15Five

Pros

15Five helped us with establishing employee's connection not only during virtual period of work but also during physical work hours. The periodic inputs and feedback on 15Five enable the key areas of focus and the next immediate steps to be done by the employee. There are auto notifications when there is any update on it to the linked email.

Cons

At times, there is no clarity on the update made and a bit tough to locate the exact area.

Pros

Makes it really easy to track my own goals and progress as well as across the team. Super helpful format to have check ins with my mentee.

Cons

The interface isn't the most intuitive at times and I have to click around to get to where I want to go

Pros

Some of the features were useful, such as the weekly check-in with customizable questions.

Cons

15Five's customer service was very poor. If you so much as add a single additional employee for a single day, they will bill you immediately. If you seek to put a hiatus on using 15Five services, they will NEVER refund or credit or work with you in any way.

Pros

What I like the most of 15Five is how moder and easy to use for the employees. I like how it is set up and how convenient it is.

Cons

I wish it had features of giveaways or gift card options to those top employees!

Pros

I like the data you get from 15Five, and the consistency of the questions to get significant data to make business decisions over time.

Cons

I don't feel like it does an amazing job of adapting to the different sizes of departments. Feel like the data works great for larger departments, but harder to get reliable conclusions from smaller departments in our business.

Pros

I like having a more private way to share feedback and how I'm feeling at work.

Cons

Occasionally I'll answer a question and it will require me to enter a second answer before I can submit my check-in.

Pros

I love the weekly check ins, goal setting features, and the review functionality

Cons

This is company specific but outside of goal setting and the performance management features, there is a large lack of engagement org wide

Pros

I love how easy it is to use and navigate. It helps to keep track of meetings and notes so that we have a reference point for performance.

Cons

15Five does not seem to lack much when it comes to features and use. I don't think there are any cons I could share at this moment.

Pros

15five is great for setting my objectives and monthly 121s with my manager to check in

Cons

Asks for a weekly update when realistically there isn't the time for that many check in

Pros

15Five allows our employees to centrally check-in each week and provide feedback on themselves, plus feedback on everything around them.

Cons

The onboarding could have gone a bit better.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

The integration 15Five has to enhance work performance and coaching is great. It's also very easy to use

Cons

I don't currently dislike anything at 15Five (that's a good thing!)

Pros

15Five helps my colleagues and I collaborate with our line manager in creating goals, reviewing plans, and solving problems, and our 1:1 job helps us do this smoothly. It's great that we can instantly recognize each other's efforts with the all-encompassing display board that all departments can see. 15Five makes it fun to set and track your weekly list of goals, and continuous alerts help you review progress and take timely corrective action. Surveys, which are customized to each team's needs, help make sure everyone understands the new policies and procedures. It is also wonderful that 15Five has enabled management, through reports and distinctive dashboards, to conduct reviews and evaluate performance based on accurate data, which greatly enhances transparency.

Cons

I didn't find any complications in 15Five's functions; I just needed time to understand how to use it correctly, and the support I received helped clarify everything.

Pros

The software provides an easy-to-use interface for managers and employees to track progress, set goals, and give and receive feedback. The weekly check-in feature is particularly useful, as it encourages regular communication and helps me stay on top of employee progress. Additionally, the platform integrates with other HR software, which helps me manage all of my HR tasks in one place.

Cons

While the software is generally easy to use, there can be some confusion around the different types of feedback and goals that can be set. Additionally, the software can be slow to load at times, which can be frustrating when I am trying to quickly access information.

Pros

Our experience with the program was positive. The team really liked the ability to recognize each other every week.

Cons

The questions get really repetitive and overall, we can use other free platforms to accomplish the same thing.

Pros

User: A great tool for giving a quick update on my tasks and projects at the end of each week. Its like a log of my activity, challenges, decisions and outcomes. It is also a good place to raise any concerns & issues. Being online means I can complete my weekly update from anywhere, and at any time.

