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Greetings, StandOut community! 🌷🌼🌹 In today’s fast-paced and often disconnected work environments, many of us are craving something more--meaningful connections that impact not only our professional success, but also our personal well-being.  Building connections at work can lead to positive, productive working relationships in which people feel valued for who they are at their unique best. This is key to building stronger leaders, stronger teams, and stronger culture--which is why Connection is the theme of our next release, happening on April 12th. Please read on below to learn about the research and resources we’ll be introducing to support you in driving a sense of belonging in your organization. 💞 If you’d like to know what’s next for StandOut, please review the Near-Term Roadmap for details on upcoming releases. The next release theme will be Attention. ☀ 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: No time? Here are tips for connecting when you're very VERY busy 😜 It’s not only beneficial for work, but for life too! 🍎 Fostering human connection in a virtual workplace 💻  Release Date: April 12, 2025 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:Power of Teammate Connections ResearchConnection Position PaperNew! Cultivating Connection for Your Team WorkshopEngagement Pulse Benchmark DataEngagement Pulse Leader Results UpdateAdditional Connection Resources ResearchNew resource! Power of Teammate Connections Teammates can make or break your work experience, with significant impacts to engagement, performance, and team morale. In 2024, the StandOut Research Team embarked on a continuation of their journey to better understand the importance of teammates in the day-to-day experiences of people at work. The findings from this project offer empirical evidence that both reiterates the importance of team leaders and celebrates the importance of teammates. The insights gleaned from this work will help leaders to increase their positive impact on their direct reports, and to empower team members who wish to better support their teammates. 👍 The purpose of this general population study was to investigate the unique ways that one’s teammates can add positive value to their experiences at work, both in place of and in addition to the team leader. This study is unique and valuable as it is the first project we know of that focuses specifically and intentionally on the many ways that interactions and relationships with teammates (or, in other words the quality of connection with teammates) effect engagement and the overall experience of work. 💫 Click below to read the full article! PositionsEnhancement: Position Paper: Building Connection through StandOut With this release, we’re updating our Building Connection through StandOut Position Paper, which captures details about how people can use StandOut to build connection — to their own work, to their coworkers, to their team leaders, and to their organization. Defining connection and providing details about specific StandOut products and Platform features, this document is a handy reference for organizations wanting to use StandOut to address the crucial need for connection in the new world of work. You can find the full version here. 📃 Enterprise Content SubscribersNew Offering! Cultivating Connection for your Team We’re pleased to introduce a brand-new workshop exploring research that demonstrates the importance of connection at work. The Cultivating Connections workshop will help team leaders learn to:Understand what connection means at work and why it matters Learn how to adopt a connection mindset Practice strategies for cultivating connection on your team Identify next steps for building connection This 90-minute workshop is available exclusively to Enterprise Content Subscribers, and it may be delivered in-person or virtually by any facilitators in your organization. Facilitators will have access to a recorded walkthrough of the workshop from a facilitator’s point of view, featuring tips and insights about how to deliver it effectively for any audience. Workshop: Cultivating Connection for your Team   ReportingEnhancement: Updated Engagement benchmarks Country & Industry benchmark data in Engagement Pulse Reporting has been updated with 2024 ADP Research Institute findings, including the addition of the following countries: Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Phillipines, Switzerland, Thailand, and Vietnam. Engagement PulseEnhancement: User Experience Updates We’re making some minor updates to the user experience of the Engagement Pulse results page within Leader Tools. You may notice some slight adjustments to the way content on this page is organized as we prepare for great things to come. 😉 Engagement Pulse Leader Results  Other Connection resources in StandOut: If you’re looking for more activities and resources to build connection in your teams, please check out these previously released items! Building Connection through StandOut webinar: Now available!  StandOut research confirms what many have long known intuitively: a sense of connection is one of the most important factors in team engagement.⭐ With this release, you'll have access to the Building Connection through StandOut webinar, which helps HR practitioners understand specific dimensions of connection that contribute to an individual's sense of feeling seen, heard, and valued at work. As StandOut products are designed from the ground up to help organizations build a sense of connection, team by team, this webinar also describes how specific elements of StandOut can address this need. Practitioners will get concrete, practical ideas on how to leverage their existing investment in StandOut to achieve greater impact in their organization.This brief and entertaining webinar is available to anyone interested in learning ways to build connection in an organization.Check it out below!🍦😀         ConversationsMilestone Connect: This Conversation prompts you to discuss recent wins and challenges, set fresh expectations, and re-invigorate the team leader/team member relationship. Role Reflect Conversation: This Conversation helps you understand your colleagues based on their StandOut Roles, and learn better ways of working with them.   Team Activities: Help your team--or any group (they don’t even have to be StandOut users!)--become more cohesive through easy-to-do activities you can complete during a single meeting. Learn more about yourselves, and each other, while boosting team connection. To see how to use this feature, here’s a video from a previous release.       

