15Five Continuous Performance Management Reviews & Product Details

15Five opens up communication between all employees and if properly used, can result in a well-balanced dynamic between administration and employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I truly don't have a single problem with 15Five. It's a powerful tool with a highly adept platform. It's something that I boast to my colleagues in other industries quite frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

15Five is a great tool to track personal and team performance. The user experience makes leaving a self review easy and seamless, walking you through a few easy steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When giving a High Five to multiple people it defaults to public viewing. Sometimes you want to give recognition to a few team members, but still keep it private only to the recipients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that 15Five offers free webinars on a monthly basis to help admins and user alike get acquainted with their product. Makes my life easier as we get into review season that i can share their review webinar with my employees instead of hosting my own orientation.

My company is highly engaged with their "high five" feature where one can give public praise and tag another person to let them know they are appreciated. We use the slack integrations too, so all company can view praise as it comes in.

Our weekly check ins via their platform give us an idea of how our employees are feeling overall and help us know where to zoom in and pay attention or take action. Easy to use, intuitive, user friendly, quick to fill out, and gives us much needed engagement data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best Self performance review function - One issue we had was around not understanding that comments made in a review were to be visible with everyone after review was finalized. Not a big issue to fix visibility but was not clear up front. They make updates regularly to fix these kinds of things too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to track products across teams to provide incremental improvements and changes over time. It is a great tool to update managers of your individual progress. It keeps you accountable throughout the week to make sure you are on track with your own goals and the goals of the company. I think it is also a great tool for making an organization more flat and feeling like an individual has a say in the progress and success of a company. In our company, feedback is made available to higher ups, and can even be pushed up the ranks to the highest levels, so that everyone in the organization can be heard and feel like they are making a difference. I also like that you can track wider goals within 15Five. Year long progress is sometimes difficult to keep track of. But with 15Five, it makes these goals attainable, trackable and reachable. The manager and employee are able to track the progress of these long term goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't too much I dislike about 15Five. I think that some of the questions are a little ridged and would like a little more flexibility. I think there might be a better way to track 1:1 meetings between an employee and a manager.Maybe make specific goals. Create templates for these meetups as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use UI - Fantastic data insights. Love that you can shoot someone a high five as a way to tell them that you appreciate something that they've done throughout the week. It's a great way to give recognition to those fellow colleagues/managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I truly have found nothing to date! Everything seems to work together seamlessly. The one thing that I might add is that I would prefer to have a tile based UI than list based. Sometimes lists fall within lists and it can be a bit troublesome to find a page at the very beginning of using the software, definitely not indicative of any sort of long term issue I have with the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using a continuous performance management system has allowed me to keep a record of all the work I'm doing and to easily share that with my managers as well as the wider team. I feel more connected with the wider team and aware of all the good work that I've been doing. When it comes time for the annual catch up to talk about my role there is truly no surprises and the conversation way more productive on how I can be my best self at work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It really does requires the team to get in there and to fill in the 15Five reviews weekly but once everyone is involved and they are seeing feedback form their peers and managers - it is really engaging and our team loves it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

15Five allows you to add items to 1on1 topic items is an awesome feature to keep us aligned. I can quickly move from details I captured and want to discuss from one's 15Five submission to a 1on1 topic and then even into an Action Item, which is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was hard to change to a skip a week or bi-weekly model without the assistance of 15Five Support. They did solve it for me where the following week needed people to be set in vacation mode. This was a solve, but to date, the full list of dates for a given week is off due to the due date stating the wrong date, so it causes some confusion, but I tell the team to just disregard.

This reminds me to reach out to Support about this, and maybe there can be some improvement made there.

The other issue I have is that Work that you would have hoped to have completed but did not, does not auto carry over upon submission of your 15Five to work that you should be completing in the upcoming week. I find myself manually copying them there. I recall this being different in the past use of 15Five at my previous employer. Is this something that we have control over setting? Something I'll also reach out to 15Five support about and find out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have spent 2 decades in a garden variety of uninspiring performance review programs, systems, goal trackers, weekly updates- whatever you want to call it. 15/5 is hands down the most efficient and complete system I have encountered (as an individual contributor, leader, or manager) for the work place. It allows you to track to established goals, communicate progress, and stay consistent in updates with simplicity inclusive of adding important comments. I also love the "style" in which this program builds a positive, collaborative culture in my workplace. It helps me to remember those during my week who have made an impact around me- to provide them well deserved kudos in addition to documenting my own performance. I look forward to doing 15/5 every week- and would highly recommend this system of success to anyone! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not anything I would change about the way 15/5 works- or how it is administered at the user level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having 15Five essentially allows us to constantly express gratitude and have honest conversations about things that matter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The latest version of their interface didn't really add much to the user experience. It feels a little like they did such a good job on the core product that they're trying to figure out what to do next, and just changed the interface for something to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the product is centered around a core rhythm: the once-per-week, 15-minute reflection on the week and opportunity to answer questions and provide feedback to one's manager (and from the manager back to the employee). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The OKRs interface is decent, but there are some other products that make it easier / clearer to visualize OKRs in the org chart. Also, why isn't there an org chart feature? All the information is there in the platform... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The questions help me to think through my projects and update as I move along. The phone app is easy to update and close out the week if I forget to do it at the end my work week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That there's no way to prioritize my tasks for the week. I put a P1 or P2 for Priority 1, 2, 3 etc before the task but it would help if that were an option to click on and if the system would rearrange my tasks by the priority I put so I don't have to drag the tasks around.

