three major projects we'd work on throughout the quarter. O...
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Analyst
Small Improvements1 year of experience

Simple individual goal software...but lacks group goals and therefore might be redundant for some organizations

Rating: 5 out of 10
November 25, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
My company has Small Improvements for all the departments in the company. Primarily, it is used as a goal tracker and feedback tool. We also use it for quarterly self-assessme...
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Ryan Spaulding
Account Manager - Sales
Membership Account Executive
Digital Pharmacist
Small Improvements2 years of experience

A very simple HR tool with poor goals and 1:1 features

Rating: 4 out of 10
November 12, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Small Improvements across the whole organization. We use the following features for the corresponding activities: 360 feedback; quarterly goals for individuals and mana...
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Dmitry Pashkevich
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Calendly
Small Improvements1 year of experience

One stop for review, meeting and recognition tracking

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 29, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Small Improvements in three majors ways within our organization. The first is for on the stop recognition of a peer, we have four main values which we live by at our co...
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Verified user
Project Manager
Small Improvements1 year of experience

Making check-ins easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Small Improvements holds our org chart, records employee goals, performance, and is a platform for employees to give each other public praise across the business. It is owned/...
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Verified user
Manager
Small Improvements1 year of experience

Small Improvements: Functional and useful if a bit basic

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 20, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Small Improvements is a basic tool that my company uses for end of the year performance reviews and future goal setting. The program is functional and easy to operate. It help...
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Verified user
Manager
Small Improvements2 years of experience

Does The Job But Not A Market Leader

Rating: 5 out of 10
March 29, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Small Improvements as a way to send personal feedback to co-workers across the organization. Furthermore, we use Small Improvements to request feedback, provide 1:1 and...
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Dustin Hovey
Strategist - Marketing
Sr. Strategist & SEM Manager
SendGrid
Small Improvements3 years of experience

Small Improvements + Digital Paid Media Agencies

Rating: 6 out of 10
February 1, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Small Improvements is a great way for us as a company to engage with each other, give and receive feedback, get one-on-one support, meet our personal goals & objectives, a...
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Austin Voigt
Analyst - Marketing
Senior Analyst - Paid Media
Augurian
Small Improvements1 year of experience
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Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
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Pricing

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Engagement and Retention Add-on

$2

Cloud
per user, per month

Performance Starter Pack

$5

Cloud
per user, per month

Feedback and Performance Suite

$7

Cloud
per user, per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

8.3
Avg 7.5

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

9.3
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Small Improvements?

Performance Reviews & 360s
Provide employees with structured opportunities for reflection and assessment through performance reviews and peer feedback. Customize the questions, define who participates, establish a cadence that suits an organization’s schedule, and run reviews for different departments at the same time.

Ongoing Feedback
Praise coworkers for a job well done and request feedback at any time from anyone. Prepare for 1:1s and share notes afterward to make sure you are aligned.

Objectives
Keep employees accountable and help them grow by setting objectives and tracking key results. Objectives can be shared with managers, the team, or the entire company, so it’s easy to understand everyone’s priorities, communicate progress, and receive valuable feedback from others.

Pulse Surveys
Gather real-time employee feedback through frequent Pulse Surveys to improve employee experience year-round.

Retention Analytics
Quickly identify teams or employees that might need your attention. Retention Analytics predicts which employees are most likely to leave so you can take action before they do.

Small Improvements Features

Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Performance plans
  • Supported: Manager note taking
  • Supported: Review status tracking
  • Supported: Rater nominations
  • Supported: Rater nomination workflow
  • Supported: Review reminders
  • Supported: Workflow restrictions
  • Supported: Review transfer
  • Supported: Multiple review frequency
  • Supported: Reporting

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Individual goal setting
  • Supported: Non-hierarchical goal setting
  • Supported: Performance tracking

Additional Features

  • Supported: 360-Degree Feedback
  • Supported: 1:1 Meetings
  • Supported: Praise
  • Supported: Feedback Requests
  • Supported: Pulse Surveys
  • Supported: Retention Analytics

Small Improvements Screenshots

Screenshot of Provide employees with structured opportunities for reflection and assessment through Performance ReviewsScreenshot of Decide whether or not you want manager to approve nominations for 360 FeedbackScreenshot of Share agenda items, meeting notes, and follow-up discussions with 1:1 MeetingsScreenshot of Create templated 1:1 meeting agendas for your managersScreenshot of Identify goals, set success measures, and track the results with ObjectivesScreenshot of Give public kudos to your colleagues with PraiseScreenshot of Use our Slack integration to create 1:1 meeting agendas and publicly share Praises and ObjectivesScreenshot of Track completion rates and nudge participants directly from our reportingScreenshot of Track employee engagement over time with frequent Pulse SurveysScreenshot of See who is likely to leave soon with Retention Analytics

Small Improvements Integrations

Small Improvements Competitors

Small Improvements Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

Lattice, 15Five, and Reflektive are common alternatives for Small Improvements.

Reviewers rate Individual goal setting and Performance plans and Manager note taking highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Small Improvements are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Small Improvements is a versatile tool that caters to various needs within an organization. Users have found it incredibly useful for 360 feedback, allowing them to easily send personal feedback to co-workers across the organization. This feature fosters a culture of continuous improvement and open communication. Additionally, Small Improvements serves as a reliable resource for conducting regular reviews and keeping track of personal and company goals. With the ability to request feedback, provide 1:1 and 360 reviews, and display positive comments on the praise wall, employees can engage in interference-free reviews where managers review them while they review themselves.

