We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new Continuous Feedback feature. With this, individuals, managers, and leaders can share and receive feedback anytime — no need to wait for annual reviews.

Two Flexible Ways to Share Feedback:

• Give Feedback: Voluntarily share recognition or suggestions with anyone in the organization, using clear templates to make your message impactful.

• Request Feedback: Managers can request feedback for their team members from colleagues, and admins can extend requests for anyone, from anyone, across the organization.

Refine Your Feedback with Nova AI: To help everyone communicate clearly and confidently, we’ve added Rewrite with Nova AI. This feature allows you to:

• Rephrase your feedback
• Adjust the length
• Refine tone and clarity

Control Who Sees It: When feedback is shared, visibility settings put you in control. You can choose:

• Private: Only the recipient sees it.
• Private + Manager: Both the recipient and their manager can view it.
• Manager Only: Only the manager sees it — ideal for developmental coaching.

Smart Notifications and Smooth Workflows: Smart reminders and homepage actions guide everyone through the process. Providers are notified when they’re selected for feedback, and submitters and managers are kept updated automatically.

A Better Feedback Profile Experience: Profiles now include four sections to help you manage all your feedback:

• Feedback Received
• Feedback Given
• Pending Feedback Requests
• Requests Sent

Visiting Someone’s Profile:

• See Feedback Received — only what you’re allowed to view.
• Managers and skip-level managers can see more, depending on visibility settings.
• All other employees see only the feedback they have personally given.

Go ahead and give someone feedback, request feedback for your team, explore your new feedback profile, and use Rewrite with Nova AI to refine your message. Together, let’s build a culture where feedback is frequent, thoughtful, and forward-looking.

We’re here with an update to help make your One-on-One meetings clearer and more effective.

• What Was the Issue?

Previously, the progress bar and status text in the Goals View could overlap, making it harder to track goal progress during One-on-One meetings.

• What’s Improved?

With this update, the Goals View now includes:

1. Improved Layout: A cleaner, more organized design to eliminate overlapping text.
2. Enhanced Visibility: Clearer progress bars and status indicators for quick goal updates.
3. Better Navigation: A more intuitive interface for tracking goals during discussions.

• Key Benefit:

This improvement makes it easier to follow goal progress at a glance, keep conversations focused and productive, and help your team stay aligned on priorities.

We’re pleased to announce a major upgrade to our Gen AI chatbot — Nova!

What’s New?

• Streamlined Entry Points:

You can now initiate a Nova conversation directly from multiple locations. These flexible entry points let you start a new chat with Nova wherever you need support.

1. Goals Module → Goals Dropdown
2. Define & Approve Goals Module → Goals Dropdown.

• Global Access Across the Platform:

Nova is now accessible globally across the product through the Nova bubble.

Note: Once you start at least one conversation, you can reopen Nova anytime from the bubble and continue right where you left off.

• Resume Previous Conversations:

Pick up your most recent chat instantly by clicking the Nova icon. No need to restart — stay in flow with full context preserved.

• Enhanced Chat Capabilities:

Nova’s upgraded experience includes several new features!

1. Start New Conversations: Begin a new chat anytime from the chat window.
2. Organize with Names: Rename chats to keep them organized.
3. Access Support: Contact Peoplebox Support directly through Nova.
4. Conversation History: Revisit and continue past chats anytime.
5. Move the Window: Drag the Nova window around your screen.
6. Smart Resume: Close and reopen Nova with full context saved.
7. Regenerate Responses: Instantly regenerate AI replies if needed.
8. Quick Copy: Copy responses with one click.
9. Give Feedback: Like or dislike replies to help us improve Nova.

⚠️ Important: Simplified Support Access!

The Support bubble has been moved from the bottom right corner to Profile Settings for easy access. You can also reach Support directly through the Nova chatbot whenever you need help.

We’re pleased to roll out key improvements to the Goal Submission and Approval Workflow—making collaboration between managers and reviewees clearer, faster, and more structured.

