This guide walks you through the key tasks to get started as an employee in 15Five. Each section covers a core feature area you'll use to track your work, grow your career, and stay connected with your manager and team. Start with the areas most relevant to your immediate needs, then explore the rest as you settle in.
Check-ins
Check-ins are your primary weekly touchpoint with your manager — use them to report on priorities, share how you're doing, and flag anything that needs attention. Submitting consistently helps your manager support you and keeps your work visible.
- Check-ins — Feature Overview
- How to view your Check-in visibility settings
- Priorities in Check-ins — when to use them and how
- Submit a past-due Check-in
- Pass up a Check-in answer to your manager
Performance Reviews
When your company runs a review cycle, you'll be asked to complete a self-review, nominate peers, and review colleagues. Understanding your role before the cycle opens will help you complete each step accurately and on time.
- Understand your role as a participant in a performance review cycle
- Submit your self review in a performance review cycle
- Nominate peers for your performance review
- Complete a peer review
- Acknowledge your performance review results
High Fives
High Fives are how you recognize colleagues for good work inside 15Five. Giving recognition regularly — and tagging company values when relevant — helps build a visible culture of appreciation across your team.
- High Fives — Feature Overview
- Give a High Five using Slack
- Include a company value hashtag in a High Five
- View and filter the High Fives feed
Objectives / OKRs
Objectives help you define what you're working toward and connect your individual goals to broader team or company priorities. You can track progress directly in your Check-ins so your goals stay active, not just documented.
- Understand Objectives and OKRs in 15Five
- Create an objective
- How to track objective progress in a Check-in
- Align an objective with a parent objective
- Write an Effective Objective and Key Results
Engagement Surveys
When your company sends an engagement survey, your responses help leadership understand what's working and what needs to change. Surveys are confidential, and completing them is the most direct way to make your voice heard.
Feedback
15Five lets you request feedback from colleagues, respond to feedback requests, and proactively share observations with others. Using feedback regularly — not just during reviews — gives you a clearer picture of how your work lands.
- Request feedback from a colleague
- Respond to a feedback request in 15Five
- Share feedback with a colleague
- View received feedback
1-on-1s
1-on-1s give you a structured space to connect with your manager on a regular cadence. Building and maintaining a shared agenda ensures your meetings stay focused and that important topics don't get dropped between sessions.
- 1-on-1s — Feature Overview
- Create a new 1-on-1 agenda
- Schedule a 1-on-1 meeting with Google Calendar
- Add a talking point to a 1-on-1 agenda
- Hold a 1-on-1 meeting
Career Hub
Career Hub is where you document your responsibilities, set career goals, and explore growth paths within your organization. Keeping it up to date gives your manager better context for coaching conversations and development planning.
- Career Hub for employees — Feature Overview
- Fill out your Career Hub (Employee)
- Manage your own job responsibilities and projects and tasks in Career Hub (Employee)
- Create a career goal in Career Hub
- Competencies and career paths in Career Hub — Feature Overview
What's next
Once you've covered the basics, explore each domain section in full for deeper guidance on getting the most out of every feature. If your company has enabled specific tools or workflows, your manager or HR team can point you to what's most relevant in your context.