15Five is a performance management platform. This article describes each feature available to employees and links to atomic how-to articles for task execution.
> Note: The features available to you depend on the pricing plan your organization purchased and the settings configured by your account admins. Contact an account admin if you have questions about feature availability.
> Note: Your organization may have renamed this feature. If you don't see "Best-Self Review®" or "Objectives" in your navigation, check with your admin for the name used in your account.
Feature Structure
15Five includes the following features for employees:
- 1-on-1s — structured meeting agendas shared with your manager or peers
- Best-Self Review® — performance reviews including self, manager, peer, and upward review types
- Career Hub — career reflection and goal-setting tools
- Check-ins — recurring reflective updates submitted to your manager
- Engagement — anonymous surveys measuring employee engagement
- Feedback — on-demand feedback requests and sharing
- High Fives — peer recognition
- Objectives — goal-setting and tracking using the OKR framework
1-on-1s
1-on-1s provides shared meeting agendas for structured conversations with your manager or peers about priorities, challenges, and progress.
- Add talking points and action items from the 1-on-1 page or your Home page.
- Schedule recurring meetings and take shared notes during sessions.
- Carry unresolved talking points forward to the next meeting automatically.
What You Can Do
- 1-on-1s — Feature Overview
- Add a talking point to your 1-on-1 agenda
- Hold a 1-on-1 meeting
- Schedule a 1-on-1 meeting (without Google Calendar)
Best-Self Review®
Best-Self Review® is a performance review tool. It collects self, manager, peer, and upward reviews to produce a full picture of performance.
- Complete assigned reviews during an active review cycle.
- View shared results and discuss them with your manager.
- Acknowledge results to confirm you have reviewed your feedback.
What You Can Do
- Performance Reviews (Best-Self Review®) — Feature Overview
- Submit your self review in a performance review cycle
- Complete a peer review
- Complete an upward review of your manager
- Understand your role as a participant in a performance review cycle
Career Hub
Career Hub is a structured space for reflecting on your career ambitions and working with your manager to set development goals.
Career Hub includes four sections:
- Role Clarity — clarify your current role and identify energizing work
- Strengths — identify your top strengths, values, and interests
- Career Vision — align your strengths and passions with a future career direction
- Growth Plan — create career goals and break them into trackable actions
What You Can Do
- Career Hub — Feature Overview
- Fill out your Career Hub (Employee)
- Complete the Role Clarity tab in Career Hub
- Complete the Strengths tab in Career Hub
- Complete the Career Vision tab in Career Hub
- Create a career goal in Career Hub
Check-ins
Check-ins replace status reports with brief recurring updates. Employees fill out a Check-in each period; managers review and respond.
- Share how work is going, update objectives, and flag challenges.
- Your manager reviews your answers and carries discussion points into 1-on-1s.
- Check-in history is available as supporting context during performance reviews.
What You Can Do
- Check-ins — Feature Overview
- Fill Out and Submit a Check-in
- Who can see my Check-ins?
- Add a Check-in item to a 1-on-1 agenda
Engagement
Engagement surveys are anonymous surveys used to measure and report on employee engagement across your organization.
- You receive an email or in-app prompt when a survey is open.
- Responses are anonymous and contribute to aggregate engagement scores.
- Results are used by HR and managers to identify areas for action.
What You Can Do
Feedback
Feedback lets you request or give feedback at any time, outside of formal review cycles.
- Request feedback from a colleague or respond to a request directed to you.
- Choose whether to share feedback privately or with a manager.
- Reference feedback in 1-on-1s or during performance reviews.
What You Can Do
- Feedback — Feature Overview
- Request feedback from a colleague
- Respond to a feedback request in 15Five
- View received feedback
High Fives
High Fives are peer recognition messages sent to teammates to acknowledge great work or demonstration of company values.
- Send a High Five from your Check-in or the High Fives feed.
- Recipients are notified and can react or comment.
- High Fives can include company value hashtags if your admin has enabled them.
What You Can Do
- High Fives — Feature Overview
- Give a High Five from the High Fives Feed
- View and filter the High Fives feed
Objectives
Objectives provides a framework for setting, tracking, and aligning goals using the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) methodology.
- Objectives describe what you want to accomplish — qualitative and time-bound.
- Key Results describe how you will measure progress — concrete and specific.
- Update key result progress from the Objectives tab or directly in a Check-in.
- Close and reflect on objectives at the end of each cycle, then begin the next.
What You Can Do
- Objectives — Feature Overview
- Create an Objective in 15Five
- Update a key result from the Objectives dashboard
- Close an objective
- Understand Objectives and OKRs in 15Five
Key Rules
- Features visible in your account depend on your organization's pricing plan and admin configuration.
- Best-Self Review® and Objectives can be renamed by your admin — the feature names in your account may differ from this article.
- Engagement survey responses are always anonymous — individual responses are never visible to managers or admins.
Related Articles
- Complete your employee onboarding checklist in 15Five
- Access 15Five for the first time
- Fill out your profile in 15Five
- Manage your notification preferences
- Understand how employees communicate with managers in 15Five
- Best-Self Review® FAQs — overview and index
- Career Hub for employees — Feature Overview