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you.April 12, 2025Release 25.14Theme — Connection 🤝 Research: The Power of TeammatesAside from the team leader, teammates are the people that team members interact with most frequently. This frequent interaction - and often collaboration - paves the way for relationships that can add to or detract from the overall experience at work. We're sharing our research focused on understanding the value and power of the relationships between teammates and how they shape the team member work experience. Position Paper: ConnectionWe’re re-releasing our Connection Position Paper with updated research on the qualities that make a connection great and how team leaders and team members can foster this within their relationships. Cultivating Team Connections WorkshopEmployees who have strong connections with their coworkers and leaders are more likely to be fully engaged and less likely to leave an organization voluntarily. We're creating brand new content to help you cultivate powerful connections on your teams, including a new 90-minute workshop. Engagement Pulse Benchmark DataEngagement Pulse reporting will be updated with new benchmark data that includes 2024 results. Engagement Pulse User Experience UpdatesWe're making a few minor changes to the Engagement Pulse to improve the user experience and pave the way for future enhancements that are in the works. July 12, 2025Release 25.28Theme — Attention ☀️ Research: Check-Ins in the Real WorldOf course, Check-Ins have already been heavily researched and proven to correlate strongly with engagement at work, and now additional efforts are underway to understand what this ritual looks like, feels like, and sounds like for current StandOut users. Using data collected via self-report questionnaires, focus groups, and interviews, we're further defining the perceived value of Check-Ins from the team leader and team member perspectives and identifying the characteristics of a meaningful Check-In conversation. Check-Ins: Editable Loves and LoathesDelivering on a request we've heard directly from clients, we're updating the Check-In experience to allow your teams to add/edit Loves & Loathes throughout the current Check-In week. With this update, we’ll set the Loves & Loathes section to be editable (just as the other sections of the Check-In are currently). If an update is made, a notification will be sent to the team leaders. Check-Ins: Private Notes for Team LeadersWe’ve heard you! You want a refreshed Check-In experience, and specifically one that would enable taking notes to prepare for your Check-In conversations. Additionally, we recognize that dynamic and static team leaders have a need to collaborate on a Check-In and highlight the most urgent needs for the week. A new field will be added to the Check-In to enable this, and will only be visible to the static and dynamic team leaders of an individual. Check-Ins: Rotating QuestionsWe're freshening up the Check-In experience by adding a new and engaging optional question each week to trigger consistently meaningful conversations between your employees and their team leaders. StandOut Platform New Language TranslationsIn addition to our existing platform translations options, we’re adding the following this cycle: English (UK, Australia, Canada), Dutch, Hindi, Romanian, Spanish (International, Mexico). Fall 2025Release 25.XXTheme — Engagement ✨ Research: Trickle-Down Effects of Engagement Pulse ConstructsIn partnership with the ADP Research Institute, we're conducting research to better understand whether there is a correlation between engagement values of senior leaders within an organization and their full employee base.  StandOut FoundationsContent Subscribers will have access to new content and resources to support your organizations understanding and adoption of the foundational elements of StandOut.  More to come soon! Engagement Pulse IntelligenceWe’re very excited to be combine the power of Engagement Groups and Coaching Intelligence in order to provide meaningful insights and guidance for team leaders! With this new feature, team leaders with a closed Engagement Pulse and 3 or more responders will see customized and actionable guidance on how to proceed with positively impacting their teams’ engagement levels.

Hello, StandOut friends! Welcome to the first StandOut release of the year, with a refreshed release experience coming your way! We’re making a shift to deliver releases now organized by theme. All updates, enhancements, and newly released content will align to a work-related topic, making it easier to understand and apply our updates in a cohesive and impactful way. Our goal is to help you drive positive change and empower your organizations with stronger, more intentional updates. The theme of our first release of the year, available on February 15th, is Career.  Please read on to see all that we have planned! Curious to know what’s next for StandOut? Stay tuned for our next release--the theme will be Connection. The Near-Term Roadmap always has the latest details. 🚘 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: We’re pleased to introduce a new series on the StandOut Community called Real Stories, capturing the experiences of StandOut leaders, teams, and the organizations they serve. Check out how Sun Community is leveraging StandOut to craft meaningful careers here. ☀  A career or happiness--what would you choose? 😀 What employees want 🌱 Upskilling for career growth 🏫 Speaking of career growth, all 2025 StandOut public certification offerings are now posted here if you’re looking to enhance your knowledge and application of strengths. 💪 Will you be joining us at ADP's Meeting of the Minds 2025? If so, please look 👀 for a career-themed presentation from Standout’s Director of Leader Development, Crystal Simon: Career: Where Talent Meets Performance. 💫  Release Date: February 15, 2025 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:Career Growth ResearchCareer Position PaperNew! StandOut Enterprise Content SubscriptionEquipped Animated SeriesCareer Discovery ConversationCareer-Themed CoachingCheck-In EnhancementAssessment UpdatesStandOut Font UpdatePrivacy Policy Update ResearchNew resource! Career Growth Study Career growth is a highly individualized concept that can look like different things to different people, depending on your career path, goals, interests, and opportunities that are available to you, among other factors. In support of this career-themed release, we thought it would be helpful to first dig into what the term “career” really means and how leaders and HR practitioners can facilitate career development with their teams. To achieve this, the StandOut Research Team recently launched a data collection effort to learn what career growth means to workers, what people are looking for to grow in their careers, what motivates them, and the roles that strengths, team leader attention, and career advocacy play in the broader career landscape. With data analyzed from the perspectives of both the employees and an organization hoping to take action on the study’s results, the findings of this research serve as a call to action for leaders to recognize and appreciate the personal and individualized nature of each person’s career journey, while also highlighting the importance of examining personal needs and aspirations related to career development. Read the full study here! 