15Five is a performance management solution that delivers higher performance, retention, and engagement through managers. In this article, we'll walk through why 15Five exists and the value, features, and services we offer.
In this article, you will learn...
- What is 15Five?
- Features included in the 15Five platform
- Manager training and coaching through 15Five Transform
What is 15Five?
15Five is HR’s strategic command center where employee performance, retention, and engagement isn’t just measured— it’s maximized. With continuous performance reviews, powerful engagement surveys, robust HRIS integrations, out-of-the-box people analytics, strategic action planning and tracking, and dynamic manager enablement, powered by 15Five AI, 15Five supports you and your team across the strategic HR journey.
Our mission and purpose
15Five's mission is to help HR leaders drive results through human-centered leadership and management. Our purpose is to accelerate human-centered leadership in the world so that companies and their people can thrive.
Our approach: The HR Outcomes Flywheel
15Five's HR Outcomes Flywheel connects all the things HR does in a continuous, accelerating flywheel to improve the outcomes that matter most to your company: maximizing employee performance, increasing employee engagement, and decreasing regrettable turnover. The HR Outcomes Flywheel approach enables HR leaders — in partnership with managers — to act on measured outcomes at scale and in a way that demonstrably impacts the business. Using your own performance, engagement, and people data, 15Five prescribes actions that are proven to achieve outcomes and quantify results, closing the measurement to action loop to drive positive outcomes for your people and your business.
The HR Outcomes Flywheel is made up of the following aspects:
In the Diagnose phase, you'll use 15Five to create a shared understanding of what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus. 15Five’s HR Outcomes Dashboard converts your existing people data into executive-level insights. Discover what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus. Explore how HR outcomes vary across specific employee segments, so you can take the right action in the right places.
Help Center article 💡: Diagnose using the HR Outcomes Dashboard
In the Plan phase, you'll implement strategic action plans that are clear, accountable, and trackable. Create strategic Action Plans based on AI-generated insights to drive outcomes performance across your organization.
Help Center article 💡: Action Plans: Tool Overview
Help Center article 💡: Create an Action Plan
In the Act phase, you'll scale your strategy by activating and enabling your people managers. Partner with managers by assigning them actions that will help them drive outcomes within their teams.
Help Center article 💡: Add actions to an Action Plan
15Five AI is the connective tissue that helps HR Leaders and Managers navigate the HR Outcomes Flywheel even faster, at scale.
Help Center article 💡: 15Five AI Overview: How AI is used across 15Five
Features that drive outcomes
Every part of the 15Five platform works cohesively to drive better performance, engagement, and retention for your organization. We offer the following features, depending on which pricing plan your organization is on:
15Five's 1-on-1s feature facilitates structured meetings that prioritize alignment and engagement by guiding discussions on priorities, challenges, and progress.
Help Center article 💡: 1-on-1s Feature Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: 1-on-1s
In-app link 💻: 1-on-1s
Availability
📦 1-on-1s are available in the Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five's Best-Self Review® facilitates a guided performance review process that focuses on performance, goals, and feedback to nurture professional growth.
Help Center article 💡: Best-Self Review® Feature Overview
In-app link 💻: Best-Self Review® Dashboard
Availability
📦 Best-Self Review® is available in the Perform and Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five's Career Hub is a simple, powerful way for managers and their team members to co-create a strengths-driven career vision that keeps employees motivated and energized.
Help Center article 💡: Career Hub: Feature Overview
In-app link 💻: My Career Hub
Availability
📦 Career Hub is available in the Perform and Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five Check-ins replace status reports with quick employee feedback through a few questions, taking 15 minutes to fill and 5 minutes for managers to review.
Help Center article 💡: Check-ins Feature Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: Check-ins
In-app link 💻: My Check-ins
Availability
📦 Check-ins are available in the Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five's Engagement feature enables organizations to create anonymous employee surveys to measure, evaluate, and enhance employee engagement.
Help Center article 💡: Engagement Feature Overview
Availability
📦 Engagement is available in the Engage, Legacy Perform, and Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five's Feedback feature allows employees to provide ad-hoc feedback to foster open communication, collaboration, and growth.
Help Center article 💡: Feedback Feature Overview
In-app link 💻: Feedback Dashboard
Availability
📦 Feedback is available in the Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform pricing packages.
High Fives in 15Five enable employees to recognize each other's achievements and contributions through a simple and positive feedback system.
Help Center article 💡: High Fives Feature Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: High Fives
In-app link 💻: High Fives Dashboard
Availability
📦 High Fives are available in the Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform pricing packages.
Your homepage in 15Five is your one-stop destination for a people-centric and action-oriented approach to managing your team and driving business outcomes. It serves as a single place for the actions you need to take to be an effective manager or employee by listing all your priorities, providing real-time insights into how your team is doing, and providing a space for facilitating asynchronous discussions with your team.
Profiles allow you to add your strengths, preferred working and feedback styles, and more so that your team knows how to best work with you (and you, them!). Within your profile, you can access 15Five's Best-Self Kickoff: a strategic meeting that aims to help employees and managers understand each other and their work needs, building a stronger working relationship. The questions discussed in the Best-Self Kickoff are science-backed and help create psychological safety in employees, as well as increase manager effectiveness: the biggest driver of employee performance, engagement, and retention.
Help Center article 💡: Homepage for managers
Help Center article 💡: Homepage for employees
Help Center article 💡: My Profile: Feature Overview
Help Center article 💡: Hold a Best-Self Kickoff
In-app link 💻: My Homepage
In-app link 💻: My Profile
Availability
📦 The Homepage and Profile are available in all pricing packages.