Moreover, Small Improvements acts as a goal tracker and feedback tool, facilitating quarterly self-assessments. The platform enables users to create recurring 1:1 calendar events for regular meetings, ensuring that catch-ups between employees and managers occur regularly. It also tracks the progress of major projects throughout the quarter, thanks to its flexibility for ad-hoc work. Small Improvements further supports end-of-year performance reviews and future goal setting. The program's functionality and user-friendly interface make it easy to operate, providing employees with a satisfactory platform for self-assessments and manager reviews. By recording employee goals, performance, and public praise in one centralized location, Small Improvements ensures that all team members are aligned and recognized appropriately.

Users have shared a variety of recommendations for Small Improvements based on their experiences. They suggest integrating Small Improvements with Slack, making it a valuable tool for Talent Management. This integration enhances communication and collaboration within teams.

Another recommendation is to use Small Improvements to effectively track team progress, enabling easier monitoring of individual and collective performance.

Users also highly praise Small Improvements for its usefulness in facilitating 360 feedback and serving as a platform for documenting 1:1 meeting notes. This feature greatly improves communication and enables thorough documentation of feedback and discussions between employees and managers.

To maximize the benefits of Small Improvements, users advise conducting training sessions to ensure the entire team is proficient in using the tool. They find it particularly valuable for note-taking during meetings, goal setting, creating templates, and providing positive reinforcement. Additionally, running demos of the tool can help consolidate initiatives, track progress, and customize features based on specific needs.

While users find Small Improvements to be superior to Workday in terms of functionality, they do recommend some improvements to the user interface for a smoother user experience.

Users suggest trying the trial version of Small Improvements to assess its compatibility with the company's requirements. However, they do note that pricing might be higher for smaller teams.

Furthermore, users emphasize the importance of providing genuine feedback through Small Improvements, as managers appreciate this format. It is also recommended to assess the organization's needs before deciding if Small Improvements is the right fit, especially considering potential growth and the need for more advanced features and HRIS integration.

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I Love Small Improvements!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used to give praise to colleagues, have 1:1s with managers, and set goals. Allows everyone to hold themselves accountable and be aligned with managers on expectations each quarter which is nice when it's time to review and reassess at the start of the next quarter. You can also request feedback from other teammates to get better insight into how others perceive working with you and possible room for improvement.

Small Improvements offers Moderate Improvements to team sentiment reporting

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
January 22, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
This tool was used for checking in on employee sentiment and facilitating reviews. It was intended to give the management team a quick overview of how all of the team members were tracking at any given point in time. All team members were given access to it to answer their regular questions and 360 degree feedback as well as 1:1s were recorded in it.

Small Improvements is an easy and flexible way to keep track of your projects and goals

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 22, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sojern used SI to manage "Critical 3s" for our analytics department (80-100 people), which is a simple way to track three major projects we'd work on throughout the quarter. Our company was pretty flexible with projects and most of our work was ad-hoc, so being able to have very loose guidelines is a great advantage of SI.

Simple individual goal software...but lacks group goals and therefore might be redundant for some organizations

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
November 25, 2019
RS
Ryan Spaulding
Membership Account Executive
Digital Pharmacist (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My company has Small Improvements for all the departments in the company. Primarily, it is used as a goal tracker and feedback tool. We also use it for quarterly self-assessments.

A very simple HR tool with poor goals and 1:1 features

Rating: 4 out of 10
Incentivized
November 12, 2019
DP
Dmitry Pashkevich
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Calendly (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Small Improvements across the whole organization. We use the following features for the corresponding activities: 360 feedback; quarterly goals for individuals and managers; 1:1 tool; employee performance reviews.

One stop for review, meeting and recognition tracking

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 29, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Small Improvements in three majors ways within our organization. The first is for on the stop recognition of a peer, we have four main values which we live by at our company and whenever someone does something around one of those, they're recognized at our daily stand-up call and it is also recorded in Small Improvements. For this alone, Small Improvements has been an outstanding tool given how easy it is to use. The second way we make use of the tool is to track 1:1 meetings between employees and managers. I meet with my manager every two weeks and we just enter the scheduled call into the Small Improvements site and both my manager and I can add items we'd like to discuss during the call. The outcome of the call is that we track what was discussed and any deliverables. The third major function within our organization is for quarterly and yearly performance reviews where employees can seek 360 feedback, enter their self-assessment and receive their review from their manager. The tool is easy to use for this function, everything is in one spot and easy to track for follow-up and progress reports.

Making check-ins easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 21, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Small Improvements holds our org chart, records employee goals, performance, and is a platform for employees to give each other public praise across the business. It is owned/admin'd by the HR team and used by all employees. We use it to track and ensure regular catch-ups between employees and managers are occurring, for individuals to track their progress against goals and to encourage positive reinforcement with praise.

Small Improvements: Functional and useful if a bit basic

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
December 20, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Small Improvements is a basic tool that my company uses for end of the year performance reviews and future goal setting. The program is functional and easy to operate. It helps delineate when an employee should put in their self assessment and when the manager should complete their review. It is totally sufficient for what it needs to provide.

Does The Job But Not A Market Leader

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
March 29, 2018
DH
Dustin Hovey
Sr. Strategist & SEM Manager
SendGrid (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Small Improvements as a way to send personal feedback to co-workers across the organization. Furthermore, we use Small Improvements to request feedback, provide 1:1 and 360 reviews, there is also a praise wall for users that want to make their positive comments visible to everyone. The tool also keeps track of personal and company goals, it serves as a resource when conducting regular reviews.

Small Improvements + Digital Paid Media Agencies

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
February 01, 2018
AV
Austin Voigt
Senior Analyst - Paid Media
Augurian (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Small Improvements
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Small Improvements is a great way for us as a company to engage with each other, give and receive feedback, get one-on-one support, meet our personal goals & objectives, and go through performance reviews. It is especially helpful for the review process, as it allows employees to review themselves while managers review them, and keep both reviews free from interference with each other.
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