🚀 PositionsNew resource! StandOut Position Paper: Careers We’re releasing a new Position Paper that captures StandOut’s research on career growth and all the ways that StandOut solutions and strengths coaching approach can help both organizations and individuals explore the topic of careers. Touching on the multiple ways people define career growth for themselves, this Position Paper will describe how StandOut’s strengths-based approach can serve as a powerful tool to help people clarify what matters most to them and how their strengths can help them succeed. Read the new Position Paper here! 📃 New StandOut OfferingNew! StandOut Enterprise Content Subscription We’re kicking off the first release of the year with a major offering: the brand-new enterprise StandOut Content Subscription, which offers clients a comprehensive suite of learning solutions, including instructor-led workshops, self-paced modules, video content, and more. This subscription will support clients in their efforts to bring a strengths-based culture to their organization through access to 4 key components: a growing library of content, StandOut Strengths technology, an exclusive online community, and service units that may be used throughout the year. ⭐ Content Library: Subscribers will gain access to our growing library of content that helps organizations scale support for people to develop their strengths and maximize their unique contributions. Subscription includes unlimited access to self-print materials and the right to leverage all content across your organization.  The Content Library includes: Access to certifications and workshops (and workshop materials once certified): StandOut Debrief Certification StandOut Team Member StandOut Team Leader Coaching Essentials for Team Leaders New workshops coming in 2025! Access to digital self-paced content, including: Discover StandOut SCORM Equipped animated series (see more about this below)  StandOut Strengths technology: grants users access to the StandOut platform, including the StandOut Assessment, Snapshot, Coaching Channel, and Team Activities. StandOut Online Community: Content Subscribers will be invited to participate in the exclusive Strengths Facilitator Community that provides opportunities for ongoing development and best practices sharing. Service Units: Subscribers will be allocated units to spend on program certifications, StandOut facilitated content, or content activation consulting hours throughout the year. If you’re interested in learning more about how to leverage this exciting new resource in your organization, please reach out to your Client Success partner. Content SubscribersNew resource! Equipped Animated Series This all-new series of short, animated videos is a great asset for organizations looking to tackle the common challenges that arise in career development. Presenting a series of situations to prompt discussion, Equipped will get people thinking about careers through the lens of their strengths. Access to the series is available through the StandOut Content Subscription (see above), and the first 3 episodes will be available to stream on February 15th, with more to come. Don’t miss the teaser video below! 📺✂☕  ConversationsEnhancement: Career Discovery Interactive Conversation To further support StandOut users in having strengths-based, meaningful conversations with their trusted leaders and coworkers, we’re pleased to introduce another new Interactive Conversation. This one is focused on Career Discovery, and it takes users through a series of prompts to explore what matters most in their career growth.  Career Discovery ConversationThe Career Discovery Conversation may be launched by anyone in the organization to reflect on their career growth with their team leader, colleague, or career advocate. Once the Conversation is launched with your intended recipient, you’ll both be invited to reflect on a series of questions. You’ll see an option to mark your responses as private if you’d like, otherwise both parties will be able to see each other’s entries. Once each party responds, you’ll be prompted to review the responses together during a live discussion, supported with a StandOut conversation guide. Whether you’re seeking personal career growth or looking to support others, we encourage you to give this a try to strengthen your future interactions. 💪 Career Discovery Conversation prompts CoachingEnhancement: Career-Themed Coaching  The Career Coaching engagement (which includes three 60-minute sessions over six weeks) supports individuals who want to take a strengths-based approach to developing their careers. With this release, we’re making Career Coaching even more powerful with the addition of new career coaching tools to help people explore the strengths and values they want to focus on as they grow. Coachees will receive guidance and develop career strategies in a 1:1 partnership with a certified StandOut coach, using impactful new career coaching tools — Wheel of Work, Strengths Grid, & Values at Work — to explore the strengths and values they want to focus on as they grow.  StandOut AssessmentEnhancement: Assessment Updates We’ve made some changes to the StandOut Assessment experience based on input we’ve received directly from clients. These changes are intended to improve the overall Assessment accessibility and user experience, and include increasing the question timer from 30 to 45 seconds, options to take the Assessment without the timer feature, and removed voice-over options. 🔕 Check-InsEnhancement: Open Text We’ve enhanced the open text fields within Check-Ins to allow for a better user experience. These fields, found within Loves, Loathes, Needs, and Priorities, will now auto expand for longer text entries, eliminating the need for users to scroll within their entry. 💬 StandOut PlatformEnhancement: Font Update In an effort to maintain a consistent user experience across ADP products, we’ve recently updated the font used throughout the platform. It’s nothing major, but you may notice this subtle change.💐 StandOut PlatformEnhancement: Privacy Policy Update We've updated StandOut’s Privacy Statement to satisfy new requirements to updated privacy laws. We continue to strive to make our information practices easy for you to understand and to clearly communicate the choices you have. We encourage you to review the updated Privacy Statement.  By continuing to use our products and services, you acknowledge receipt and agree to the updated Privacy Statement effective January 31, 2025. Please direct any questions to customerservice@tmbc.com.Note: The English-language version of this policy was updated on January 14. Updates to all other languages policies will be updated on February 15. 