• For Managers – Streamline Goal Reviews:

You can now provide actionable feedback and guide goal revisions more effectively with:

1. Request Changes with Comments: Ask for updates with clear context.
2. Approve Goals with Feedback: Leave comments before approving.
3. View Comment History: Track all past feedback in one place.
4. New ‘Request Changes’ CTA: Easy to initiate edits from your side.

• For Reviewees – Clarity and Flexibility in One Place:

Understand feedback clearly and make updates seamlessly:

1. See Manager Feedback Instantly: From tasks or notifications.
2. Access Comment History: All past inputs available in a side drawer.
3. Edit and Resubmit Goals: Update titles, descriptions, or cycles and resubmit anytime.

• A More Transparent Approval Loop:

We’ve made the feedback cycle iterative, so alignment is easier: Submit → Review → Revise → Re-submit → Final Approval

This process continues until goals are fully aligned and approved, supporting more thoughtful and collaborative planning.

We’ve introduced a major enhancement to the experience of assigning Goal Owners and adding people to goals. It’s now faster, clearer, and more intuitive to select the right individuals.

• What’s New?

Previously, dropdowns only displayed employee names. With this update, you’ll now see:

1. Name along with Department
2. Email Address
3. Profile Avatar

These changes apply to:

1. Selecting a Goal Owner
2. Adding People to Goals

• Why This Matters?

1. Quickly distinguish between employees with similar names.
2. Search more effectively by name, department, or email.
3. Make fewer errors when assigning responsibilities.

We’re pleased to announce an update to phase statuses in review cycles. This enhancement improves visibility, streamlines progress tracking, and ensures that actions are available only at the appropriate stage—enabling more efficient and accurate review management.

• What’s New?

We’ve refined the logic behind phase statuses to better reflect their actual state. Here’s how each status works:

1. Not Started: Indicates that the phase has not been launched or automated. Progress is at 0%.
2. Ongoing: Shows that the phase has either been launched manually or through automation and is currently in progress.
3. Completed: Marks that the phase has reached 100% progress.
4. Ended: Displays when the phase or review has been manually ended.

• Key Functional Change?

Once a phase is marked as Completed or Ended, the Launch and Notify actions will be disabled. This change helps avoid accidental or repeated triggers.

We’re excited to announce the launch of a powerful new capability in Nova AI — users can now create individual goals directly in chat with the help of generative AI.

What’s New?

Gen AI to Create Goals is an intelligent, prompt-based system that enables employees to generate goals using personalized inputs, historical data, role-based insights, and real-time goal status.

Key Capabilities:

• Smart Prompt-Based Goal Creation:

1. Create goals with my inputs: Use your own criteria to create goals focused on personal development or team impact.
2. Create goals based on my previous goals: Reuse or reframe past goals from previous cycles, like "Create goals using my Q2 2023 goals."
3. Create goals based on my role: Let Nova generate goals aligned with your role, department, and competencies.
4. Summarize my active goals that are at risk: Get a snapshot of goals that are near deadlines or marked as "At Risk" in the current cycle.

• Natural Conversations & Context Awareness: Nova supports casual, natural language inputs and remembers your last four interactions to provide contextually relevant suggestions. You can check in about your goals or even follow up on past queries with ease.

• Role-Based Access & Security:

1. All employees can use Nova to manage their own goals.
2. Admins can access organization-wide goal summaries but not individual employee goal content.
3. Non-admin users cannot access others’ goals — Nova will redirect the query back to their own goals.

• Personalization & Conversation History: Users can:

1. Rename past conversations for clarity.
2. Switch between conversations (except during response generation).
3. Copy any query or response.
4. Like or dislike Nova's responses to improve performance over time.

Error Handling & Prompt Safeguards:

1. If an error occurs during goal generation, users can regenerate the response.
2. Nova includes prompt hijacking protection and automatically redirects conversations back to goal-related discussions when irrelevant inputs are detected.

