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With new reporting, you can strengthen your workforce planning and better inform your development initiatives. Pulled directly from the development plan, the data shows you employees’ real-time development objectives.

See the percentage of employees who want to:

Filter the data by demographic variables to gain even deeper insights to drive your employee development strategy.

With Performance Insights you can quickly understand trends in your company’s performance outcomes. The demographic filtering allows you to easily spot groups that are performing well and those that might need more support. If you’re not sure how to interpet your results, we’ve included science backed guidance directly in the product to help. The insights can help identify potential biases or inconsistencies in your performance data, so you know where to focus calibration conversations in order to create a more fair and equitable process.

We’ve made enhancements to the sentiment analysis model that sits behind our Engagement Survey Comments Report, lifting our classification accuracy very close to the level of expert humans.

With this more accurate understanding of the sentiment of employee comments, you can quickly, easily and confidently shape a compelling narrative from your data to gain leadership support for your initiatives.

This update will only apply to Engagement surveys launched after 14th November 2022, and will not be applied retroactively to previous surveys and their comments.

Learn more about comment analysis here.

We’re now releasing our benchmark data more frequently, so you can contextualize your results using the most recent benchmark data available for your industry / regions.

You’ll now be able to compare against the 12 months to June 2022, rather than the 12 months to Dec 2021, so you can be confident you’re using benchmark data that captures changes to engagement in the first half of each year.

Within the platform, updated benchmarks will have the suffix “2022, June Update” (e.g. “New Tech 2022, June Update”). Superseded benchmarks will be kept in the platform in case they are still required by some customers. The process to add a benchmark comparison to a survey remains the same.

Learn more about benchmarks here.

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Shoutouts is our new real-time recognition tool that helps celebrate, socialize and reinforce behaviors to intentionally shape culture and drive employee retention. It helps:

If you’d like to be one of the first to try it, register your interest.

Employees who don’t feel they have access to Learning and Development are 41% more likely to leave. But it’s often tricky to gain meaningful data from development programs. With new Develop reporting, you can:

Use this reporting to easily understand and improve development programs to maximize talent, increase retention, and future-proof your business. Learn more.

You can now customize the Core Skills your employees can choose to develop in the development planning workflow. Use a simple admin interface to create, edit and delete Core Skills and groups. This helps you create a unique experience where employees are developing what’s most relevant and impactful for your organization. Learn more.

Note: If you do not wish to customize the Core Skills, you can use the default options provided by our People Science team.

Increase development plan completion rates with a smoother, faster development planning workflow. Using customer feedback, we’ve both consolidated and removed steps within the Know Yourself and Build Your Plan experiences.

Delete a closed plan if needed, automatically deleting the goals associated with it.

Learn more about getting started with Develop here.

Peer feedback and upward feedback are now available separately to include in a performance review cycle. You can build a performance review process that is custom to your culture, easily determining the types of feedback to include, now with the flexibility to include one type of feedback, both types of feedback, or neither when scheduling a cycle, along with the manager review. Learn more about setting up performance cycles.

Calibration views now have a toggle that allows users to maximize the width of the screen. The full-screen mode means users can add in more relevant data points as columns and spend less time scrolling during their calibration discussions. Learn more about calibrations.

The explanation, “will be visible to [name of direct report],” has been added to the self-reflection comment box to provide clarity, so managers know their comments will be immediately available to their direct reports. This will help avoid confusion for managers who are unsure whether to comment or not. Learn more.

Report viewers can now view Heatmaps in either red and green or blue and yellow color schemes, ensuring this popular analysis tool is equally accessible for all.

The accessibility enhancements to our heatmaps were made in September 2022 and apply to all new and historical survey reports. Learn more.

Our new Welcome Page helps improve survey completion rates by helping you to:

The redesigned survey welcome page is available for all new surveys created from September 2022 onwards. Learn more.

Surveys are more likely to be successful when there is broad buy-in from stakeholders across your business. Generating this buy-in often starts with collaboration on survey design. We’ve added the ability to export all your survey questions to Microsoft Excel, so you can:

You’ll be able to export survey questions from the survey design landing page and the survey designer interface from October 2022 onwards. Learn more.

With Culture Amp, anyone can now easily see their personal, departmental, and business goals in a clear hierarchy view, also known as a goal tree. Learn more.

This new way to visualize goals helps to:

Our People Scientists recommend employees coordinate personal goals with team or company goals to improve organizational alignment. To make it easier to mirror wording between goals, we’ve built a copy feature that duplicates existing goals. Learn more.

Goals now remembers your filters in and between visits so you’ll be able to pick up right where you left off next time you work on your goals.

With rich text formatting in your 1-on-1 agenda, you can now bold, underline or italic text to draw attention to the most important items. You can also link to external documents directly from an agenda item, ensuring you have everything you need for a successful meeting in one place. Learn more about 1-on-1s.

Save time keeping data up-to-date with our new native integrations with Ceridian and Paylocity. Learn more about our integrations.

We’re excited to introduce Develop by Culture Amp, our new employee development solution built for the future.

Develop and retain your people with the only effective solution for personalized, continuous growth. You’ll have all the data and tools you need to supercharge the employee experience – all in one easy, scalable platform. Develop will enable you to:

Learn more about getting started with Develop here.

Development plans are often spread across multiple documents, which means there’s no clear way to track the success of development planning. Culture Amp is changing this. With Develop, admins can easily measure the impact of the development planning process on employees’ attitudes toward their professional growth.