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. February 15, 2025Release 25.07 Research: "Career Growth"We're pleased to deliver new research on the relationships between strengths, engagement, and career growth. Our latest study includes a focus on what people interpret as "career growth", what they believe they need in order to experience it, their primary motivations for it, and how team leaders can best support the career growth needs of team members. ⭐ StandOut Enterprise Content SubscriptionStandOut offers clients a comprehensive suite of learning solutions, including coaching, instructor-led workshops, self-paced modules, videos, and more. With this subscription, subscribers will gain access to our growing library of programs and related content to foster the ongoing support of strengths in their organizations. Additionally, subscribers will have access to newly created content every year. Content Subscribers: New career-themed animated series, "Equipped"Applying a strengths lens can amplify your professional growth in many ways, and we're pleased to deliver new content to help. We'll be releasing additional resources focused on career development, including a brand-new animated series. "Equipped" episodes 1-3 will be available at the time of this release, with more to come! Career ConversationWe're bringing a new interactive Conversation your way that will encourage team members to reflect on their career and engage in growth-focused interactions with their leader, mentor, coach, or peers. Assessment UpdatesWe're making a few minor changes to the StandOut Assessment experience to ensure that it's as smooth as possible, including removing the timer and voice over features and adding new accessibility alerts. April 5, 2025Release 25.14 Research: “The Power of Teammates”Aside from the team leader, teammates are the people that team members interact with most frequently. This frequent interaction - and often collaboration - paves the way for relationships that can add to or detract from the overall experience at work. We're sharing our research focused on understanding the value and power of the relationships between teammates and how they shape the team member work experience.  Content Subscribers: Cultivating Team Connections WorkshopEmployees who have strong connections with their coworkers and leaders are more likely to be fully engaged and less likely to leave an organization voluntarily. We're creating brand new content to help you cultivate powerful connections on your teams, including a new 90-minute workshop. July 12, 2025Release 25.28 Research: “Check-Ins in the Real World”Of course, Check-Ins have already been heavily researched and proven to correlate strongly with engagement at work, and now additional efforts are underway to understand what this ritual looks like, feels like, and sounds like for current StandOut users. Using data collected via self-report questionnaires, focus groups, and interviews, we're further defining the perceived value of Check-Ins from the team leader and team member perspectives and identifying the characteristics of a meaningful Check-In conversation.

Hello, StandOut Community!StandOut release 1NAS 24.40 goes live on October 5th, and we’re pleased to share with you some major updates that will provide you with better visibility into adoption and engagement reporting, plus an update to our deployment process. Please read on below for more information.Curious to know what’s next for StandOut? The Near-Term Roadmap always has the latest details. 🚘 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: Please stop by and say hi! 🖐 Whoa! Disengagement costs the global economy $8.8 trillion! 😧 How to build connection with your team while working remotely. 🏠 Technology is changing the workplace in countless ways. Stay up-to-date on the latest and revolutionize how you lead by joining this complimentary virtual summit.  Release Date: October 5, 2024 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:New! Engagement GroupsStandOut DashboardDeployment Guide ReportingNew! Engagement Groups In our mission 🚀at StandOut to drive team member engagement, we’re committed to providing practitioners with a deep level of visibility into their organization’s engagement data to understand the health of their teams.  We’ve made many enhancements to Engagement Pulse reporting over the past year, and we’re pleased to take it a step further in this release with the introduction of Engagement Groups. Within Engagement Pulse reporting, practitioners will now see an option to view results by group, in addition to the existing views by team, audience, and employee. This new Engagement Group reporting gives practitioners a detailed look into the continuum of engagement in their organization, with people who are fully engaged at one end and people who are not at all engaged at the other. Here’s a video to learn more: Individuals will fall into one of four Engagement Groups: All In Positive Indifferent Not EngagedReport filters may be applied to dig down to a more granular level. This level of reporting is intended to help practitioners to identify and differentiate between the needs of team members in different groups so that they may be moved to higher levels of engagement. Engagement Groups What can you do with this data? Here are some suggested actions to start driving change:Look at the average response to each item for each group. Notice any patterns on specific items in the different groups. These patterns may give you clues about where to focus your attention. Decide in advance which EP items matter most to your organization. If those items are low for a particular group (or groups), start there to reinforce what's most important for your organization's mission, vision, values, etc. If you have no pre-identified items, start with some of the lower scoring items for the Positive group. Think in terms of incremental growth. Meaningful change can happen in a quarter, but lasting change tends to happen slowly, so it's okay if your All In group doesn't double in size overnight. It is realistic to hope for your Positive group to grow as the Indifferent and Not Engaged groups shrink. Small changes along the path can produce great results over time. Know that there's a wide variety in how people assess their own state of mind. Some people may never give the highest level of response. And that's okay. All In is great, but the Positive group is also a good outcome — people can be committed to their work at that level, too. If you focus on increasing the total % of team members in the All In + Positive groups, you will be on the right track.All users with current access to Engagement Reporting will be able to view Engagement Groups. A new “Engagement Pulse by Group” usage report will also be available with this release. The data and charts in this section will be exportable for easy sharing within your organization. And lastly, a “Learn More” button in the upper right corner provides additional details on data calculations, comparisons to other engagement metrics, and suggested actions the user can take. We encourage you to review this new reporting for your organization’s recent Engagement Pulse surveys to see where the groups differ in their item responses. This data may then be used to prioritize your efforts in ways that will make the most difference in moving the needle on engagement. 