Five tools, each one small on purpose
ManagerCheckIns covers the people work a manager does alongside a real job: talking, goals, reviews, thanks and listening.
1:1s
A shared agenda for every pair. Both people add talking points, tick them off and keep notes together. Each also has a private note nobody else can read. Follow-ups stay open until someone closes them.
Carried over to Nov 27
Covering support on Friday afternoons
Draft the Friday coverage rota
Goals
Set company goals, and let people line theirs up underneath. Check in with a number, a status and a sentence. The history stays, so review time is not a memory test.
Reviews
Self review, manager review and, if you want, a few peers. Start from a question set (quarterly, annual, start-stop-continue, rated skills, new hire) and edit any question. The manager sees the self review beside their own, and decides when to share.
Maya’s self review
I ran the vendor renewal from start to finish.
Your review
It was hers from the first call.
Praise
A feed where anyone can thank anyone, tagged with one of your company values if you like. Connect Slack or Google Chat and each one is posted to a channel too.
You caught the contract date before anyone else did. Thank you.
Anytime feedback
Ask a few teammates for feedback on your work, or on a report’s, between review cycles. Or give it unprompted. Only the person, their manager and admins can read it, and you can keep it to the manager.
The launch plan was clear and you kept everyone posted. Next time loop in support a week earlier.
Pulse surveys
A few questions, anonymous, with eNPS. Results stay hidden until three people have answered, and comments are shuffled.
2 of 3 responses
What ManagerCheckIns doesn’t do
Better to know now than after you sign up.
- PayrollWe don’t pay anyone or track hours.
- HRISNo employee files, time off or onboarding paperwork. You can paste in your staff list to invite everyone at once.
- Compensation planningNo pay bands, raise budgets or equity tracking.
- AI writingNo generated reviews or summaries. You write them.
- Companies over 60 peopleThe Team plan stops at 60. Email us if you outgrow it.