Best-Self Review® Feature Product Releases

Release date: August 27th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform

Previously, identifying which participants were included in calibration sessions required cumbersome manual work. Now, admins can quickly see all the calibration sessions an employee was part of, streamlining the process and improving report usability. Simply download the Full progress report and refer to the "Calibration Session Status" column for a participant to see all calibration sessions they're included in.

Help Center article 💡: Available downloads in Best-Self Review®

Release date: August 26th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform

15Five's new external performance data import allows you to import review cycle data from sources outside of 15Five. This new capability enables you to:

• Keep track of all performance data in one, easy-accessible location,
• View trending review data across all performance review cycles, and
• Easily populate the Performance tile of the HR Outcomes Dashboard using historical data— so you can immediately access insights and recommendations to improve performance across your organization.

Help Center article 💡: Import external performance data
Help Center article 💡: Configure the HR Outcomes Dashboard

Release date: July 9th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

We’ve introduced enhancements that make it easier for participants to acknowledge reviews. Participants will now be assigned an action item and receive an in-app and email notification with links to acknowledge their review results. If a review cycle participant still hasn’t acknowledged their results 48 hours after their results are finalized, they'll also receive a nudge email reminding them to do so.

We also added a new sortable column to the Participants list on the review cycle's Overview tab that allows review admins to see whether or not a participant has acknowledged their results.

Help Center article 💡: Acknowledge my review results
Help Center article 💡: Interact with a review cycle's Overview tab

Release date: July 9th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

With this release, you can click any answer cell in a calibration session to open a drawer containing the text response provided by the participant's manager(s). You can also view all manager responses given about a participant by clicking the participant’s name and navigating to the "Responses" tab.

Help Center article 💡: Hold a calibration session

Release date: July 9th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

This release allows you to see a user's assigned custom attributes in the "General details" tab of the Participant Details drawer. Any custom user attributes your organization has created are eligible to be included, including those sourced from your HRIS.

Calibrating often requires employee data like current employee level, last promotion date, et cetera— most of which comes from your integrated HRIS. If your organization has set those attributes to map from your HRIS to 15Five as custom attributes, they can now be displayed during a calibration session.

Help Center article 💡: Hold a calibration session

Release date: June 6th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

In the past, the Talent Matrix reporting tool in Best-Self Review® only allowed you to analyze answers given to questions in the Private Manager Assessment section of review cycle. With this release, we've expanded the Talent Matrix to all sections of reviews: Company Values, Competencies, Objectives, Manager Effectiveness, & Growth and Development. Adding these review sections to the Talent Matrix gives leaders the flexibility to incorporate multiple quantitative dimensions of employee reviews into their strategic decisions.

Help Center article 💡: Analyze company review results using the Talent Matrix

Release date: May 1st, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

As Review admins create a review cycle, they'll now see the option to schedule it to repeat on an annual cadence. Repeated reviews will not launch automatically— an email will be sent to Review admins a week before the cycle's start date asking them to confirm the cycle.

Help Center article 💡: Create a review cycle

Release date: March 8th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

Admins in a calibration session can now download a CSV or XLSX file containing calibration session data. This download can serve as a helpful record of what changes were made in a calibration session.

Help Center article 💡: Download calibration session data

Release date: January 31st, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Total Platform

15Five's AI Assisted Reviews tool is a review-writing assistant, powered by Spark AI, that helps Managers and Additional managers write performance reviews for their direct reports. This tool uses data from across the 15Five platform to provide managers with AI-powered starting points for writing reviews— making review season easier, faster, and more fair for everyone.

This tool helps managers with the following aspects of writing manager reviews:

• Summarizing Performance Data: Spark AI thoroughly examines an employee's data for the review period, including reviews submitted about them in the current review cycle and insights from 15Five features. Using this data, it generates a summary highlighting the employee's strengths and opportunities, which managers can use to guide them as they complete their manager review.
• Drafting review answers: Using relevant data, Spark AI creates a well-rounded first draft for review questions. These AI-generated drafts provide a valuable starting point for writing performance reviews, significantly reducing the time and effort needed to draft these documents from scratch and giving managers more time to create thoughtful, constructive, and fair performance evaluations.
• Improving writing: Spark AI assists in refining and rewording the drafted content, providing managers with a seamless and efficient way to enhance their performance reviews.

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Help Center article 💡: AI Assisted Reviews: Overview
Help Center article 💡: Use Spark AI to draft my manager review
Help Center article 💡: Configure Spark AI feature settings

Release date: January 24th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

For this release, we added a button to users' account settings pages that allows HR admins to download cycle-specific results reports for all review cycles a person has participated in. This makes it easier to document how a person was rated in review cycles.

Help Center article 💡: Download a person's Best-Self Review® results history

Release date: January 24th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

The new Best-Self Review® audit log gives Review admins and Cycle collaborators visibility into security events that occur in a review cycle (including adding/removing participants and admins). In the log, you can see the security event, who performed the event, and the date and time it was performed.

Help Center article 💡: Available downloads in Best-Self Review®

Release date: January 23rd, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

When a review writer starts writing their review but doesn't submit it, it is considered "in draft." Up until now, leaders couldn't see whether or not a review writer had started drafting a review of a cycle participant. With this release, Review admins and Cycle collaborators can see if a review is in draft by downloading the cycle's "Participants progress tracker" or "Review writers progress tracker" reports.

Help Center article 💡: Available downloads in Best-Self Review®

Release date: January 17th, 2024
Feature: Best-Self Review®
Plan availability: Perform and Total Platform

When enabled, the "Review Acknowledgement" setting in Best-Self Review® feature settings allows participants to sign off on their review results following a final meeting with their manager. With this release, employees have the option to provide a text comment when they acknowledge their results.

Help Center article 💡: Acknowledge my review results