Additional Prompts You Can Try: Here are some bonus commands to explore:

1. “Create goals for me”
2. “Create goals using my active goals”
3. “Create goals using my upcoming goals”
4. “List out my goals”
5. “Create goals for a specific reason”

Company-Level Goal Alignment:

Nova AI can generate more aligned and relevant goals if company objectives are available. To set this up:

1. Navigate to Nova AI Settings > Goals AI Module > Set up your context.
2. Fill in your company’s context details for smarter, aligned goal suggestions.
3. You can revisit and update this information anytime.

Admin Setup: Admins need to enable the Goals AI toggle in the Nova AI Settings page to grant access to this feature for all employees.

Data Privacy & Security: Your data is private. Nova AI does not use your conversations for training and ensures that all interactions are secure and confidential.

We’re introducing new enhancements to the Admin Growth Path Competency module. These updates are designed to streamline how admins manage teams, positions, and competency mappings—making the process more efficient and easier to navigate.

What’s New?

1. CSV Upload for Team-Level Competency Mapping: Admins can now map positions to competencies at the team level using a CSV upload. This enables quick, bulk onboarding and updates.

2. UI-Based Team Creation and Editing: Team creation and editing are now fully supported through the UI—no need to rely solely on CSV uploads. This simplifies team management and reduces manual effort.

3. Redesigned Track and Position Listings: The updated interface provides a cleaner, more user-friendly view of IDP tracks and positions under each team. Smart filters help you quickly locate what you need by competencies or matrices.

4. Detailed Position View with Competency Breakdown: You can now drill down into any position to view all associated competencies—giving a complete view of each role's expectations and structure.

5. Smarter Filters and Usability Improvements: Improved layout, enhanced filtering, and better organization help you navigate matrices and competencies with ease.

6. CSV Download for Competency Data: Easily export competency mappings and matrices in CSV format for convenient review, sharing, and offline editing.

We’re excited to announce a major enhancement to progress tracking—progress bar counts are now calculated and displayed more accurately across each review phase for improved clarity and control.

What’s Changed?

• Phase-Specific Count Display: Progress bars now show the number of participants responsible for completing actions—rather than just the reviewee counts across all phases.

• Phase-Wise Logic:

1. Goal Selection (by Reviewee): Displays the reviewee count. Example: “4/10 reviewees have submitted their goals”.
2. Goal Approval / Peer Approval: Displays the manager count. Example: “3/5 managers have approved goals for all their direct reports”.
3. Manager Summary: Shows the number of managers who are reviewers. Example: “2/5 managers have completed reviews for all their direct reports.”
4. Peer Reviews: Displays the unique peer reviewer count. Example: “8/12 reviewers have submitted all assigned peer reviews”.
5. Direct Report Reviews: Displays the count of direct report reviewers. Example: “4/6 direct report reviewers have submitted reviews for their manager”.
6. Write Review (Nested Phase): Displays unique reviewers across all sub-phases. Example: “5/8 reviewers have completed all their reviews”.
7. Release Review: Continues to show the reviewee count. Example: “Reviews released for 6/10 reviewees”.

• New Tooltips on Progress Bars: Hover over any progress bar to see exactly what’s being tracked—whether it's reviewees, managers, or reviewers.

We’re excited to share a major enhancement to our product—you can now complete performance reviews, select peers, and approve peer selections directly from your mobile device.

Write Performance Reviews On-the-Go!

• What's New?

1. Full mobile support for writing reviews. Previously available only on desktop, now optimized for mobile.
2. Mobile-responsive homepage and review submission pages.

• Mobile-Supported Review Screens:

1. Login Screen
2. Dashboard/Homepage
3. Write Self Review
4. Write Peer Review
5. Write Direct Report Review
6. Write Manager Review

Peer Selection & Approval on Mobile!

• What’s New?

1. Users can now select peers to review.
2. Managers can approve peer selections.
3. Managers can select peers for their direct reports.

• Mobile-Supported Peer Features:

1. Peer Selection
2. Peer Approval
3. Manager-led Peer Selection