📈 ReportingEnhancement: StandOut Dashboard We’re pleased to unveil an area of StandOut that has been completely overhauled to bring you more metrics, graphics, and insights at a glance! 👓 Formerly known as the Executive Summary, the new StandOut Dashboard pulls together key metrics in one place to help you understand how your organization is adopting StandOut features. With redesigned card layouts and data visualizations, several brand-new cards, and additional data insights, it provides viewers with a high-level overview of how things are going before they dig deeper into the data found in the rest of StandOut Reporting. This new dashboard can be found right in StandOut Reporting and contains up to 8 cards (dependent on which StandOut features your organization is using) of data, insights, and comparisons:StandOut Dashboard Cards:Check-Ins Engagement Pulse Engagement Groups Assessment Completion Performance Pulse Celebrate Teams Team Activities ConversationsAnd that’s not all--it’s also filterable by audience and by quarter, so you can get right to the data you need. A toggle at the top of the page may be used to compare data with the previous quarter. Within each card you’ll see links to easily navigate to specific reports that are relevant to the card topic. Plus, the Check-In and Engagement Pulse cards contain “View Insights” buttons that provide visibility into even more granular and insightful metrics that capture the positive impact of StandOut at your organization.  StandOut Dashboard The StandOut Dashboard can be exported via the “Share” button at the top of the page to easily send to others in your organization to help them better understand the impact of StandOut and how they can directly drive engagement.  There’s a “Learn More” modal that explains the feature and data calculations in further detail. And administrators can provide others in your organization with direct access to the metrics they need to support StandOut adoption with Audience level access permissions to the dashboard. This new & improved dashboard is intended to reduce practitioner lift in sharing the good news of StandOut adoption throughout their organization, and we can’t wait to hear what you think! Please share which cards are your favorite in the comments below. 💬 We’re especially excited for the new “Celebrate Teams” card, which encourages recognition of teams that are using StandOut well and opportunities to learn from leaders of highly engaged teams. 🎉 AdminEnhancement: Updated Deployment Guidance Clients who are new to StandOut technology will have the ability to get their organization up and running on the platform on their own, thanks to a new Deployment Guide experience that is available with this release. New practitioners will receive access to two Deployment Guides, built right into StandOut Admin:Technical Guide: walks users through the technical setup of StandOut, including adding metadata, filtering users, adding users and teams, and reviewing user login information. Planning Guide: provides practitioners with the resources needed to plan a successful launch of StandOut, including communication templates, videos, training materials, and more.These new guides are intended to reduce client lift and streamline efficiencies so they can deploy as quickly as they’d like. Practitioners will be able to mark steps as “complete” to track their deployment progress, and they may go back and revisit steps at any point in deployment. And as always, clients will still have support from StandOut Client Success to help them with their StandOut strategy and adoption. 💞

Hello StandOut friends!Today’s post concludes our Year in Review series, where we’re looking back at release updates from the past 12 months to catch you up on anything that you may have missed. Part 1 of this series can be found here, and focuses on enhancements and updates intended to help you infuse a strengths culture into your organization. 💪 Part 2 is here, and reviews all the ways that StandOut has brought you new flexibility and automation to meet your organizations unique needs. 🤸 Part 3, found below, shares all the StandOut enhancements that have brought you more visibility into how things are going across your organization. 👀 Please read on below!  As always, you can check out the Near-Term Roadmap for details on what to expect next from StandOut. 🔮 💪 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle:  Don’t miss our new Engagement Pulse Series! Read on to learn more about these survey questions:  In my team, I am surrounded by people who share my values 💞 At work, I clearly understand what is expected of me 👍 I am really enthusiastic about the mission of my company 😁 Employee sentiment dropped this month, see the data and insights here.   📉 Wages & hiring: it’s complicated! 💸  StandOut Year in Review: Giving you better visibility into how it’s going We’re always looking for input from our users to help shape what's next for StandOut, and we’re pleased to have delivered on many client-requested enhancements to reporting this year. See below for recent updates that better support practitioners in their understanding of engagement across teams and the impact of StandOut on your organization.💥 StandOut Insights 📊 One of our most highly anticipated updates of the year was the introduction of StandOut Insights in the October release. This new feature analyzes StandOut data to create meaningful stories about your organization’s engagement journey, available in a ready-made presentation format. These stories can be easily shared with anyone in your organization, offering a simple and effective way to communicate the positive impact of StandOut so that you can do more of what’s working.Please check out the video below to learn more: Engagement Pulse Reporting Enhancements 📈Engagement Pulse Results Sharing: It’s easier than ever to share Engagement Pulse results with your team and other individuals across your organization, thanks to new sharing capabilities delivered in the January release.  