A live in-platform insights dashboard shows you data for employee development confidence and long-term job clarity. With this simple-to-use dashboard, you don’t need to be a data analyst to quickly understand how employees are engaging in the development planning process across your company.

Our 2022 Benchmarks have been released! You can now access 1700+ benchmarks as direct comparisons in the Culture Amp platform. They provide valuable insights into the cultures of top-performing organizations in your sector, region and more, so you can contextualize your own results and set meaningful Engagement goals for the future.

You can also see key insights and takeaways across all our benchmarks here.

Survey capture touches all your employees so we’ve improved the experience by making the Welcome Page more visually appealing. Also, for customers with Skills Coach enabled, your employees will be prompted to explore the Skills Coach course “Essential Productivity” on the Thank You page that is displayed at survey completion.

Survey Data Analyst role description and permissions have been updated to ensure analysts have exclusive permission to download data for any survey where raw data extract (RDE) is enabled, regardless of whether they have other permissions at the survey level.

Learn more about roles and access permissions.

Calibrations are the key to equitable performance reviews. We’ve made them easier to run with the ability to take notes directly within Calibrations for precise record keeping of decisions made. We’ve also added pre- and post-assessment ratings to improve the transparency of your calibration process.

More to come on Calibrations in the second half of 2022.

Learn more about calibrations here.

Managers can easily access their direct reports’ goals via the menu bar. The new ”Direct Reports” goal tab is visible to all managers with direct reports.

Learn more about goals.

We’ve made 1-on-1s easier to use with rich text editing in shared notes and the ability to edit 1-on-1 dates. Reminder emails will now be sent on weekdays only to make it easier to keep on top of your schedule.

We’ll be continuing to make improvements to 1-on-1s throughout the rest of 2022.

Learn more about 1-on-1 conversations here.

Save time keeping employee data up-to-date with our new native integration with HiBob. We’ve also added more guidance and tooltips on the ‘Import Your Data’ tile on the homepage to ensure your data sync is working correctly.

We’ve made Discover Tiles smarter by surfacing those most relevant to where you’re at in your Culture Amp journey

If you’re logging into the platform for the very first time, you’ll be presented with the “Get the most out of Culture Amp” (Culture Amp Training) tile. Or, if you’ve recently closed a survey, you’ll be presented with the “Get expert advice on understanding your survey results” tile.

Grow and retain your people with the only personalized solution for effective, continuous development. Backed by rigorous people science, Develop by Culture Amp makes professional growth measurable, scalable, and easy. Gain key L&D data to plan initiatives and demonstrate impact. And empower managers and employees to have productive conversations and define clear, motivating growth plans.

Empower managers and employees to define clear, personalized development plans that align employees’ motivators and goals with business needs. Employees can identify education, exposure, and experience that genuinely develop and motivate. Simple, science-backed flows help everyone enjoy an equal, fair development planning experience.

Provide managers and employees easy access to the development plan, making it simple to revisit and adapt. Plus, new managers can quickly review employees’ plans to keep growth goals on track.

Prioritize development initiatives and show positive impact with a consolidated view of development activities, effectiveness, and needs – all in one central dashboard.*

Encourage continuous growth and motivation with development goals employees can set and update right on the platform. Plus, celebrate progress in Performance reviews, enhancing performance discussions and informing talent decisions.

Help managers and employees have high-quality growth conversations with their direct reports. Built directly into the tool, key advice from our people scientists supports them throughout the development process.

We’ve made a whole host of updates to streamline the calibration experience for everyone involved and save you precious time. Learn more about calibrations here.

Updates include:

Customers can now review their entire performance cycle during the set-up process. You’ll be able to preview and edit questions, as well as review the schedule and communications timeline. Learn more about launching a performance review cycle.

All of our performance customers will now find guidance embedded directly in the platform as they set up their performance review cycles. Created by our expert people science team, you’ll save time and reduce errors with these best practice tips available at your fingertips.

In the first of many updates we’ll be releasing this year to make 1-on-1s more flexible, managers and direct reports can now reorder agenda items. Learn more about 1-on-1 conversations.

We now offer a native integration with Gusto and a streamlined SFTP integration with TriNet. We’ve also added more in-product guidance and tooltips to the 'import your data' tile on the homepage, which will guide you through the process to ensure your data sync is working correctly. These updates will not only save you time and effort, but they will also help to ensure that you have the highest quality data powering all your employee experience insights in our platform.

For Engage customers, we now offer best practice advice embedded directly in the product to guide you through the survey design process. With this guidance from our People Science team at your fingertips, you can be confident that you’ll always have accurate and actionable data to inform your decision-making around the entire employee experience.

We’re aware that some customers take screenshots of the various Engage reporting visualizations we offer. We aim to make this much quicker and easier for you by enabling the export of Participation and Trend charts, Likert scales, Heatmaps, and Comment Themes. You can download these visualizations directly from a report, or simply copy and paste them into a document or presentation in just two clicks.

Previously, when you went to export comments to csv, the platform would apply the demographic filters, but not the filters around the question, topic, or sentiment. We’ve now fixed this so that you can export comments to csv and have the export respect all the filters you might apply.

New courses include Essential Productivity & Leading Change, with skills broken down into bite-sized chunks that seamlessly integrate into the flow of work. Learn more about Skills Coach.

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