September 2024 - 15Five Releases

Release date: September 25th, 2024
Feature: HR Outcomes Dashboard
Plan availability: Total Platform

15Five's Best-Self Kickoff is 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.

With this release, leaders can assign managers the task of holding Best-Self Kickoffs with their direct reports using bulk actions or as part of an Action Plan.

Help Center article 💡: Hold a Best-Self Kickoff
Help Center article 💡: Assign actions to managers in bulk
Help Center article 💡: Add actions to an Action Plan

Release date: September 25th, 2024
Feature: HR Outcomes Dashboard | Homepage
Plan availability: Total Platform

With this release, anyone who owns an action within an Action Plan can see a tailored Action Plan detail page, with information relevant to their role in completing the Action Plan. Action owners can access this detail page directly from their homepage by clicking the Action Plan name hyperlink.

Help Center article 💡: Launch an Action Plan
Help Center article 💡: Homepage for managers
Help Center article 💡: Homepage for employees

Release date: September 5th, 2024
Feature: Transform training & coaching
Plan availability: 1:1 coaching is available as an add-on in any pricing plan

Back in June, we released the ability for HR Leaders to assign 1:1 coaching as a strategic action within an Action Plan. Since then, we've been working behind the scenes to make the experience of assigning, scheduling, and attending coaching sessions seamless.

Today we released the following updates:

• The ability for admins to select a focus area when assigning coaching: The focus area for a coaching session is the primary topic/theme the coaching session will focus on developing or improving. With this release, admins can select a session focus area when assigning coaching to employees.

• Elevated scheduling experience: Managers scheduling coaching sessions have access to a scheduling flow that allows them to select a focus area (if not already assigned), select a 15Five coach, set the date and time of the session, and add a team impact goal to target desired coaching outcomes.

• Coaching session talking points and action items: Coaching participants and their selected coach have access to a coaching session page to help them plan and record insights from the coaching session. With this release, we've added sections to this page that coaching participants can use to add talking points and action items, linking coaching to outcomes to ongoing development actions.

• Coaching notifications: Managers now receive email notifications for scheduling, booking confirmation, session reminders, and post-session recaps, ensuring they stay informed and engaged.

Help Center article 💡: Assign a 1:1 coaching session
Help Center article 💡: Schedule an assigned 1:1 coaching session
Help Center article 💡: Add details for my 1:1 coaching session
Help Center article 💡: Complete my coaching profile

Release date: September 5th, 2024
Feature: HR Outcomes Dashboard
Plan availability: Engage, Legacy Perform, and Total Platform

An Action Plan's target group is the group of people that the plan is intended to impact. Defining a target group helps in setting clear, measurable goals and outcomes. It allows HR leaders to track the progress and effectiveness of the action plan specifically within that group, making it easier to assess whether the plan is achieving its intended results and make adjustments as needed.

As you select a target group, you may realize that you don't want to everyone who meets the selected criteria. For example— let's say you want to create an Action Plan with a goal to drive the performance of people in Jane's hierarchy. You select Jane's hierarchy as the target group, but don't want to include the top performers on Jane's team since the Action Plan won't be relevant to them.

Previously, there was no way to exclude individuals from a target group. Now, you can refine the target group to exclude those for whom the Action Plan is not relevant, ensuring it is more targeted and effective.

Help Center article 💡: Create an Action Plan

Release date: September 5th, 2024
Feature: HR Outcomes Dashboard
Plan availability: Engage, Legacy Perform, and Total Platform

Previously, actions in Action Plans could only be assigned to managers, as we know that managers are highly influential and improve outcomes on their teams. However, we also recognize that flexibility is key in achieving success— so we've released the ability to assign actions within in an Action Plan to anyone.

Help Center article 💡: Add actions to an Action Plan

Release date: September 5th, 2024
Feature: Engagement
Plan availability: Engage, Legacy Perform, and Total Platform

Engagement Admins can now resend an engagement survey to an individual employee, providing greater flexibility in managing survey participation. Previously, resending a survey to one person required sending it to all participants. This update streamlines the process and avoids unnecessary emails to those who have already completed their surveys.

Help Center article 💡: Resend an engagement survey invitation