A simple click of a button will deliver results to intended recipients via email and in-platform notifications. Leaders have been using this new capability to let their teams preview results prior to their debrief sessions and to share with other leaders and mentors.Here’s a video to learn more: Deactivated Team Engagement Pulse Responses: In December, we updated Engagement Pulse functionality so that members of teams that are deactivated mid-survey may still respond even though their team no longer exists, with their responses rolling up to organization-level reporting.  Supporting users on deactivated teams to have their voices heard will lead to higher response rates, resulting in higher quality data that is more representative of the organization and will better equip leaders to continue moving engagement forward. Engagement Pulse Debrief Tracking: With the October release, we introduced a new survey to measure the actions that team leaders are taking with their Engagement Pulse results. This enhancement was requested by several clients, who are now using the information provided to support their leaders in better supporting their teams. Engagement Pulse Debrief Tracking Engagement Pulse % Response Rate: In an effort to make StandOut reporting feel as easy as possible, we’ve added the % Response Rate to Engagement Pulse reporting--this was previously shown as a fraction only.  Engagement Pulse % Response Rate New Engagement Pulse Results Video: In October, we added a new video linked next to Overall Results on the Engagement Pulse page. This video walks leaders through how Engagement Pulse results are calculated and what they mean, providing helpful context as you consider your team results. Engagement Pulse Results VideoEngagement Pulse Usage Report Update: In March, we added two new data points to the Engagement Pulse Usage Report to support our newest Engagement Pulse reporting metrics and to help organizations better understand what leaders are doing with results: Date Viewed: the date that the Team Leader first viewed their Engagement Pulse results (subsequent views will not impact this date). Date Shared: the date that the Team Leader first shared a set of Engagement Pusle results with either their entire team or any individual (subsequent shares will not impact this date).  Chart Exports In March, we were pleased to deliver on a client-requested enhancement that makes sharing StandOut reporting within your organization even easier with the ability to export reporting charts. Charts from StandOut Reporting and StandOut Admin→ Engagement Pulse can now be exported as a PNG or PDF, so you can easily include them where needed to improve buy-in and make talent decisions. Chart Export capabilities Roll-Up Reporting Enhancements Our April release brought leaders of leaders even better visibility into engagement across their teams with the addition of team-by-team breakdowns of the Roll-Up Reporting metrics found in the Leader Summary. In addition to the aggregate view that shows Engagement Pulse scores and Check-In trends for all team members rolling up to them (their direct team + 1 level below), they can now see these metrics broken out by team, providing them further insights into how things are going. Additionally, there are convenient buttons built right into the reports, allowing leaders to “Request Engagement Pulse Results” from any direct reports who have not yet shared them, and “Nudge Team Leader” to encourage their direct reports to view available Check-Ins for their teams.Engagement Pulse Details CardCheck-In Submissions & Views Card Check-In Reporting Enhancements Our April release also brought StandOut practitioners several enhancements to Check-In Reporting to further support them in driving Check-In adoption throughout their organizations. New tabs were added within the Check-In Reporting section, showing new views of team leader Check-In Views & Attention. This improved visibility into Check-In metrics reduces practitioner lift needed to understand usage and attention across the organization, so you can focus your time less on data sorting and more on sharing out the many benefits of Check-Ins. Check-In Reporting enhancement  What a year! We’re excited to bring more enhancements your way in the coming months. As always, please let us know any ideas you have to help StandOut better support you!     

Greetings, StandOut Community!We’re back with Part 2 of our Year in Review series, where we’re looking back at release updates from the past 12 months to catch you up on anything that you may have missed. Part 1 of this series can be found here, and focuses on enhancements and updates intended to help you infuse a strengths culture into your organization. 💪 In Part 2, we’re reviewing all the ways that StandOut has brought you new flexibility and automation to meet your organizations unique needs. 🤸 Please read on below!  As always, you can check out the Near-Term Roadmap for details on what to expect next from StandOut. 🔮 💪 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle:  CREATOR Spotlight! 🎨 – Join our “StandOut with StandOut Roles” group to meet two distinct members of our StandOut team: Jenny & Takia! We hope you’re enjoying our new Engagement Pulse Series. This month our focus is: In my team, I am surrounded by people who share my values. We’d like to know, what are your 2 most important professional values and how do you demonstrate them in the work you do each day? Check out the first two articles in the Engagement Pulse series here. 📈 ADP Research Institute’s latest edition of Today at Work explores the economic impact of remote work, AI, and more. 🏡  We’re proud to be a part of Hackensack Meridian Health’s StandOut year. 💫 Why Gen Z and young Millennials would rather be unemployed than unhappy. 🙁 How to stay strong even during setbacks. 🚧  StandOut Year in Review: Providing flexibility & automation to meet the unique needs of your organization StandOut clients span numerous industries, countries, and organizational structures. Every client that we work with is unique in so many ways, and we’ve released many enhancements over the past year to provide you with options for StandOut to best fit the needs of your teams. 💖 Please read on to review the latest options for customizing Engagement Pulse surveys, new ways to automate and schedule platform communications, and enhancements that connect you directly with the StandOut support that you’re looking for.  Additional Engagement Pulse customization 🌐 You’ve always had the ability to customize Engagement Pulse questions and specify which users you’d like to survey, and this year we introduced even more options to fit the specific needs of your teams. ✔ Flexible Engagement Pulse Window: The January release brought StandOut practitioners the ability to set globally launched Engagement Pulse surveys for the length of time that is ideal for their organization. While 14 days remains the standard that we recommend keeping most Engagement Pulses at, this new capability allows organizations the flexibility to adjust the survey length to 3 or 4 weeks, or select custom dates ranging between 14 and 30 days.  