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Week 25 - Track the adoption of feedback culture internally đź“Š

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Shared by Florian • June 14, 2024

After the recent launch of a new instant feedback feature, we’re glad to release a simple dashboard to help HR track the adoption of feedback culture internally!

HR are now able to track easily how many feedback managers actually share with their teams. Concretely the table reports the number of feedback sessions completed by managers and the number of feedbacks shared via Popwork.

This is the first step in our broader ambition to grow Popwork as a platform to deploy a continuous feedback culture within companies. Stay tuned for further updates in the coming weeks!

To consult these insights, simply go to Company > Indicators.

Other improvements:

  • Renamed the feedback box below 1:1 answers as a general comment area to avoid confusion with the new instant feedback feature
  • Simplified the team menu to help the manager focus more on team members, 1:1s and feedbacks

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Feedback
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Week 23 - Share instant feedback ⚡️

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Shared by Florian • June 05, 2024

We're excited to announce the launch of our instant feedback feature, designed to foster a culture of regular recognition and continuous feedback!

Managers can now share instant feedback with their team members in one click. Managers are guided to compose short, impactful feedback to congratulate, encourage or suggest improvements.

This is the first step in our broader ambition to grow Popwork as a platform to deploy a continuous feedback culture within companies. Stay tuned for further updates in the coming weeks!

To share your first feedback, simply go to Team > Home and click on Share a feedback.

We would love to hear from you on this new feedback feature. Please let us know in the chat if you have any suggestions.

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Improvements
Insights

Week 20 - New home for managers 🎉

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Shared by Florian • June 05, 2024

Following the release of a new home page for admins, we’re excited to release a new home page for managers.

This new home page gives managers an instant and comprehensive view of their inbox, team engagement level and upcoming rituals.

From there, Managers can quickly spot who is doing good or bad and access more in-depth team analytics.

To access it, simply go to Team > Home.

Other improvements:

  • You can now change the meeting date of a ritual, directly from the ritual itself

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

The Popwork team 🤟

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Insights

Week 17 - Company home for admins 🎉

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Shared by Florian • April 25, 2024

We're excited to announce a new home page designed to give admins an instant and comprehensive view of their organization.

This new home page features a clear view of key metrics, company rituals, and user administration. This gives admins a snapshot of how their company is doing in terms of engagement, management practices, and performance. From there, admins can easily access detailed analytics for more insights.

Admins can also see how management rituals are adopted by teams and can quickly access ritual settings.

We believe this new home page will make it easier for company admins to stay informed and take action to support their teams.

To access it, simply go to Company > Home.

Other improvements:

  • Replaced scores in the dashboard recap table by more comprehensive adjectives
  • Removed top managers (with no managers) from dashboard alerts
  • Reduced significantly the loading time on dashboards
  • Made in-app notifications more clear and explicit when adding a user

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

The Popwork team 🤟

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Objectives

Week 15 - Track objectives progress with key results 🎯

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Shared by Florian • April 11, 2024

You can now add key results to objectives and track progress in a more quantitative manner. Key results are used to define the measurement of the success of an objective and help teams with OKRs to track progress more efficiently.

The status update workflow by team members remains the same, but now includes a progress update on key results. Team members are invited, at the frequency defined by the manager, to reflect on the overall status of the objective and the progress of key results.

Key results are optional and can be added at any time on an objective, simply go to the Objectives tab > Add an objective > Add a key result. From there you will be able to define the key result and add a success metric in percentage or absolute value.

Other improvements:

  • Fixed wording inconsistencies in the drawer showing individual indicators
  • Removed users with no managers from dashboard alerts
  • Fixed an inconsistency in the count of people with a selected perimeter
  • Show action items assigned to self only “My action items” section

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

The Popwork team 🤟

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Check-in
Rituals

Week 14 - Answer rituals in succession and improved company settings ⚡️

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Shared by Florian • April 03, 2024

1) Suggest team members to answers upcoming rituals in succession

When a team member shares their answers in preparation of an upcoming 1:1 meeting, it’s a great opportunity to also take a few minutes to update their objectives.

