TrustRadius Insights for Weekdone are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
Weekdone has proven to be a valuable tool in improving employee satisfaction and connectedness by aligning teams with common goals and recognition. Users have found that the software helps in better organizing team activities and tasks by focusing on weekly and long-term goals. With its comprehensive coverage of everything related to OKRs, Weekdone gives team members a sense of connectedness and purpose. The platform has made task planning more efficient and has significantly improved performance. Users can easily send tasks and project updates for review and completion, solving the challenge of tracking tasks and staying on top of responsibilities. Weekdone provides real-time insights into team progress and achievements, enabling informed decision-making. The intuitive UI and functionality of Weekdone have been praised for improving team productivity. It serves as an alternative to other productivity trackers and is easy to understand and adapt to. Weekdone enhances collaboration across teams and provides access to the OKR hierarchy, making it impactful for team building and boosting employee morale. The software facilitates the implementation of OKRs by providing a clear and efficient method to track objectives and key results, helping teams stay focused and aligned around annual strategies and quarterly goals. Additionally, Weekdone allows for quick snapshots of the team's active projects and the ability to set up recurring reports, further streamlining communication within teams. Overall, Weekdone has proven to be a versatile tool that helps organizations set goals, track progress, enhance collaboration, improve performance, and foster employee satisfaction.
Our organization uses Weekdone on a daily basis as a way to track quarterly objectives and key ratios. Each department head creates a road map and uploads their objectives into Weekdone for the team. From here we can easily track progress for our teams and teams that we work with regularly.
Pros
Creating plans, tracking progress, and logging potential problems on one page is very nice.
The company dashboard allows colleagues to stay up to date on quarterly progress.
Cons
I don't know that the weekly job satisfaction rating is necessarily helpful. Since this score is shown to our entire network at the end of each week, I'm unsure how truthful employees actually are in that aspect.
Likelihood to Recommend
Weekdone is an incredible tool for helping teams see what their future plans are and the progress that has been made to get accomplish those plans. We use the platform for a way to track things we're working on during the quarter by breaking them down into weekly tasks. It is helpful that we can link each task to our quarterly objectives and set a due date. We can also tag colleagues in our plans and add comments and/or attachments for easy sharing throughout the organization.
My globally distributed marketing department has about fifteen different teams in it. These cover everything from social, pr, web development, events, seo, brand, media/advertising, campaign planners, content writers, and creative services. Every Friday, we collectively built a recurring status report called the <b>Marketing Reel </b>with a shared word doc where we each write in our weekly accomplishments so that company leadership can understand what we did that week. It was a simple enough request but, as you probably expect, there were lots of issues with this approach:
<ul><li>Each team report had no logical connection to the efforts of other teams. They just dumped everything they did into their section.</li><li>As time went on, it became a competition to see which team added the most content. For example, "PR has 4 pages of accomplishments this week, why does Social only have half a page?" </li><li>It was completely untethered from the context of the previous week. Some teams reported the same recurring responsibility every week just to have <i>something</i> in the Reel.</li><li>There was no acknowledgment of the work that was <i>planned to be done </i>for that week. </li><li>The accomplishments reported had no logical connection to personal goals, team/department/organizational goals, or quarterly/annual goals. </li><li>Most of all, it was a <i>pain in the rear </i>to do. Everyone stopped what they were doing Friday morning and spent an hour going to their project management systems to summarize what was most important.</li></ul>Weekdone was brought in to solve those problems.
Pros
It connects daily work to personal, team, department and organizational long-term goals.
Provides leadership with visibility into the output of individuals, teams, and departments.
Improves employee engagement with a modern approach to 360-degree staff/manager feedback, complete with emoji.
Connects status reporting with existing systems of record (Basecamp, Asana, Trello, Teamwork, etc) to avoid redundant data entry.
Brings the OKR discipline to an organization who needs a structure for their prioritization planning.
The mobile app makes entry effortless. I could give weekly feedback to direct reports as I was walking between meetings on my phone.
Cons
User setup and management and team/department creation is not a trivial effort. Requires some deliberate planning.
The deadlines for plans don't connect to the due dates for tasks in systems of record. That can get confusing when Asana says a task is due next week but Weekdone still has a due date of tomorrow.
I'd love to see more contextual support for sections like employee feedback. Maybe a sentence or two suggesting feedback based on the report's weekly entry. If a person had three Problems and only one Progress, Weekdone could suggest some corrective action to make it easier for the management to mitigate problems before they get ugly.
Likelihood to Recommend
If the company...
<ul><li>Wants to replace a painful status reporting process.</li><li>Has stated company, department, and team SMART goals.
</li><li>Wants to connect daily work to long term individual/team/department/organization goals.</li><li>Is concerned about company culture and employee satisfaction.</li><li>Wants to facilitate better communication and alignment without adding more meetings.</li><li>Believes in the OKR method for planning and prioritizing work items to be done.</li><li>Is digital.</li></ul>
