The private manager assessment (PMA) section of manager reviews is a set of questions in which managers answer future-focused questions about their direct reports. By default, PMA answers are only visible to a review cycle participant's direct manager (i.e. the author of the manager review), review administrators, and cycle collaborators. However, review admins and account admins have the ability to manage visibility settings to allow for more transparency.

In this article, you will learn how to...

Access and availability

⛔️ Required access to Best-Self Review® and feature settings.
👥 This article is relevant to Review admins.
📦 This feature is available in the Perform and Total Platform pricing packages.

Help Center article 💡: Manage company review settings
Help Center article 💡: Edit review settings for an active cycle


Make PMA answers visible to hierarchies

Review admins or account admins can elect to make PMA answers visible to the entire manager hierarchy for a review cycle participant, not just their direct manager, review admins, and cycle collaborators. By enabling this setting, everyone in the participant's hierarchy will be able to view the results of the PMA in the 'Team's results' or 'Company's results' section of the review cycle, and all reporting that includes the PMA will be visible to those in the hierarchy. 

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Updates made by following the steps below will only apply to future review cycles. If you've already launched a review cycle and you want to edit PMA visibility, refer to the "Update PMA visibility one-off for an active review cycle" section of this article. 

1. Click on the Settings gear in the upper, right-hand corner of your 15Five account.
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2. Select 'Features' from the drop-down menu.

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3. Click on 'Best-Self Review®'.

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The option to enable visibility into the PMA for the review cycle participant's hierarchy is only possible if hierarchy visibility is selected.

4. Click on 'Visibility setting'

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5. Check the box next to 'Hierarchy' underneath 'Who should see Private Manager Assessment results?'
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Make PMA answers visible to review participants

Review admins or account admins can elect to make PMA answers visible to review cycle participants when their manager shares review results with them.

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Updates made by following the steps below will only apply to future review cycles. If you've already launched a review cycle and you want to edit PMA visibility, refer to the "Update PMA visibility one-off for an active review cycle" section of this article.

  1. Click on the Settings gear in the upper, right-hand corner of your 15Five account.
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  2. Select 'Features' from the drop-down menu.

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  3. Click on 'Best-Self Review®'.

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  4. Click on 'Visibility setting'
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  5. Check the box next to 'Participant' underneath 'Who should see Private Manager Assessment results?'
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Edit PMA visibility for an active review cycle

  1. Click on Best-Self Review® in the left-hand navigation of 15Five.
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  2. You will land on the Best-Self Review® dashboard. From here, locate the review cycle you want to edit settings for under "Active review cycles". Click '...' next to the review cycle, then select 'Edit review cycle' from the dropdown menu
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  3. If you click 'edit' next to additional settings, you will then be able to update PMA visibility for that specific review cycle.
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Review administrators and cycle collaborators will be able to edit this setting until the review cycle end date has passed. If you'd like to make edits to a review cycle that's end date has already passed, please reach out to our Support Team, who can extend the review cycle for you.


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