Reporting: The API is brilliant. We have used the API to generate our own reports for senior management and staff that track how we are feeling as a company, the 'High Fives', and how everyone is going with their weekly 15Five feedback.

Management: Senior management can quickly get an indication of how all staff are feeling, how all staff are getting on with their work, and who is making a difference for other staff. It also makes it easy to get regular feedback, and that feedback was very useful for annual reviews.

Cons

User: The software is very good at 'one-on-one' feedback, but most of us work as part of a team and this is perhaps one area that 15Five could develop further.

Reporting: Would be useful to have Tags that we can assign for tasks and projects so that we can link them with our timesheet software to capture effort etc.

Management: Would be useful to have sentiment analysis for comments on tasks and projects so that we could quickly identify strongly negative and positive comments.

Pros

- The most liked feature is we can able to give the High-five to the co workers. and the set of 1-1 review helps to understand the employers.

Cons

- the unlike part is sometimes it's giving confusion to filter the OKR's

Pros

I'm not going to lie, I hated using this software. It facilitates the kind of micro managing, having meetings about meetings style of working within a team that I hate about non-profit life, and am glad to have left behind.

Cons

I just never got anything valuable from using this software. I don't understand the need for it, and I found using it to be a giant waste of time.

Pros

The thing I love the most about 15Five is that I feel in the loop without micromanaging my staff. I can easily pull up their account and see what tasks they're working to accomplish that week, hold them accountable without being in their face, and praise their efforts, all in one place!

Cons

I do wish there were more automated question selections that populated.

Pros

The ability for management to take a temperature check of how the team is doing and or feeling is really valuable. (I do not know what the cost of this software is however) It also helps people high five each other when ever they want to give their friends/co-workers a simple & quick compliment which is really good for building comradery.

Cons

I think that if it is a mandatory tool to use every day it can become more of a annoying tool rather than a helpful one. Once or twice a week will suffice.

Pros

The many different ways you can nudge employees to enjoy and benefit from working together. From giving high fives to anyone in the company, to the weekly check on how employees are feeling, to asking targeted questions, all of these help to figure out how my team is doing and feeling. To make things even easier, we wrote an integration with Slack to make it even easier to give high fives. High fives are a nice way of encouraging team members to help each other, we tabulate all the high fives collected and distribute prizes accordingly. The 1 on 1 planning feature was also useful, it helped to focus the 1 on 1 conversation into a way of measure progress against key OKRs.

Cons

While 15five works well for specific use cases, it would be better served as part of a total HR solution. In the end, we found that the pricing was too expensive as our organization grew and budgets got tighter. It doesn't handle any core HR functions so it was hard to justify. I would love to see it become more integrated and attached with broader HR solutions.

Pros

Ability to list my tasks and goals for the new week ahead of time ; while also reserving the choice to add tasks as I finish them.This option is very important for effectively tracking task and completing goals .
It has an intuitive user interface and I am allowed to freely customize how I receive my notifications.

Cons

There were weeks where I successfully completed my tasks and had no complaints , yet I was unable to submit my form until I had to report an issue or complaint ,which was non-existent ; just to enable me submit the form.

Pros

We use 15Fives as part of our employee management tools as we consult on client sites away from office alot. Many times our resources are not physically with managers for updates and reviews. 15Fives provides a great way to communicate and stay of top of items and tasks. Objectives are also very useful to manage KPI and larger tasks for company and personal growth.

Cons

Not many options for delegating duties/access to multiple levels of admin/management.

Pros

I love the accessibility of 15Five. I can access it anywhere I have internet service.

Cons

I have not found anything about 15Five that I do not like.

Pros

It's intuitive, heading in the right direction on how 1:1, feedback and performance reviews should happen. They are continuing to build on the product and releasing new features regularly. I didn't find many products like 15Five.

Cons

There are still some bugs however their customer support team is absolutely outstanding. Some of the workflows can be a bit confusing (1:1 under 'my teams') however it sounds like these are being figured out. No Android app functionality at this time.