Small Improvements Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

Rippling

Primalogik

Performly Talent

15Five

Small Improvements is a flexible performance management toolkit for small and mid-sized companies. The software supports performance reviews, peer feedback, 1:1 meetings, objectives, employee recognition, and pulse surveys throughout the year.

Small Improvements

Web-based

Software Engineer

It's a great cloud-based solution for appreciating our colleague's work, thank them how much it meant for us and also to build a culture of motivation.

Technical Recruiter

SI helps me keep track of my 1:1 meetings, I also love being able to give praise to my colleagues when I feel they've exceeded expectations. It is very intuitive and easy to use as well.

Manager

Very easy to use and works well on all my devices; they do a good job with recognition and a good effort with design. Just set it up and it's on its own after.

Solutions Engineer

We use it for 1:1s with our direct managers, mid-year reviews, and our end of the year reviews. I love how they give you prompts and allow you to expand and format your review as you'd like.

Account Executive 

It allowed us to both take a look at what we thought were the best performance and what we thought were area for improvement.

User interface is sometimes a bit confusing. There are multiple views of the objectives, and you can do different things in each.

Customer Support Manager

All these features are simple to use & look clean & friendly.

I have been using SI for over 2 years and I love it.

Senior Executive Administrator

Very positive - ease of use has cut down on time spent administrating performance review activities.

Senior Application Specialist

Example: cancelled, or cancelled and reason as holidays, etc.

Director of Development, Mic Productions

If I had to cut our tools budget, SI might not make the cut.

The comments can then reference one of the key results. Originally we set the objectives semesterly, and they got lost amid the day-to-day work we do.

Account Executive

Our company reviewed and tried out a lot of different systems before we found the right solution for us. This one seemed promising because it was integrated with our HRIS.

Integration with outlook also helps preventing scheduling pain-points.

Very positive - ease of use has cut down on time spent administrating performance review activities

Great for small companies

I would highly recommend small-improvements as a all in all tool to do people management (1:1 notes, goals, feedbacks, praisals in the company, etc.). 

Great all in all package for manager

It is easy for our team to work with it. Setting goals and tracking them has never been this easy. With it, our performance reviews are faster and enjoyable. The kudos feature is nice for appreciating the team for their great work.

An amazing Performance Review Software

Small Improvements makes it so easy for all employees to write and receive reviews. It's actually helped me with my performance by being able to go back and reference my goals and things my managers have highlighted for me. 

Small Improvements Makes Annual Reviews a Breeze

We are able to track weekly highs and lows for our team-members.
Feature that enable and overall comment / result for each 1:1 meeting would be great. Example: cancelled, or cancelled and reason as holidays, etc.

Easy feedback collector for agile improvements cycle

We didn't have a system in place for annual reviews or feedback before Small Improvements, it was very informal. Small Improvements allowed for us to easily implement a process to give constructive feedback through an organized platform. 

Small Improvements is easy to use

It's one that has helped us in a direction but are ultimately moving away from it.

Like the idea - hard to implement

I use this software for my semi-annual performance reviews and also to give kudos to the team for the great work they are doing. Very elegant and simple, never had any issues while using this software.

Great Software For Performance Reviews

Intuitive interface but a little pricey

Great performance tool! 

decent feedback tool

Easy to use, but not groundbreaking

I like their customer service. They've always responded in a timely manner. There might be a line, but I've never been able to reach anyone.

Really initiative

Good performance review tool

This seems like a really nice and innovative company. They provided us with a nonprofit license and it is so greatly appreciated!

Easy to use for small offices with limited HR capacity

It was just okay. I don't think my team really loves the site. It feels more like homework than goal setting and tracking. 

Pointless

Overall, small improvements has been with our company for over 2 years, and it is used widely. It's a key tool in keeping track of our company, departmental, and individual goals. Overall, we have a positive experience with it, but I'm not sure if it's fully worth the cost.

Works well, but unsure if it's truly helpful

Very user-friendly performance review system

Well-organized performance review system

It's been okay.

Our company reviewed and tried out a lot of different systems before we found the right solution for us. 
This one seemed promising because it was integrated with our HRIS. Our HRIS is extremely easy to use and intuitive. The integration that they built looked really well as well. It was just under our personal tab. It made it look like it was one system. 

Affordable and customizable 

Reviewing colleagues and ensuring everyone is on the same page and improving

Concise and Easy to Use

As an end user, I've only used it a few times, but it seems like a solid product.

Nice options, easy to use.

I use Small Improvements to manage the objectives of my software development team. I use the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) method, which works pretty well with Small Improvements. I just list the key results in the description of the objective. The comments can then reference one of the key results. Originally we set the objectives semesterly, and they got lost amid the day-to-day work we do. We then changed to quarterly objectives, and that works much better. I work together with my employees to set the objectives, and they know pretty well what they need to accomplish throughout the quarter. It is important that the tool sends out emails to remind people of their objectives. I can really see how employees are working on the objectives throughout the quarter. 

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