Betterworks Reviews & Product Details

It is very easy to use. The tabs are organized in such a way that everything I need is easy to find. It's very intuitive. One can just go in and start using the system.

Another thing that I like about it is the fact that it's customizable. We have done a couple of changes to the specs so that it more closely matches the needs of the company. We have integrated many things such as career development focus for the coming quarter, and testimonials from other users.

One can also view the goals of other employees if they are tagged as viewable by anyone. It makes it easy to benchmark one's goals with the goals of a comparable employee or team.

I can view my goals, the goals of my manager, the goals of my direct reports, and the goals of other people who are not necessarily on my team. If there are corporate goals that many employees are supposed to put under their individual goals, one can very easily view them, and copy-paste if needed.

The fact that you can request feedback from other employees makes it very easy to take other people's points of view when a manager makes a performance evaluation of a team member. One can simply type the name of a person that your team member works with, say an internal client, and request them to provide useful feedback. If you have many direct reports, all that feedback may be accessed in one place. Compared to asking for feedback via email, this method is so much more convenient. With email, I could get several pieces of feedback and have a hard time searching for them, but with Betterworks, they're all in one tab.

I also like it that the manager is alerted once their team member has completed their self-assessment. This makes it easy for the manager to move on the next step of the appraisal process by putting in their own comments to what the employee has written down.

I also like the fact that goals from the previous year are still visible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I suppose the idea of linking my goals with the goals of another person is a bit tricky. That's one thing that I need to figure out how to do. I work around it by just copying and pasting other people's goals that are relevant to me.

I think the term that is used is alignment. When you align your goals to someone else, your goals get linked together. This means that if one person does not meet their goals, it will impact the other person's rating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Goals and Monthly Check-in/YES tracking are very helpful in setting up and tracking the priorities. It also helps in backtracking conversations which was a nightmare looking into emails/documents previously.

Might be an organization specific setting, but I like it very much that I can see public goals for anyone in the organizations. And the linking of goals is a great feature as well, as it helps in appropriately aligning the priorities within an Org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI could have been better, Like I feel that the current one looks too bright and previous version was much better, similarly others may have different opinion, so providing themes might be best.

Having a Rich Text box with Bullets and basic formatting like bold/italics/underling would make the text much more readable, especially for the Monthly Checkin/YES forms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is clean and easy to use, and making updates is quick and easy. It's simple to add new objectives, tag collaborators, and complete check-ins regularly without taking too much time away from the work you're actually tracking. It's also easy to link your personal objectives to your manager's, and all the way to company-level priorities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you create an objective, it's not very clear how to slide or defer it. We all know that business priorities change, and sometimes an objective is 50% complete because the client or company pivoted, not because you lapsed in your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease in goal setting.

Easy to use for manager and to employees as well.

Friendly reminders for check-ins for the one-on-one meetings.

Easily set goals for each one on one meeting which is very helpful for me and for my manager during the meeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Your app is perfect.

Would love to have a mobile app as well and receive push notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use for all levels of a company.

Weekly reminders to check-in for meetings with the manager.

Helps in setting a goal for each meeting/quarter/year which is very helpful in tracking the progress of organization/team/individual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Betterworks is perfect.

I am a person who uses mobile more, so would be great if you provide a mobile app as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The upsides of Betterworks is that the GUI is very easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the current time there isn't anything that I don't like about Betterworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to add and manage objectives and key results. This is far better than tracking this manually through an online spreadsheet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wish we could rank objectives and then sort on that ranking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Betterworks has always played a key role in shaping up the career and also set the goals for every quarter, which helped me individually to focus on the set goals and also to achieve better tasks in a timely manner. Especially manager & associate conversation are more insightful. it's easy to use on multiple platforms, like apple & android.

I like the live chat option as well. This absolutely transparent to even the goals of the leaders in the organisation which helps set your focus and run towards it. I think its very helpful large organisations to keep multiple employees track and help in goal setting and track.

BetterWorks has worked really well for us to be able to share progress, celebrate wins, stay focused, and collaborate across departments to best leverage our unique skills to achieve our top company goals. We've been using it for going on four quarters now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside, multiple tabs its confusing in the beginning to understand the layout but later on once you get used to it, can figure out quite easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is so much I like about this system. From a user experience perspective it really doesn't get much easier. Our employees were able to quickly adopt multiple "modules" (Goals, Conversations & Feedback) within Betterworks with very little training. The conversations module is my absolute favorite as it pulls everything a manager/employee would need to have a conversation into 1 well organized page; goals, feedback, prior 1:1 meetings and employee/manager questions that both parties can answer all from 1 easy screen! From a goals perspective most of our organization uses the goals module for tracking traditional goals while some use it to track their OKRs and it works great for both. Everything on the user side is so simple! Also, the system is fairly configurable and very quick and easy to do - you can just about set up the system yourself. We plan to launch their recognition module and their recently launched calibration (9-block) module within the next 2 months.

