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Integrations
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Week 23 - Google Calendar x Popwork integration 🗓

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Shared by Florian • June 22, 2023

Planning meaningful 1:1 meetings on Popwork just got much easier with our Google Calendar integration!

Simply connect Google Calendar in your Team settings and your 1:1 meetings on Popwork will be added and synchronized with your and your team members' calendars. From the calendar invite, participants will get direct access to Popwork to prepare for the meeting.

Please note that this new integration is currently in beta testing and under review by the Google team.

Finally, if you are using Microsoft Outlook, an integration will be available soon. Stay tuned!

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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Rituals

Week 22 - Reset Popwork questions 🎨

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Shared by Florian • June 22, 2023

You can now reset your 1:1 meeting questions with the initial Popwork template at any time.

As Popwork lets you customize the check-in questions for your team, it’s always useful to be able to access the Popwork template validated by management experts.

Currently, we are also working on adding new management rituals including Performance & Development conversations. Stay tuned!

Other improvements:

  • Added loader state on several action buttons
  • Improved the design of several input and select fields
  • Changed the name “1:1 check-in” for “1:1 meeting” for further clarity

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Integrations
Notifications
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Week 21 - Receive Popwork notifications in Slack ⚡️

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Shared by Florian • June 01, 2023

We have just released one of our most requested features! Now, you can receive Popwork notifications in Slack, and disable email notifications if you like.

To connect Slack go to Settings > Integrations and click on “Connect”. Then go to Settings > Notifications to choose your notifications preferences.

This Slack integration is the first step towards better notifications and alerting. We would love to hear your feedback!

We are also planning to integrate Popwork with Teams in the coming months to offer the same feature to our Microsoft users.

Stay tuned, as we are currently finalizing another important integration: Google Calendar!

Other improvements:

  • Fixed a visual bug in the feedback section
  • Homogenized menu icons across the app
  • Automatically remove empty lines when saving answers or feedbacks
  • Improved header of my profile settings page
  • Allow team members to edit answers even after it was read by their manager, marking answers as “(edited)”
  • Other small visual improvements

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Improvements
Rituals

Week 20 - A series of improvements 🎉

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Shared by Florian • May 25, 2023

We have made a series of visual improvements to bring further clarity in how rituals are displayed in the workspace.

Most notably, we have simplified 1:1 meeting dates on Popwork as we are now only showing the meeting date in workspaces. This makes it much easier to plan, prepare and follow up on 1:1 meetings.

Now, team members are also automatically redirected to their workspaces after sharing a check-in. This will give them direct access to their previous answers, open action items and feedback from their manager.

Finally, it is also now possible to deactivate and activate 1:1 rituals for your team. This will be particularly useful when we add more ritual templates.

Other improvements:

  • New team members now appear instantaneously in the left menu of managers when added to the team
  • Fixed an issue when setting the 1:1 meeting date for today
  • Fixed an issue when adding yourself as the owner of an objective
  • Fixed an issue when adding a custom question during the onboarding
  • Improved the dropdown on the sign-up page
  • Made small design improvements to the left menu

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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Insights

Week 18 - Video management tips 💡

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Shared by Florian • May 11, 2023

Managing a team is not easy and more and more managers are asking us for management advice.

This is why we are introducing in-app management tips. These short videos will give you practical tips to level up your management skills: sharing efficient feedback, running a 1:1 meeting, following up after a conversation, analyzing your team’s KPIs…

You can expect more management advices and insights on your team in the coming weeks. This is key to our strategy to turn Popwork into the smart assistant for managers and teams.

If you want to access all our management resources, you can always access our Popwork management Academy.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Rituals
New feature

Week 16 - More management rituals in the making ⚡️

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Shared by Florian • May 03, 2023

Over the past few weeks, we have made important progress towards our ambition to cover all key management conversations.

We are now able to create any type of templates and will soon be adding a first one with a “Performance & development conversation” which is one of our most requested features. Managers will be able to choose new quarterly, biannual or annual frequencies for this new management ritual.

Let us know if you are interested. We would love to hear your feedback.

Other improvements:

  • Added an explanation video in manager’s onboarding
  • Improved manager’s onboarding experience on mobile

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Improvements
User management

Week 14 - Grant Admin access and Manager role 🔐

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Shared by Florian • May 03, 2023

It is now possible for account admins to grant Admin access to other users. Admins can edit users, access company dashboard and manage billing.

To edit users and their access levels, admins can access their user management console by selecting Settings > Users & Roles.

Other improvements:

  • Added an option to grant a Manager role when creating a user
  • Simplified filters in the Users & roles settings

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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User management

Week 13 - Edit users in bulk ⚡️

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Shared by Florian • April 04, 2023

It is now possible for admins to edit the manager of several users or remove users in bulk.

This should be particularly helpful for admins of large accounts to maintain their user base up to date.

In the coming days, admins will also be able to give or remove Admin access to any user.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

User management
New feature

Week 12 - Search users and quicker access to settings 🔍

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Shared by Florian • April 04, 2023

We have just added search & filtering options to help admins review their user base more easily.

By default, the users list shows ‘active users’ which corresponds to users with a manager or team member role.

In the coming days, we will also be adding features to edit users in bulk to help admin maintain their user base up to date more easily.

In parallel, we also made it easier for everyone to access their settings in one button click (instead of three).

Other improvements:

  • Fixed an issue when trying to remove a one-off question
  • Fixed a small issue with the cursor not focusing when adding an action items

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

User management
New feature

Week 10 - Edit users and their manager ⚙️

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Shared by Florian • March 20, 2023

Admins can now access the full list of active users from their Settings. From there admins can view and edit the manager for each user.

New managers are invited to onboard their team members and existing managers are notified about the addition of their new team members.

In the coming days, we will be adding more features to complete the set of in-app user management features including filtering options and bulk editing.

Other improvements:

  • Added buttons in Settings to access referral page
  • Fixed issue when creating a new team
  • Fixed issue with the removal of the one-off question
  • Fixed small visual glitches in the onboarding and ritual settings

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