The phone app didn't have a way to change my vacation dates and I didn't know that it closed the whole week when I put a partial week's date in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love many things about 15Five.

I like the HighFive feature in which we can validate and edify our team members. This creates a sense of community and unity.

I also like the 1 on 1 section. I use it all the time with my staff. I can add my talking points and they can also add theirs which makes it so easy for all of us.

I also like the fact that on my 15Five reports, I can attach pictures to my points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not sure if I dislike anything at this time. I'm very pleased and love 15Five. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that the weekly check-in feature is amazing. I've never used a software to keep track of goals (short-term, long-term, and 1:1) all compacted into 1 tool, so I really appreciate the ability to do so and also receive feedback from my manager every step of the way. It's a good tool for the 1:1's where things can come up during the week and it's an easy place to jot them down as they are accomplished. It's a good way to use just 1 tool instead of a few, and it isn't a tool that is complex or difficult to navigate. The ability to high five folks around the company is also a nice way to give a little bit of recognition to someone in a way that is semi-public but not in a way that is overbearing, it's nice! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, the only thing that I dislike is some of the functionality of closing out items that are past due (review for a superior). It's not a nuisance but it's still something that I see on my dashboard even though there are no action items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The weekly 15Five is is an excellent pulse check on the team. Managers could setup a pool of questions that are rotated through the next several weeks. Sometimes they surface fun team building ideas, what new tools or technology they have learned, and sometimes they surface actual organizational challenges that team members may not want feel comfortable bringing up to a larger group.

Being able to set comments to private, so that it's only between the two of us is great. We can then address those concerns privately in a safe environment. Non-private comments are also easy to bubble up to my own manager by hitting the "pass it up" button, to invite a larger discussion as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The 1-on-1 feature is great, however, when someone adds a 1-on-1 item, it notifies the other side immediately, often times prematurely. Sometimes there are concerns that I would like to note in my 1-on-1 notes ahead of our next meeting (perhaps in a private note), but not yet actually notify my manager yet. It'd be good to set some private notes so they are not going out just yet. Sometimes a concern might resolve itself before then meeting happens, then in that case it no longer needs to brought up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First off, the ability to track my goals week to week makes for super easy performance reviews. I can look back on my weekly reviews and quickly structure the story of my quarter/year. I used to have to go through email kudos etc. and this is so much easier. I like that it prompts me with a few emails a week to capture my wins on the day to day. Second, the ability and encouragement to give kudos across the company on a weekly basis is fantastic. Working in a distributed company, this is an easy and fun reminder to recognize the folks around you. Easy team building. Love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

15Five shows how many weeks in a row you've completed your review on time. I'd like a pause function for the weeks that I'm off. I feel guilty breaking my streak :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Give & get High Fives: Often you don't know what others think about your performance or you don't have the right opportunity to say to a colleague that he or she did an excellent job. High Fives is an easy way to encourage to work more as a team and less than internal competitors.

Variety in questions: I like that every week there is a set of 1,2 questions that are new encourage myself to think deeper about how to improve. That's why I think and describe things to my manager that I probably wouldn't have done otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Let's say improvements:

Pulse Trend: My pulse trend is already high with a 4 out of 5. That speaks for my company, on the other side there is little room for improvement. I had weeks where I could say, yeah I feel like top notch 5 but I wanted to reserve a 5 when I close my first deal.

Adjusting my pulse level to a deeper level would misrepresent my feeling and wouldn't feel right.

Weekly Goal setting: Sometimes I can't plan goals for the next week or priorities in the middle of the week are changing. I need to finish my 15five Friday morning, but this is not where my work of the weeks simultaneously ends, often I still have some work to do to finish my goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.