Flexible Engagement Pulse Window  Customized Engagement Pulse Debrief Questions: In an effort to help administrators procure the exact insights needed to understand the Engagement Pulse debrief experience across their teams, we introduced the ability to customize the Engagement Pulse Debrief survey questions back in January. These custom questions may be added as a direct follow up to the existing Engagement Pulse Debrief questions, allowing you to dig a little deeper into the team member and team leader experience.  Flexible options for Platform Communication 💌 In today’s world of work, schedules are more varied than ever, and we’re committed to ensuring StandOut users remain in the loop by delivering automated yet relevant information to your inbox during the timeframe that’s best for you. 📩Notification Schedule:  In December we released new Notification Schedule capabilities, allowing you to select when you’d like to receive notifications from StandOut. Check out your User Settings to select the day(s) and times that you’d like to receive notifications.  Administrators are able to set organization-level notification schedules as well to align with business hours and work schedules; user-level settings will override anything set at the organization level.  Notification Schedule New User Intro Email: With the October release, we automated the process for letting new users know that they can begin using StandOut.  While in past it’s been up to the organization to send communication to users who have been added to the platform, administrators can now opt into using the New User Intro Email.  This automation reduces client lift and provides a consistent methodology for onboarding new users.  StandOut Intro Email Automation to connect directly with the StandOut Team 🗨 Have an idea? Need some help? It’s easier than ever to connect with StandOut on these things and more! 🙌 Product Ideation:  We love hearing product ideas directly from StandOut users; in fact, many of the release enhancements of the past year originated directly from user input! That why we’ve created a space within the StandOut Community specifically intended to facilitate meaningful conversations around future enhancements and user cases. Please go ahead and submit any ideas that you have, or log in to show your support for ideas that have been submitted by other users. Our Product and Community teams are regularly reviewing all ideas submitted to assist in roadmap planning. 💡 Help Button:  We’ve made it easier than ever to find the support you need with the addition of a new Help button, introduced in the January release. Once clicked, this button will serve up curated Knowledge Base articles that are relevant to the page you are on, plus a search bar for you to find additional content and navigate directly to the StandOut Community.  New Help Button Community integration with ZenDesk:  With the March release, we simplified the process for escalating bugs and issues that are reported within the StandOut Community through a new integration with ZenDesk. Users are now notified by Community moderators if their question is turned into a ticket and receive auto-generated emails when the ticket is created and routed to Product Support. They’ll then hear back directly from our Product Support team within 24 hours. No need to go chasing to multiple places; users now enjoy the convenience of StandOut support all in one place. 💫 Stay tuned for Part 3 of our StandOut: Year in Review series, coming in September!

Hello, friends!July marks the beginning of a new fiscal year here at StandOut, and to commemorate this moment we’re taking a look back. The past year has been jam-packed with dozens of new StandOut product enhancements and offerings, and over the summer we’ll be taking you on a journey to review them all. ☀ 🚙 🌲 While we’re on this summer road trip, you’ll notice another shift at StandOut: we’ve heard from clients that our 6-week release cadence can be a lot to take in and communicate out to your organizations, and so we’re moving to a quarterly release cycle to reduce practitioner lift. You can expect our next big batch of product enhancements to be ready on October 4th. Please see the Near-Term Roadmap for details on what to expect.  Onto our Year in Review journey: we hope these posts will give you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed and serve as a reminder of enhancements you may have noticed 👀 but have yet to use. First stop: let’s look at what we’ve done to help you infuse a Strengths culture into your organization. 💪 Please read on below! 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle: 💫 NEW StandOut Client Story 💫StandOut was at the center of Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s employee experience strategy predicated on the individual, the leader and the team. We are proud to be part of how Wellmark’s team has brought this strategy to life, creating an environment in which each and every employee at Wellmark shows up every day to create a better health care experience. See the results and learn more here and in the video below!    StandOut Year in Review: Helping you to infuse a Strengths Culture into your organization Building and maintaining a company culture that is truly centered on strengths often requires more than just launching the core features of StandOut. Platform adoption and a focus on strengths across all areas of work are key to achieving the cultural change that will maximize performance and drive high levels of engagement. Clients have shared with us their struggles in promoting a strengths mindset across their teams, and over the past year we’ve prioritized many new features, tools, and enhancements to address this challenge.  Please read on to see how we’ve added tools and functionality to help you quickly and easily share your strengths with others, more intuitively navigate through the different features within StandOut, strategize ways to promote a strengths culture, and help your users feel strong in using the platform. 💪 New functionality to share your strengths 📢 Strength Statement Builder: Identifying your strengths--those activities that you are good at and make you feel strong--is foundational to adopting a strength’s mindset, yet we don’t always readily know these details about ourselves. We introduced the Strength Statement Builder last August to help users quickly identify and precisely describe the activities that they love doing. This short video walks you through the details so you can update your Snapshot with the activities that you love. ❤ Strength Statement Builder Snapshot Sharing: Once you’ve updated your Snapshot with the above ⬆, it’s the perfect time to share it out with others. In January, we added a “Share” button that allows users to quickly and easily generate a link to their Snapshot that may be shared with anyone in their organization. Your Snapshot contains a wealth of valuable information that will help others to engage with you in ways that align with your strengths, and we encourage you to share it with your leaders, teammates, and any other colleagues that you work with to keep strengths front and center in your professional relationships. 