15Five's Performance Ratings+ tool allows you to automate numerical scores for review cycle participants based on a custom formula that combines aggregate scores from self and/or manager review answers. In this article, we'll walk through how to manage settings for Performance Ratings+.
In this article, you will learn...
- How to enable or disable Performance Ratings+
- How to manage who can see performance ratings
- How to include additional manager reviews in the calculation of performance ratings
Access and availability
⛔️ Required access to Best-Self Review®.
👥 This article is relevant to Review Admins.
📦 This feature is available in the Perform and Total Platform pricing packages.
Enable/Disable Performance Ratings+
By default, Performance Ratings+ is turned off in your Best-Self Review® feature settings. If you turn the Performance Ratings+ feature on, that means Review admins will see the option to include performance ratings during cycle creation.
- Click on the Settings gear in the top, right-hand corner of 15Five.
- Select ‘Features’ from the dropdown menu.
- Scroll down to the Best-Self Review® section and click to open.
- Find the "Performance Ratings+" section and click the arrow to expand feature options.
- Click the box next to ‘Enable performance ratings’.
- When Performance Ratings+ is enabled, Review admins will see the option to include or exclude performance ratings during cycle creation.
Manage who can see performance ratings
Review admins, Cycle collaborators, and a person’s direct manager, additional managers, and review viewers always have visibility into a review cycle participant’s performance rating. You can decide whether you want participants and/or their manager hierarchies to be able to see performance ratings.
You can dictate whether or not review cycle participants will be able to see their own performance rating in the "Performance Ratings+" section of Best-Self Review® feature settings.
- Click on the Settings gear in the top, right-hand corner of 15Five.
- Select ‘Features’ from the dropdown menu.
- Scroll down to the Best-Self Review® section and click to open.
- Find the "Performance Ratings+" section and click the arrow to expand feature options.
- Use the "Who can see performance rating?" section to dictate whether or not participants will be able to see their own performance rating.
- Selecting Performance rating is visible to review participants means that review cycle participants will be able to see their performance rating when review results are shared with them by either their manager or a cycle collaborator.
- Selecting Performance rating is hidden from review participants means that review cycle participants will not be able to see their performance rating anywhere in 15Five.
Note
If a person is a Review admin/Cycle collaborator and a review cycle participant, and the "Performance rating is hidden from review participants" setting is selected, that person will not be able to see their own performance rating.
- When you're done, click Save.
- The option you select here will be the default for all future review cycles, but during cycle creation, you will still see the option to select a different visibility option.
A person’s hierarchy (i.e. their manager’s manager, their manager’s manager’s manager, and so on) will only be able to see a review cycle participant’s performance rating if hierarchy visibility is enabled in the review cycle. Follow the steps below to enable hierarchy visibility.
- Click on the Settings gear in the top, right-hand corner of 15Five.
- Select ‘Features’ from the dropdown menu.
- Scroll down to the Best-Self Review® section and click to open.
- Find the "Visibility settings" section and click the arrow to expand feature options.
- Select the "Hierarchy visibility" option. This option expands visibility for all review results (not only performance ratings) to participants' hierarchies.
- When you're done, click Save.
- The option you select here will be the default for all future review cycles, but during cycle creation, you will still see the option to select a different visibility option.
Tip
Check out our "Roles in a Best-Self Review® cycle" article for more information about roles and associated permissions.
Include additional manager reviews in ratings calculation
Additional managers are people besides a review cycle participant's direct manager who can write a manager review about them. By default, additional manager reviews are not included in the calculation of performance ratings. However, you have the option to include them.
Note
The weight of all manager reviews is equal— meaning that, if this setting is enabled and a participant has one direct manager review and two additional manager reviews, each one’s weight for manager reviews would be ⅓.
- Click on the Settings gear in the top, right-hand corner of 15Five.
- Select ‘Features’ from the dropdown menu.
- Scroll down to the Best-Self Review® section and click to open.
- Find the "Performance Ratings+" section and click the arrow to expand feature options.
- Check the box next to "Include additional manager reviews in rating calculation."
- When you're done, click Save.
- The option you select here will be the default for all future review cycles, but during cycle creation, you will still see the option to include or exclude additional manager reviews in the calculation of performance ratings.