Roadmap and Recent Launches

In addition to the recently launched Summaries, you can now check for Inappropriate Language, Gender Imbalances and get practical advice for Group Trainings.

We added an easy but powerful improvement to encourage clarity in Key Results. Target Dates help the author focus on what is truly achievable in a timeframe, and the Objective Coach will of course take these dates into account too.

Additionally, Key Results can now we reshuffled and they are always editable, not just when the Objective is edited.

We’ve entirely overhauled the writing assistant for Reviews and 360s, and it’s now also available for self-assessments.

The design is now more lightweight and allows parallel work on the content. In addition to writing suggestions it offers a “coach mode” that guides you towards making feedback more impactful and helpful.

Craft SMARTer goals with the help of our latest AI-powered feature, the Objectives Coach. It will prompt your employees to refine their objectives,  so that you don’t have to.

You’ll find the coach on your own current(!) objectives and on the objectives of your team members.

Running multiple cycles in parallel? Curious about a team’s performance trajectory over time? Now you can consolidate the results of several review cycles into one unified report, with advanced filtering and sorting options to help you slice and dice your data according to your needs.

Get AI insights for your entire review cycle, or for select reviews, like for a department or for a location. Learn more on the feature page.

You can now see your team’s and your company’s objectives at a glance, and apply powerful filtering and grouping to get the bigger picture quickly.

Your Review dashboard now boasts powerful filters and grouping. Easily spot patterns and gaps across teams, departments, tenure, or demographics. See where your people shine and where more support is needed.

Confidential 360 Questions help teams share honest feedback safely, so you can strike the right balance between transparency and psychological safety. Customize your questionnaire with confidential questions whose answers will be hidden from the employee.

Your PDF Exports just got a refresh. They have a streamlined design and are faster than ever before.

Make sure your employees never skip a question. Questions can now be made mandatory in Anytime Feedback and 360 Reviews.

We’re excited to launch a streamlined design and improved navigation. Together, they will make SI more intuitive and prepare us for future improvements.

Stay accountable and productive in meetings by carrying over unchecked talking points.

Become an Action Hero with our newest feature, Feedback-in-Action. Now you can turn 360 feedback into an Objective with the power of AI. This new feature ensures feedback leads to progress, not just reflection.

We revised the team page to open the sidebar for quick access to all of an employee’s core data, and also included “dotted” team members to the page.

Cascading Objectives allow you to add Company and Group Objectives to Small Improvements so that everyone can work towards a shared vision. Add transparency and alignment to your organization by setting up a Cascading Objective cycle today.

Taking a summer vacation and still wanting to drive Feedback Initiatives? No problem. Automating Feedback is now a lot simpler with the merging of two of our favorite features. Find Automations in your Anytime Feedback feature to make your life a little easier.

Cycle timelines are a place for you to get useful information, fast. That’s why we made the Objective timeline nice and tidy so that you don’t have to waste time managing dates and deadlines.

A spring clean up is underway with some small tweaks that have a big impact. You will notice a cleaner UX throughout the app that makes it easier than ever to give and receive the feedback you need.

Small updates, big improvements. Our design just got a refresh. You’ll notice a more modern look on the home page and throughout the app.

Control how you want your organization to use AI features with the ability to disable self-service AI features using our new toggle in the Settings panel.

AI-generated Summaries allow Managers to view a synopsis of their Performance Reviews to identify key themes and easily follow up with their direct reports.

The beta version of the Manager Activation dashboard is designed to give Admins more insight into the activity and engagement of their organization’s managers. Easily track and analyze their effectiveness with their teams.

Admins can select participants for new review cycles using filters, which is quicker and more precise than selecting users manually from a list

Writing feedback just got easier with the help of our AI writing assistant. We designed our AI writing assistant to be a coach so that employees, managers and admin can learn how to create accurate and valuable feedback.

The Continuous Feedback widget on employee and Admin’s homescreens has been expanded to provide Praise suggestions and usage.

Streamline your 360 set up by selecting one of three different cycle types when setting up a new 360 cycle: Peer-to-Peer, Upwards Manager, and Full 360. Reviewers are nominated automatically based on the cycle type selected.

It’s now possible to run Pulse Surveys without purchasing the add-on package. You can run four Pulse Surveys per year.

Our new Continuous Feedback widget feature encourages teams to easily launch feedback requests from their home dashboard using smart prompts.

