Your Focus Brief arrives on a recurring schedule — typically as a message in Slack or Microsoft Teams at the start of your week. It reflects your personal performance trajectory and surfaces what is most important for you to focus on right now, grounded in real data from 15Five and connected work tools.
The brief is private. Your manager does not see it. It is designed to help you be better at your job, not to report on you.
Where to find your brief
- Slack or Microsoft Teams — the brief arrives as a message from 15Five on the configured schedule
- Email — if Slack and Teams are not connected, the brief is delivered via email
- In the platform — select Agents in the left navigation, then Focus Briefs. Every brief ever delivered is here, filterable by date.
What your brief contains
Your week
A read on where you are right now — what you have been working toward based on your focus areas and development goals, and what the most important thing to pay attention to this week is.
The brief connects current work to longer-term growth. It can surface patterns you may not have articulated yourself — like a growth area from your last review that is showing up in how you are working this week.
Concrete suggestion
Each brief includes a specific, actionable suggestion for something to try this week. It is grounded in your actual work and conversations, not generic productivity advice.
Sources
Every insight in the brief traces back to a specific source. Click View Sources to see exactly where information came from — a Slack thread, a check-in, a 1:1 note, an objective update, or another connected tool.
Actions you can take from the brief
From each brief delivery in Slack or Teams:
- Take action — act on individual items: edit, add to a 1:1 agenda, or start a conversation in Slack/Teams
- View sources — verify where each insight came from
- Add context — tell the brief what matters to you right now. The more context you add, the more relevant the next brief becomes.
Make your brief more relevant
- Add My Context regularly — tell the brief about your current priorities, working preferences, and what you are focused on. Context is not a one-time setup — update it as your focus shifts. See Add and manage My Context.
- Keep 15Five activity current — check-ins, objectives, and 1:1 notes are primary data sources for your brief. Consistent use of these features produces better insights.
- Use the feedback loop — after each brief, add context about what was useful and what was off. The brief learns from your input.
If you are not receiving your brief
- Confirm with your admin that you are included in the Focus Brief audience (not excluded).
- Check that Focus Briefs are enabled in your organization.
- Verify that your Slack or Teams account is connected and uses the same email as your 15Five account.
- If there is not enough data from 15Five and connected integrations to generate meaningful insights, a brief will not be sent.
Related articles
- What is the Focus Brief?
- Add and manage My Context
- Read and act on your Focus Brief as a manager
- What are 15Five Agents?