Customer support is A+. From my sales guy, to my implementation manager to my account manager and everywhere in-between they all want us (my company) to be successful. They are more than just tacticians and they truly helped me think through my program. They have also been extremely responsive to our needs/questions and give me as much time as I have need with them. They are open to my feedback on system enhancements and already in the first few months of being a customer they have taken some (not all) of our recommendations and made enhancements to their platform. It's been a great experience so far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much really, this product is well thought out and we really like it! Probably the biggest opportunity with this product is their reporting and analytics - very basic and not very robust at the moment. Feedback module seems to still be growing but performs good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the user-friendly layout, after a few minutes the training can walk you through just about every feature. I love that I can continuously track and share my goals and objectives for my current role. It keeps me confident I can move in a better working direction than without Betterworks. I also like how I am able to view my team's and organization's goals and align myself with them.

It is one of the most simple platform to use related to performance goals. That my manager and executives can glance at when it comes time to talk about my performance. It makes my day to day easier in that Betterworks prepares me for a positive review of my job performance and goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That there are some folks who need additional training, so if there were a way to track folks who don't use it correctly an administrator can reach out to assist them with proper training. It's normally those who don't use it regularly, so I think getting leaders more in-depth training first and guiding their team through may help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to align to higher level goals, and for management see a broad overview of everyone's progress in one place. It does take constant work to motivate our teams to input their data into Betterworks, but it does pay off. Once that data is in, it is invaluable. I really appreciate the work Betterworks has put in to make inputting that data as easily as possible. By providing a Chrome plugin, a slack plugin, and an easy interface, it stays close to the team's workflow, and tends to remind them on its own, to keep updating their goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It seems that without constant practice, it is hard to figure out the relationship between the navigation links and the filters (My Objectives, My Peers, Top Company, Objectives, Objectives I Follow). Do the links just assign a preset of filters or do they do more than that? Can you access the same information from any link by changing your filters, or is there information that can only be gained by being on certain links? When I watch my teammates, and can tell they struggle with the same lack of understanding. It could just be a proper training is needed to understand that, but it's not intuitive enough for any of us to figure out on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how the tool provides a platform to assist in setting goals per quarter with the goal in mind to enhance performance in specific areas. I highly recommend Betterworks strategic concept of making a tool that can be tailored to each individual's goals in mind. This is a great tool that can be used to measure efficiency and progress when setting goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike as the tool is simplified and easy to use, with having a set goal put in place. This is a great tool that can be used to measure efficiency and progress when setting goals. I highly recommend Betterworks strategic concept of making a tool that can be tailored to each individual's goals in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to add goals and milestones to see a percentage completion bar to track my objectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Editing the end date of a milestone can be a bit confusing - as it is based off of the main goal date. Having the ability to edit the date from within could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Betterworks simple interface and user friendly. In an organisation we can clearly the goals set by executives and how the priority changes along with deliverables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Until now I didn't any see any dislike features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keep track of progress made, contributions done in one place which can be easily viewed by your manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

manually updating everytime by going into portal would be better if some specific set of questions come over slack to update my progress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to navigate as user. Good visibility into other team member goals. Easy access with SSI (Okta). Ability for organisation to share Company-wide goals. Good filter settings to see current and past goals. Recent “View Stream” cards update is a nice addition, easy to keep track of next steps in and to get updates on team progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looks a bit plain, only a small complaint however. For it's purpose, I have no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use (and easy to customize and administer) and people really seem to engage with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is some functionality I would like to see, like the ability for admins to proxy to help managers, but I believe they are always working on improvements, so excited to see what else they come up with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Betterworks is generally very easy to use! This is refreshing to see when so many products seem to be created and tested only by Developers, rarely with the end user in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasionally it is difficult to associate Key Results with those of colleagues. This may be intentional (given the logic of Objectives vs. OKRs), but I would like to see the tool becoming more tailored to the desired employee usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to keep track of tasks and goals while sharing seamlessly with my manager and peers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would be nice to have a mobile application for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using Praises, setting up and following okr's and performance reviews. I love the fact that all is in one place. No need to switch around different apps. It visually pretty and you immediately see where to put your efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we first took the app into use, understanding the logic seemed like a bit of a nightmare. We deleted each other objectives and had lots of duplicates in the system. Also sometimes it's hard to find the correct views to view i.e. team level OKR's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything just works! I was able to get in and out with no hassle and continue on with my day. The layout is clean and very easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No issues so far as i have began to use it no so long ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the social component where you can check on shared goals and collaborated projects to reach said goals. It is beneficial to align your goals with those of your manager or fellow colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My goals have been erased numerous times because there is no save option when you are typing out your goals. There should be a preview option and a save option, instead of just a post one. It can be a bit confusing knowing when your work has been saved or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monthly check in, Update progress tab, Year end summary Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphical representation and user interface of goals can be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the interactive aspect it brings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not always sure when I have messages or need to check in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.