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Easy Team Performance

Rypple ~ June 28th, 2010

Better feedback = better performance

Rypple is social software that helps you drive team performance by making continuous feedback easy. We make feedback useful because it’s directly associated with your goals and actions. With Rypple, teams have clearer visibility into goals and actions, they learn and adapt faster, and they feel fulfilled at work. When you’re team is more transparent, happier and agile, they’ll deliver.

Performance without performance reviews!

Because with Rypple you track and capture activities and feedback as you go, you really don’t need performance review software anymore. Of course, if you already have a process in place and don’t want to make such a drastic change just yet, Rypple is a natural complement to traditional reviews that requires very little effort to plug in.

Really, it works

We consistently hear about the pains managers at companies of all shapes and sizes feel as they strive to keep their teams motivated, aligned and focused. They want a consistent way to encourage productive behaviors, keep their teams engaged, and catch potential issues quickly. No matter how you cut it, traditional approaches don’t solve the problem. Performance reviews are painful, and managers have trouble organizing the timely feedback their teams want because they use so many disjoint tools, including email, spreadsheets, paper notes, and “walls of fame.”

It’s what top managers do

Rypple amplifies what top managers already do: meet face-to-face, recognize achievements and get insights from people they trust. We uniquely combine these important forms of feedback into a single, immediately useful view that helps teams deliver higher quality work more efficiently.

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360 Feedback

Rypple ~ June 22nd, 2010
  • Improve peer reviews with 360 feedback
  • Compliments your performance management system
  • Understand your strengths and weaknesses with 360 feedback
  • Personal and organizational development
  • Employee growth and development

What is 360 feedback?

360 feedback, or multirater feedback, is important as part of a performance management system. Feedback is provided by colleagues, mentors and managers – and also includes self-assessment (hence the name 360, as in the degrees in the circle all the way around the employee).

The Need for 360 feedback

The results from 360 feedback are very helpful for professional development and improvement. Employees have a need for 360 feedback, but aren’t sure of how to get it or of what specific people will say. Managers and leaders within organizations use 360 feedback method to get a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

Rypple is the easiest way to get quick feedback from everyone around you. Rypple’s anonymous feedback sets your worries at ease. Research has suggested that 360 feedback and performance reviews get different outcomes and that both should be used in evaluating overall performance. 360 feedback with Rypple is direct, honest and private.

360 feedback with Rypple

  • Easy, fast peer reviews. Managers can easily get feedback from a report’s colleagues.
  • Improving Performance. Use the simple feedback tool to get feedback from the people all around you. Reveal personal blind spots and drive your professional performance.
  • Communication. Constant communication between teams and colleagues is important. Open communication lets everyone express their ideas and suggestions.
  • Anonymity. Give and get direct and honest feedback using Rypple. Anonymity unlocks honesty.
  • Public Recognition. Giving and receiving public kudos is another factor of Rypple that can be used to improve your performance.
  • It’s Easy! Rypple is easy to set up and easy to use. Get feedback with simplicity for a more direct approach – no complex surveys or forms to fill out.

Get Started with Rypple

Rypple is easy: ask a question to your whole team, get immediate results. Rypple is a simple way to improve faster in your business with ongoing 360 feedback. Join leading business thinkers like Marshall Goldsmith, Steven Miles and Don Tapscott. Sign up for Rypple today.

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What’s new this week: Dec 21st

Nathaniel Rottenberg ~ December 21st, 2009

This week brings the ability to followup on a piece of feedback as many times as you want and to filter your feed to show only unanswered feedback requests.

Feedback Followup

What do you do if a piece of feedback is unclear? Maybe you’d like someone to elaborate on their advice? Only one problem: anonymous feedback makes following up a little difficult. Not any more! You can now followup on a piece of feedback as many times as you like: clarify what you didn’t understand, ask for more suggestions, or even just say thank you. Don’t worry! It’s still completely anonymous. Check out the exchange below in which I asked for feedback, received a response, and then followed up for more info. The identity of my adviser is never revealed.

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Filter Your Feed

Your feed contains the feedback you’ve received and the questions you’ve asked. When you’re taking a minute to respond to feedback requests, you can filter your feed to only show the unanswered requests. This is a great way to help you respond to all your colleagues requests. Use the Give filter in your feed, then sort by Unanswered to see them bubble to the top.

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Stay tuned for next weeks notes. Same bat channel, same bat time!

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Help Us Improve the Rypple Blog

Jordan Satok ~ November 11th, 2009

At Rypple, we’re constantly striving to improve. The Rypple Blog has been something both Nathaniel and I have been focusing on recently, and we want to know what you think we can do to improve. I’ve created a Rypple Feedback Box that you can use to help us improve.

As always, your feedback is completely anonymous, so please be honest with your feedback!

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Improve your site by giving visitors a voice

Jesse Goldman ~ November 5th, 2009

I heard a great interview today on the radio. It was with Warren Berger about his new book Glimmer. The book is about design, specifically the impact design has on everything we do. Berger emphasized that good design is an iterative process – constantly evolving your ideas by getting feedback from colleagues and other consumers of your work.

There is an exciting application to creating the optimal site experience in the online world, and probably an obvious one to many designers – in order to remain at the forefront, it’s critical to constantly evolve and update our sites to continue engaging loyal visitors and generate new traffic.

But how do we get the most accurate picture of what our audience wants? Looking beyond site analytics and third party reviews, is there a way to engage visitors directly, not measuring them by the number of clicks, downloads or time on site, but instead by listening to what they have to say?

What if we just ask them?

“Tell me one thing I can do to improve my site for the next time you visit?”

“What topics should I write about?”

“How did you hear about our site and would you tell a friend? Why/why not?”

etc…

Make it easy for your visitors to share their thoughts and you’ll get a great complement to site analytics and the other input you may get.  One idea is to give people a simple feedback box on your site where they can share with you – make it anonymous to encourage participation (some people may be turned off if their comments are made public).

Designing, and re-designing your site experience based on ongoing feedback from the people who actually use it could be a great way to efficiently grow engagement and loyalty.

Note: the radio show was on Toronto’s Classical 96.3FM.

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Business Development

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