15Five

Avantages

The best feature is far and away, the reporting and analytics offered by 15Five. The robust amount of date you can access and generate actionable insights from is well worth some of the pitfalls you experience.

Inconvénients

While you are able to choose from a library of preselected questions for your time-triggered surveys (we did 2x month,) the questions begin to become repetitive over time. This caused a sharp decrease in engagement scores after 7/8 months.

Avantages

The tool can be used by workers to alert team managment of dissatisfaction in a way that has a lower bar to action. In this i mean raising dissatisfaction can be difficult with team management often because it requires a push from workers to raise complaints. This software can provide an outlet that has a lower barrier to participation to alert dissatisfaction - this can get the process rolling to resolve these issues.

Anonymous feedback can be given if the software is configured for this. This can be useful to understand how a team feels.

Inconvénients

This software to me feels like a solution that is better resolved by a more human touch from team management and company HR.
This software helps to provide feedback from multiple levels of a team to ensure members of the team are satisfied. I shall focus on what i feel is the most important purpose of this software, helping resolve dissatisfaction in a team.
This should in my opinion be dealt with using a human touch and face to face help from management for employees and not through a semi automated tool. 15Five sends out surveys and feedback requests every week to employees to ask for their feedback on how work is going. This to me feels not like the best solution for organisations.

Avantages

The software has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to set up and manage performance evaluations.It provides real-time data and insights into employee performance, allowing managers to make informed decisions about employee development.The software is highly customizable and can be adapted to meet the specific needs of different organizations.It encourages collaboration between employees and managers, promoting open communication and continuous feedback.

Inconvénients

There is a learning curve involved in getting the most out of the software, and it may take some time to master all of its features.The software may not integrate with other tools that organizations are already using, making it less convenient for some users.It is a premium software and may not be affordable for smaller organizations or businesses with limited budgets.

Avantages

I'm not going to lie, I hated using this software. It facilitates the kind of micro managing, having meetings about meetings style of working within a team that I hate about non-profit life, and am glad to have left behind.

Inconvénients

I just never got anything valuable from using this software. I don't understand the need for it, and I found using it to be a giant waste of time.

Avantages

This SaaS offering is very simple - a way to quickly give "virtual" high fives to other colleagues as well as report back on your current status and mood. The website has a simple and intuitive interface. Our company would use this the tally all the feedback and kudos during the week, then present a small gift to the person with the most kudos. We also had ICs do status reports using 15five which rolled up weekly. This is actually one of the best uses as it beats using google docs.

Inconvénients

Ultimately it was deemed that 15five did not differentiate itself enough from other similar applications to merit the monthly payment. We resorted to tallying kudos using a custom Slack integration which worked out just as well. It did not have enough features to make it indispensable in our normal workflow.

Avantages

The UI for the entire web application is very nice. It's easy to navigate. I can access my past 15fives, high fives, all from one screen which is great. They've made it very easy to navigate on the site which is great!

Inconvénients

There are no advanced editing options when submitting a 15five. I've wanted to include images in the past but have not been able to, so it does have it limitations.

Avantages

The high-five's
The weekly update emails
The view into the entire company's OKRs and being able to tie your own back to the parent objectives

Inconvénients

It's hard to navigate. I've been using it for over 8 months and I still don't know where everything exists and there are so many buttons on certain pages it can be difficult to create what should be an easy to do thing like OKRs

Avantages

I love the fact that you can give honest feedback without the face to face confrontations you would normally have if these types of questions were being asked directly by management or even your boss. This is a great tool for improving the communication and ironing out issues within the team and workplace. I found it really easy to use.

Inconvénients

I really enjoyed using this software, I don't think I have anything negative to say about it.

Avantages

The slack integration. High Fives given are posted to a Slack channel for the whole team to see.

Inconvénients

For me, it can put distance between team leads and team members. Instead of talking face to face, you are sending them a report on how you feel, and what you hope to achieve. I think it is a very inhuman touch to management, but I understand that it is useful for team leaders that tend to be very busy, and don't always have bandwidth to have these types of conversations during work time.

Avantages

ease of use, allows you to provide feedback to management and make suggestions on where you might need help

Inconvénients

feel like you are being nagged and you constantly have to think of something to say just to fill out the form.

Avantages

15Five is a great platform for collecting feedback from coworkers and supervisors. I love the high-five feature for giving public shoutouts to coworkers that did something well.

Inconvénients

Although I like the platform, I find it hard to prioritize. The feedback forms are repetitive every week and it makes them a bit forgetful.

Avantages

If you aren’t currently tracking one on ones, this is a start! It’s a great way to check up on employees informally.

Inconvénients

Their support team wasn’t the best. It took them awhile to help with my issue. The platform is no replacement for a great one on one! It would be nice if they gave you a structure for one on ones and a checklist for each meeting.

Avantages

I think its a solid idea to help managers and their team keep track of goals and be held accountable.

Inconvénients

It is not an essential product for my business so it just isn't used all that much at my place of work.

Avantages

I like that my managers can respond privately to my comments.

Inconvénients

I personally find the software very clunky. It's not user friendly, and I find it difficult to mark objectives as done. I've also had check ins moved to previous weeks (and I haven't found a way to delete them). I'm not a fan.

Avantages

I like the idea of giving employees the opportunity to feedback

Inconvénients

The software can sometimes become a substitute for face to face interactions.

Avantages

overall the 15five is great just wish the questions would change more

Inconvénients

The same question over and over. Need to ask other things. what was your GP, What was you RO dollars.

Avantages

Easy to use and keep track of your goals.
You can quickly acknowledge other people on your teams to thank them for their hard work.

Inconvénients

Not always necessary - hard to constantly be filling out 15Fives.
Not too much else to dislike.