A new Automations trigger allows you to send follow-ups to managers or team members after a 1:1 meeting has occurred, for example with Anytime Feedback.

We’ve added in more scheduling options to 1:1 meetings Automations to make it possible for teams to refine when they meet.

Self-assessments are now available in 360s and Anytime Feedback.

Automated Reviews are now available in our Automations feature. Create cycles that repeat based on a template.

Feedback requesters can now nudge reviewers, speeding up the feedback process.

There is now an option to add all managers to review their reports during Quick 360 Review Cycles.

You can now group Pulse Surveys by employment type so you can learn about challenges part-timers (or full-timers) are facing.

Automations now support specific employees, empowering you to tailor automated actions to smaller groups of people.

Introducing Automations for HR  🎉  Enable automations to save time and supercharge your workflow. Learn more in our Help Center.

Default visibility for managers: HR now has the power to set default visibility for managers in Anytime Feedback, giving them greater control over information sharing.

Improved communication in calibration reviews: We will now send an automatic email notification to managers when they can begin sharing in a calibration review.

Introducing customizable templates for Performance Reviews and 360s. Create and update templates throughout the year as needed and launch a new cycle when ready.

Schedule reoccurring 1:1 Meetings in-app with our new Automations update. Apply a template to your automation to help save even more time and add structure to your meetings.

Need a record of all your meetings? Export your 1:1s for a history of all talking points, notes, and action items.

Decide which type of cycle you’d like to launch in Reviews by selecting the type when launching your cycle. A calibration review gives you advanced settings and a pre-calibrated rating option.

Set it and forget it! You can now send the 360 cycle kickoff email automatically.

Strategically tackle your action items with new tags for prioritization.

You don’t have to wait for a Performance Review to self-reflect. Anytime Feedback now supports self-assessments.

Need to update the visibility settings for all your past 1:1 meetings with someone? We’ve added a button that allows you to share them all at once. Learn more!

Level up your feedback with two new question types for Anytime Feedback.

We’ve upgraded and streamlined the navigation experience for HR Admins. Learn more about what changed.

Customize Anytime Feedback emails under the email settings page, allowing you to easily tailor these notifications to fit your team’s needs.

Individually-driven 1:1 Meeting templates are here! Now, anyone can create a template that will quickly generate the talking points they use the most. Learn more.

Our new Anytime Feedback dashboard includes completion and participation statistics, as well as new filtering options. Check it out.

Take some work off your plate and automate reminders in Performance Review cycles! Learn more.

Asking for and receiving feedback just became more effortless than ever. Our new Anytime Feedback feature encompasses requesting feedback and giving feedback into one easy, straightforward action. Learn more.

You asked, we answered. Now you can extend individual deadlines in a review cycle. Learn how!

We’ve made it easier to import and synchronize employee data. Our new integrations screen allows you to easily integrate with Workday or set up a custom user import.

Better understand your workforce by using our new hidden profile fields to track employment status and terminations. Learn more.

The Timeline sections in reviews, 360s, and objectives have a new look for summer. This includes updates to the review calibration process. Check it out!

Stay on top of management changes in Small Improvements. Managers will now receive a notification when someone assigns them a new report.

New time filters for 1:1 Meetings allow pages to load more quickly and efficiently.

We’ve created a new role called “Secondary Manager”. HR Admins can now grant Secondary Managers visibility into 360° Feedback, Objectives, and Performance Reviews. Learn more in our help center.

Tailor Small Improvements to your organization’s culture and needs with Custom Wording. Now you can easily update feature names and other language used throughout the tool.

Excited to share 360 feedback with your employees? Managers can now manually release feedback before the cycle deadline. Learn more!

Now any user can sign in with Google to login to their Small Improvements account from our login page, making it easier to access your account on the fly.

Looking to share meetings with people other than your manager? We’ve updated 1:1 Meetings so you can share them with anyone in your company under the visibility settings in your meeting. Click here to learn more.

Starting today, HR Assistants can launch new Pulse Surveys and view results for surveys that they have created.

We’ve made it easier to schedule future 1:1 Meetings. You can now select a date and time on the creation screen for a new 1:1.

Looking to export all of the feedback, performance reviews, and objectives for a specific employee? There is now a button on the employee profile page that allows you to do just that! Learn more.

Now all question types can be made into confidential questions. This makes it easier for managers to leave confidential feedback in linear, multiple-choice, checkbox, or drop-down answers.

