What’s new this year: Action Items, customizations, and more

As we head into the summer months, we’ve got a round-up of recent exciting product updates to share and some tips to help you enhance your performance management process. 

1:1 Meetings

• Instead of writing your to-dos notes on a post-it, create Action Items right in your meeting. HR Admins can enable Action Items on the meeting settings page. 
• You can share 1:1 meetings with anyone in your company and we've made it easier to find shared meetings.
• As an HR admin, you can implement global visibility for content from the 1:1 Meetings page. 
• Analyze how often empty 1:1 meetings are occurring or exclude them from your results completely
• Scheduling meetings is more accessible now that you can select a date and time on the creation screen. 
• Meeting Slack notifications got an update. Employees are now notified 24 hours before an upcoming meeting.

Customization and User Management

• We’ve created a new role called “Secondary Manager which allows you to grant a coach or second manager access to 360 feedback and objectives.
• Tailor Small Improvements to your organization’s culture and needs with Custom Wording. 
• Restricting fields on user profiles to give greater data consistency. 
• Any user can sign in with Google to log in to their Small Improvements account from our login page.
• Expanded security control to require all users to use 2FA from the security settings panel. 
• Export data for a specific employee on the profile page without having to export individual cycles. 

360 Feedback and Reviews

• In 360s we made it easier to gain feedback faster: employees can nominate without manager approval.
• Managers can now manually release 360 feedback before the cycle deadline. 
• You can make all Review question types into confidential questions
• Automatically send the launch emails for your Review cycle launch
• Calibration is now available, allowing you to set specific periods for managers to edit and share content or ratings. 
• Customize emails for 360s and Reviews on a per cycle basis.

Pulse Surveys

• You can share Pulse results with any user regardless of admin permissions
• HR Assistants can launch new Pulse Surveys and view results for surveys that they have created.
• Edit and update existing Pulse surveys before they go out to employees.
• Get answers when you need them by setting a deadline for monthly Pulse Surveys. 

Coming soon

• We're expanding People Analytics in our tool, if you're a current customer using Retention analytics please reach out to us for early access to expanded reporting. 
• We're continuing to help admins save time with automated emails and workflows, if you have an automation idea don't hesitate to share it with our team. 
• Does your team use Microsoft Teams? Reach out to our support team to gain early access to our integration for Praise in Microsoft Teams. 

Tips and tricks

Our team wants to share our tips for managing your employees with Small Improvements, inspired by our own best practices.