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Small Improvements is a versatile tool that caters to various needs within an organization. Users have found it incredibly useful for 360 …
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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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- Review status tracking (8)9.797%
- Performance tracking (7)9.191%
- Individual goal setting (8)8.989%
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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
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Small Improvements Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
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Reviewers rate Manager note taking and Review reminders 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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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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November 25, 2019
Simple individual goal software...but lacks group goals and therefore might be redundant for some organizations
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.
- Simple to use.
- Easy to make goals, track progress and refer back to past goals.
- The "Your Company" directory is very useful.
- Since the goals are tied to individuals, it does not allow for departmental goals.
- Goals cannot be updated to show how much progress has been made. It is either 0 or 100%.
- The software needs more reminders and nudges.
74%
7.4
70%
7.0
- Before we had Small Improvements, personal goal setting was completely disorganized. Some managers made sure it was done, likewise many did not.
- Having past goals collected in one repository has been a blessing. I couldn't imagine not having Small Improvements or something comparable.
November 12, 2019
A very simple HR tool with poor goals and 1:1 features
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.
- The 360 feedback tool is straightforward to use and does exactly what it's meant to do: collect private and public feedback across peers (managers can use it too, of course).
- The 1:1 tool automatically detects 1:1 meetings on your connected Calendar, automatically creates entries for these meetings in the system and reminds you of the upcoming 1:1s.
- The 1:1 tool allows both parties to create a checklist for agenda items and notifies you when the other party added agenda items or general notes.
- While the structured agenda format in the 1:1 tool has advantages, it also limits formatting options that you would otherwise have if you used a plain Google Doc shared with the other person.
- 1:1 tool doesn't let parties add inline notes/comments under each agenda item, which makes it hard to organize notes during the actual meetings.
- 1:1 tool lets you mark agenda items as done, but surprisingly doesn't let you copy or move "unchecked" items to the next meeting if you didn't have time to go over them. Lattice does that.
- 1:1 tool only seems to create an entry for the next meeting on the next day after the current meeting happens. This is inconvenient because I might want to add notes for the future meeting right after my 1:1 happened.
- The goal tool makes people's goals private by default, and there's no way to change that setting. Not good if your company embraces transparency and uses a framework like OKR for goal-setting (which prescribes that everyone's OKR is public).
- The goal tool doesn't automatically compute the overall goal progress based on key results progress.
- The goal tool doesn't seem to support departmental and overall company goals, it only ties goals to individuals. That means you have to keep track of the former somewhere else.
- The goal tool doesn't support setting non-binary progress for key results inside an objective. You can only check or uncheck the entire key result. Not good for OKR. Lattice has much stronger goal-setting features compared to Small Improvements.
20%
2.0
30%
3.0
- It's been less than a year since we rolled out Small Improvements, so it's too early to tell.
While still far from perfect, Lattice has much stronger goal-setting and 1:1 features (see my list of areas for improvement above).
At another company, we put all OKR in Confluence and used Google Drive (specifically Google Docs) for 1:1 notes and performance evaluations. While it may seem cumbersome to conduct something like a performance review process via Google Docs, I appreciated the flexibility that it offered. I also still think that shared Google Doc is a perfectly fine tool for 1:1 notes (it even has assignable tasks now), and Confluence is a perfectly fine tool for defining OKR and tracking progress. Keep it simple (c).
At another company, we put all OKR in Confluence and used Google Drive (specifically Google Docs) for 1:1 notes and performance evaluations. While it may seem cumbersome to conduct something like a performance review process via Google Docs, I appreciated the flexibility that it offered. I also still think that shared Google Doc is a perfectly fine tool for 1:1 notes (it even has assignable tasks now), and Confluence is a perfectly fine tool for defining OKR and tracking progress. Keep it simple (c).
October 29, 2019
One stop for review, meeting and recognition tracking
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.
- Instant on-the-spot employee and peer recognition
- 1:1 Meeting tracker
- Yearly performance reviews
- Interface can be cluttered at times
- There isn't a lot of help or knowledge readily available when first using the tool
99%
9.9
98%
9.8
- The amount of time that has been saved by centralizing recognition, 1:1 and performance reviews has been huge. No more need for going back in drives to find old reviews to move forward.
- The integration with Slack has been great to quickly let others know within the organization whenever someone is recognized.
We looked at ADP Workforce Now and Workday HCM but weren't bought into those platforms and it didn't make sense for us to use those alternatives to Small Improvements.
September 21, 2019
Making check-ins easy
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.
- The organization chart is really well designed, easy to use, and navigate.
- Tracking 1-1 to meetings between employees and their managers.
- Giving praise to fellow employees for tasks well done - Giving a framework to make this easier.
- Being more mobile-first would be great!
- More nudge reminders.
63%
6.3
60%
6.0
- Enabled us to measure the rate of 1-1 meetings across the business and spot potential gaps.
- An easy platform for praise which we can highlight in regular town halls.