Need to make changes to a pulse survey before it goes out? Now you can edit and update existing surveys before they go out to employees.

We’ve tweaked the timing on Slack notifications for 1:1s. Employees are now notified 24 hours before an upcoming meeting.

Get more out of the 1:1 Meetings dashboard with a new filter for meetings with no added content. Analyze how often empty meetings are occurring or exclude them from your results completely.

HR Admins can enable Action Items on the meeting settings page. Instead of writing your to-dos notes on a post-it, create Action Items right in your meeting.

Looking to share Pulse Survey results with your team? You can now share results with any user regardless of admin permissions. Results and comments will be available to viewers. Read more in our Help Center.

Get answers when you need them by setting a deadline for monthly Pulse Surveys. This reminds your employees to submit in time their answers, so you can analyze responses and make adjustments before the next Survey.

As an HR admin, you can now set global visibility for content in 1:1 Meetings. As an employee, adjust these settings and decide who can see them.

Customize 360° Feedback emails for each cycle. You can edit emails informing managers to nominate reviewers, nudge reviewers to provide feedback, and more.

Spend less time thinking about and writing your Performance Review questionnaire by picking from our new question bank. Quickly launch a cycle with pre-formatted templates that can be tailored to your needs.

Send automated reminder emails and/or Slack notifications for Pulse Surveys. Nudge your employees to complete a weekly, monthly, or quarterly Survey before the due date.

Feeling overloaded by 360° feedback, public Objectives, or other notifications from your Slackbot? Turn these off or on for all employees in your Slack integration settings.

Now you can edit email notification templates for individual Performance Review cycles. Make them work for you by adjusting the wording to fit your purpose, choosing your preferred signature, or disabling any email templates you don’t want to use.

We’ve added in a new Pulse Survey: Return to work. This empowers teams to gauge employees’ comfort with returning to the office. You’ll find it when launching your next Pulse Survey.

If you’re starting your Performance Review cycle in future, you can now automatically schedule and customize the launch email. When you set up a cycle timeline, the notification will send on the time and date you want the cycle to start.

You can now export participation statistics for employee driven Feedback Requests. Click here to learn more in our help center.

It’s now possible to decide if you’d like to allow employees to submit their nominations for 360 feedback without manager approval. Read more in our support documentation here.

Looking to upload protected documents for performance conversations? It’s now possible to attach protected files to employee profiles. Useful for salary and bonus information, or performance improvement plans.

Having trouble keeping your department and team names consistent across employees? You can now restrict profile edits from the User Management settings screen.

It’s now possible for employees to respond directly to Pulse Surveys in Slack. We’ve additionally added up to 10 scale choices in Pulse questionnaires, as well as expanded filter options on the heat map.

Employee’s objectives can now be browsed hierarchically, making it easier to see if they are aligned.

Tailor your pulse surveys and spot patterns quicker. Adjust question scales for more precise results, and pick which questions should be optional. Then view results as heatmaps to quickly see emerging issues.

Updates to Pulse Surveys and Retention Analytics offer you actionable data even faster. Build unbiased surveys with our templates. Then see how our improved algorithm surfaces leave-risk predictions for more employees. Plus new filters quickly surface actionable retention insights.

Two new modules! Pulse Surveys provides frequent employee feedback to help you respond on the fly. With Retention Analytics, you can get clear and actionable insights on who’s leaving when. They’re bundled into one powerful Engagement and Retention Add-on, which you can try for free.

Our Slack app now reminds you of your upcoming 1:1s. It even allows you to add talking points and notes on the spot.

The email configuration page received a fresh look to help you customize your automated emails. Craft your messaging and turn emails on or off with ease. Set a custom sender name, like “The People Team,” that everyone will recognize.

The ratings chart in the Review Cycle overview has received an overhaul. See at a glance how ratings are distributed and easily apply filters.

Admins can now easily import and bulk update reviewers’ ratings, allowing for maximum flexibility in your performance calibration process.

Rather than using tricky slash commands, you can now create Praise in Slack with an interactive pop-up. Type /praise and hit Enter to try it out.

Our data shows that users who get notified about performance reviews via Slack are 25% more likely to work on them within the first 24 hours. So we made these notifications available to everyone.

We’ve added new question types to 360° Feedback to create a consistent experience across Performance Reviews and 360° Feedback.

When composing a Performance Review questionnaire, administrators can now add confidential questions. This is especially useful for calibration and promotion management. Learn more.