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Feedback
New feature

Week 28 - Request feedback from your manager 📥

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Shared by Florian • July 12, 2024

Team members can now request feedback from their managers at any time.

Whether you're seeking feedback on a presentation, asking for guidance after achieving a goal, or simply looking for insights to improve your performance, requesting feedback is now easier than ever.

Team members can request feedback from the left-hand menu, the homepage, or their shared workspace with their manager. Simply specify your request and submit it.

Managers are notified when they receive a feedback request and are prompted to respond.

They can also share feedback with their team at any time.

Soon you will be able to share feedback with anyone.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Other improvements:

  • Managers can now share feedback with team members in a single click directly while reviewing their 1:1 responses. This simplifies the process and saves time.
  • Managers will now receive notifications in their home inbox whenever they receive new feedback submissions. This ensures they stay up-to-date and can address feedback promptly.
  • When clicking a feedback reminder notification, the modal for sharing feedback will automatically open. This eliminates an extra step and makes providing feedback more efficient.

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

The Popwork team 🤟

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Notifications

Week 27 - Biweekly reminder to share feedback 🔔

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Shared by Florian • July 01, 2024

Doubling down on Popwork's objective to help managers share regular feedback with their team members, managers now receive an email (or Slack) reminder to share feedback.

This reminder lists team members with whom the manager has not shared feedback over the past 30 days and enables managers to share feedback in one click.

To begin with, this reminder is sent on Thursday on a biweekly basis. Please let us know if it helps and what frequency would suit you best!

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

The Popwork team 🤟

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Notifications

Week 26 - Never forget to share feedback with one of your team member💡

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Shared by Florian • July 01, 2024

Regularly sharing feedback with each member of your team is a powerful way to boost motivation and foster individual growth.

This week, we’re introducing a new feature designed to help managers ensure no team member is overlooked.

Managers are now prompted on their homepage to share feedback at least once a month with every team member.

Other improvements:

  • When you click on the button in the feedback notifications, it now directly opens the relevant profile with the newly received feedback.

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

The Popwork team 🤟

Insights
New feature

Week 25 - Track the adoption of feedback culture internally 📊

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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
New feature

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 🤟

New feature
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 📊

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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 🤟