15Five’s HR Outcomes Dashboard and Manager Effectiveness Indicator (MEI) provide a reliable way for HR executives to consistently capture, synthesize, and present the outcomes they are measuring and working to improve: manager effectiveness, employee engagement, employee performance, and regrettable turnover. This allows HR leaders to show clear and concise data that directly links programs like employee learning and development to outcomes like employee retention, which can, in turn, be connected to business outcomes like customer satisfaction and revenue.
Help Center article 💡: HR Outcomes Dashboard Feature Overview
Help Center article 💡: Manager Effectiveness Indicator Feature Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: HR Outcomes Dashboard
eBook 📖: HR Outcomes Playbook: Unlocking the True Business Value of HR
In-app link 💻: HR Outcomes Dashboard
In-app link 💻: Manager Effectiveness Indicator (MEI)
Availability
📦 The HR Outcomes Dashboard and Manager Effectiveness Indicator are available in the Total Platform pricing packages.
15Five's Objectives feature provides a framework for setting, tracking, and aligning goals, enhancing clarity and focus towards achieving desired outcomes.
Help Center article 💡: Objectives Feature Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: Objectives
In-app link 💻: Objectives Dashboard
Availability
📦 Objectives are available in the Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform pricing packages.
Transform Training & Coaching
The manager-employee relationship influences nearly every aspect of the work experience and has a significant impact on engagement, performance, and retention. With that in mind, we created Transform to help you transform managers— your most critical resources— into catalysts for change so you can unlock their full power at scale.
15Five's Transform is live and on-demand training and coaching for the modern manager— designed to build effective managers, highly engaged employees, and top-performing organizations. Each course and concept is backed by evidence to help your leaders and teams thrive and perform at the same time.
Effective management is far more than what somebody does — it's about how they do it. Transform brings leadership development for managers into their workflow, helping scale effective management practices across an organization. Within the HR Outcomes Flywheel, leaders receive suggestions for courses based on organization data so relevant manager development is served up contextually and based on the needs of the moment as recommendations for areas of growth.
The following offerings are available through Transform:
Transform Microlearning is a powerful tool designed to enhance manager effectiveness within the flow of work with bite-sized learning and continuous development. Microlearnings are video courses with interactive content that follow the Transform Learning Model, which is built on the fundamentals of adult learning.
Course participants will learn best practices and share knowledge, practice the new skills and behaviors in a supportive learning environment, and get the resources they need to go out and apply these skills day-to-day in the flow of their work.
Use the resources below to learn more:
- Help Center article 💡: Transform Microlearning: Tool Overview
- Help Center article 💡: Assign Microlearning courses to managers
- Help Center article 💡: Learn with Transform Microlearning
- Help Center article 💡: On-demand Microlearning course library
Availability
📦 Microlearning is available in the Total Platform pricing package.
On-demand training is manager courses from our curated on-demand course library. This library contains courses created by 15Five's in-house coaching experts and Luminary content— course content created by thought leaders who defined their categories.
There are two options for registering for courses:
- Managers can register for on-demand courses one-off.
- Admins can assign courses to managers using learning journeys. A learning journey is exactly what it sounds like— a journey of learning that a person or people go through. Journeys are made up of tracks— collections of courses from our on-demand course library. We offer recommended tracks and the ability for admins to create custom tracks.
Use the resources below to learn more:
- Academy Course 🎓: Transform for Admins
- Help Center article 💡: Grant an individual access to Transform
- Help Center article 💡: On-demand Transform course library
- Help Center article 💡: Create and manage learning journeys
- Help Center article 💡: Recommended Learning Tracks in Transform
- Help Center article 💡: Create and manage custom tracks
- Help Center article 💡: Access on-demand Transform training courses
Availability
📦 On-demand training is available in the Copilot & Content and Group Coaching, Copilot, & Content pricing packages.
Group coaching is private, 60-minute group coaching sessions with one of 15Five’s certified in-house coaches, delivered to cohorts of up to 10 managers. Each session is focused on helping the group process their experiences, share learnings, identify opportunities, and create collective accountability for growth and development. These sessions are assigned to managers using Actions.
Use the resources below to learn more:
- Academy Course 🎓: Transform for Admins
- Help Center article 💡: Meet our coaches
- Help Center article 💡: Assign a group coaching session using Action Plans
Availability
📦 Live group coaching is available in the Group Coaching, Copilot, & Content pricing package.
1:1 coaching is a partnership between a manager and one of 15Five’s certified coaches, focused on the manager's individual goals. These sessions are assigned to managers using Actions.
This form of coaching is great for leaders of all levels who would benefit from bridging the disconnect between what they know and what they apply in the flow of work. Each session is a collaborative conversation focused on helping the individual gain the tools they need to achieve their goals. Their coach will use strategic coaching tools— inquiry, self-reflection, role play, skill development, etc.— to support them through the process of increasing self-awareness, practicing new skills or mindsets, and taking in feedback.
Use the resources below to learn more:
- Academy Course 🎓: Transform for Admins
- Help Center article 💡: Meet our coaches
- Help Center article 💡: Assign a 1:1 coaching session
- Help Center article 💡: Schedule an assigned 1:1 coaching session
Availability
📦 1:1 coaching is available as an add-on to any pricing plan. Please reach out to your 15Five Account Executive.
Help Center article 💡: Transform Coaching & Training Overview
Feature spotlight 📄: Transform