Deb Muller founded HR Acuity after a 20-year career in HR.
Based in Florham Park, N.J, the company’s platform helps employers manage their
employee relations and investigations using a framework of proprietary tools
and processes. We spoke with Deb about the company’s history and why she
believes a disciplined approach to employee relations...
Qualtrics launched Frontline Feedback, a tool that enables customer-facing
employees to share customer comments as well as their own observations about products
and services. Although the feature’s part of the CustomerXM suite, Qualtrics touts
its ability to engage employees by including them in discussions of customer
experience.
Qualtrics calls Frontline Feedback a collaboration tool...
Betterworks released Calibration and Feedback Summary, two
new features for its continuous performance management software suite.
The additions are meant to expand the capabilities of Betterworks’ solution by performance management solution by increasing visibility into employee performance and potential while simplifying the process for preparing for and conducting calibration discussions.
CEO...
Performance management solutions provider 15Five added an
educational component to its lineup by rolling out the Best-Self Academy. The
new platform is designed to help managers develop their skills to measure and
improve performance, as well as communicate effectively.
The academy provides training materials on what it calls the “key lessons” managers need...
Assessment platform OutMatch introduced several enhancements
to tailor its experience according to the local language and cultural needs of
its users.
The company said the enhancements bring OutMatch into compliance
with the latest WCAG requirements, keeps it abreast of GDPR needs and improve
native-language detection. (WCAG, or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, are
published by the...
Phenom People and learning platform Docebo will integrate their
so that customers can better identify skills gaps using Phenom AI, then automate
delivery of training content to employees.
The companies said that although 70 percent of talent professionals say their company identifies or plans to identify employee skills gaps, only 37 percent...
Reward Gateway launched an
analytics engine as a part of its employee engagement platform. Called SmartInsights,
the package provides HR departments with intelligence on overall employee engagement,
recognition activity, benefit uptake and social
responses.
The company said SmartInsights uses a highly visual set of dashboards to make data digestable to HR leaders and...
Performance management platform Betterworks acquired
Hyphen, a San Francisco-based company that provides tools for employee
listening and engagement. Terms weren’t disclosed.
By combining its performance management solutions
with Hyphen’s listening capabilities, Betterworks said it’s melding business
and HR processes that have traditionally been separate. The result will be “an integrated,
data-driven continuous approach to both...
Employee communications platform SocialChorus is launching new integrations with Microsoft Office 365, including capabilities for Microsoft Teams.
The new tools allow users of SocialChorus Studio to distribute information across three Microsoft products—Outlook, Sharepoint and Teams. The product provides a central point of publishing that allows users to target and re-target...
Glint and BetterUp each launched features
that emphasize personalization as a way to provide employees with a more
engaging development experience. For Glint, it’s about feedback. For BetterUp,
it’s about coaching.
Glint, owned by LinkedIn, announced Glint 360s. Designed to work with the company’s Engage and Perform tools, the product helps users create...