If they have upcoming rituals to complete, team members are now invited to complete them in succession.

2) Improved company settings

We have reworked the layout of management ritual settings to make it easier for Admins to understand how the Popwork rituals work and edit rituals questions or frequency.

Admins can now find an explanatory video and text for each ritual, making it easy to visualize the employee and manager experience on Popwork.

3) Other improvements

We improved how our rituals' monthly frequency works. We now make sure that rituals repeat on the right week as defined by the manager when setting it up.

In practice, the week number is what defines when the ritual will repeat.

For example, if the manager sets the ritual for the second Tuesday of the month, it will always happen on the second Tuesday of the month.

Another example: if the manager chooses to set the ritual for the last Thursday of the month, the ritual will always repeat on the last Thursday regardless if the month has 4 or 5 weeks.

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Insights
Improvements

Week 13 - Improved dashboard navigation đź“Š

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Shared by Florian • April 03, 2024

We just shipped several improvements to make the dashboard easier to access, use and understand.

Managers and Admins can now visualize the indicators across their teams or the whole company from the same dashboard, using the shortcuts My teams or All teams.

We also made it easier to navigate within the org chart and to access the 3 tabs of the dashboard (engagement, management and performance indicators).

Finally, we also made the visual difference between Teams and Individuals easier to see to help analyse the dashboard metrics more intuitively.

Other improvements:

  • Fixed a bug on the display of individual indicators from the dashboard not loading
  • Fixed a bug on the display of management practices charts not loading
  • Improved the responsiveness of workspaces menu on mobile
  • Fixed an issue preventing objectives to be viewed without refreshing the page when added from the workspace
  • In Users & roles settings, made the user for which an action is required clearer

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Action items
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Week 12 - Due date on action items ⏰

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Shared by Florian • March 22, 2024

We have shipped one of the most requested features!

You can now add a due date to an action item. Simply hover over the action and click on the clock that appears on the right to select a date. When this date expires, it will appear in red to alert you.

Another addition, managers now also have access to all their team’s action items from one tab. To access those, simply head over to the Action items tab in your team menu.

Other improvements:

  • Reduced loading time by 5 on the User & roles tab - this should benefit to Admins of large companies when editing their user base

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Objectives
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Week 10 - New Objectives dashboard 🎯

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Shared by Florian • March 12, 2024

We have added a new dashboard to help Admins and Managers make sure everyone has defined objectives and track their progression status at all levels of the company.

This dashboard also provides visibility on the average number of objectives per person and the list of employees with no defined objectives.

Admins can access this new objectives dashboard from their Company menu (Dashboard) and Managers from their Team menu (Analytics).

Other improvements:

  • Added the possibility to comment on objectives status
  • Improved loading times by 25% for companies with large number of employees
  • Clarified what happen when a user is removed by an Admin
  • Made several small improvements to the monthly digest sent to account Admins

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Insights
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Week 08 - Mood and workload insights at individual level đź“Š

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Shared by Florian • March 12, 2024

Admins now have access to mood and workload insights and their evolution at individual level. This is particularly helpful to understand the trend behind mood and workload scores.

However, please note that detailed answers remain only visible by the manager and team member themselves to preserve trust and confidentiality.

Other improvements:

  • Replaced the tag “🥵Very busy” by “🥵 Complicated” in the mood question to avoid the overlap with the workload question
  • Fixed the text area auto-expand on the mood and workload question
  • Added a "All done" status in the manager's notification area
  • Fixed a bug enabling team members to send a reminder to themselves
  • Added a button to access deleted users from the Users & roles settings
  • Added an error message for Admins trying to delete themselves
  • Removed error message when deleting managers
  • Added a pay wall for suspended accounts because of payment issues
  • Fixed a small bug with the feedback area going into draft mode with no reason

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

The Popwork team 🤟