💪 Snapshot Sharing StandOut Role swag: What better way to show your love of StandOut than right on your ‘fit? Now you can get StandOut tees, sweatshirts, and more by visiting our new StandOut Store! 👕👚☕ Shortcuts to help your users navigate their Strengths journey 🛣 Smart Introductions to New Team Members:  In March we released new responsive guidance to help team leaders to get to know their new team members quickly and easily. When a new team member joins their team, leaders now receive introductory information right on the Leader Summary page of StandOut.  Here, they’ll have easy visibility to the team member’s StandOut Roles, Greatest Value Statement, and a link to their Snapshot--all valuable information in knowing their individual strengths.  New Team Member Introduction Shortcut to Check-In Partnership Conversation: Check-Ins support team leaders and team members in engaging together in meaningful, strengths-based conversations. To make the most of this ritual, both parties can participate in a “Check-In Partnership” Conversation, which can be found on the Conversations page, and now also conveniently linked right within the Team Check-In page with the April release. This additional connection from the Check-In right into the Conversation was created to serve as a reminder to Team Leaders that this tool is available and will support them in having the deep and meaningful conversations that are necessary to drive engagement on their teams.  Shortcut to “Check-In Partnership Conversation” Shortcut to Role Reflect Conversation: By now you all know how valuable the Snapshot page is in understanding the strengths of your colleagues and how they tend to show up at work. The Role Reflect Conversation takes this understanding to the next level as participants engage in a deeper dive discussion of their Roles. In April, we added a shortcut allowing users to launch a Role Reflect Conversation right from the Snapshot page to make this experience even easier, all in support of workplace interactions that are grounded in strengths.  Shortcut to Role Reflect Conversation Strengths-focused events & workshops🌟 StandOut Adoption Workshop: This new 8-hour virtual workshop was developed specifically to help organizations create strategies and build momentum in support of a strengths-centered culture. Participants will become familiar with the StandOut 4-Stage Adoption Model and will become equipped to support teams across their organization in making the most of what StandOut has to offer.   Updated StandOut Strengths Coaching Certification: This newly revised certification provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. More information can now be found in the Leader Development catalog of StandOut. 🏆 Mini-Tutorial Videos to help users feel STRONG in using StandOut🌟 Season 1: StandOut Mini-Tutorial Videos To reduce practitioner lift in educating your organization, we’ve created a series of short, easy-to-reference videos that show users how to use many of the features in StandOut, all in 3 minutes or less. You’ve been introduced to these videos as they’ve been released over the past year; here’s the full season for your viewing pleasure.  Binge-worthy? We’ll let you decide! 🎥 Episode 1: Updating your Snapshot Episode 2: Participating in a Milestone Connect Conversation Episode 3: Submitting a Check-In Episode 4: Reviewing your Team’s Check-Ins Episode 5: Launching an Engagement Pulse Episode 6: Responding to an Engagement Pulse Episode 7: Understanding Your Team's Engagement Pulse Results Episode 8: Completing a Performance Pulse Episode 9: StandOut Strengths Coaching  🗨 Let us know!  Which of the new features and enhancements above have been most valuable to you and/or your organization? 😍 

Hello StandOut friends!Spring is in full bloom, 🌷 and with this release we’re bringing some fresh updates to help your organization’s StandOut usage blossom🌼. Please read on to learn about the new StandOut Adoption Workshop and our latest batch of Mini-Video Tutorials!Curious to know what’s next for StandOut? Please check out the latest Near-Term Roadmap for all the details. 🚘 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: ADVISOR Spotlight! 🎤 Join our “StandOut with StandOut Roles” group to meet a key member of our StandOut Team – Vinothini Ambrose, Director of Deployment Consulting. As an Advisor // Creator, learn what elements of her Roles resonate with her most. While you’re there, take a look around and connect with others who share your Top 2 Roles. 💫  We’re excited to kickoff the summer with our new Engagement Pulse series. Over the next few months, we will reflect on the data supporting the top indicators of engagement at any organization. Our first installment is here and we want to know What part of your company’s mission resonates most with you? Please share your thoughts in the comments section and click the subscribe button at the top of the page to be alerted of the next article. 💌  Can stress 😵 be a good motivator at work? Nela Richardson, ADP Research Institute’s Chief Economist breaks it down in this edition of MainStreet Macro.   We’ve said it before: teams are core to workplace engagement. 💙 ADP Research Institute’s latest issue of Today at Work shows that regardless of where people get their work done, they’re significantly more likely to be engaged on the job when they’re part of a team. Read the full report or watch the webinar here. 🤝   Are you interested in becoming certified to guide individuals in your organization through their StandOut results? Spots are still available for our upcoming StandOut Debrief Certification in August. Learn more and register by visiting the StandOut Community Events page. 💪  Release Date: June 1, 2024 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:New! StandOut Adoption WorkshopCompleting a Performance Pulse Mini-VideoUpdating your Snapshot Mini-Video Client SuccessNew! StandOut Adoption Workshop StandOut has the power to help each and every team member use their strengths every day, which decades of research has proven to be a key factor in achieving workplace greatness.  And of course, who doesn’t want to work someplace great? Yet getting everyone in your organization to regularly use StandOut can take some work. We’ve designed a brand-new workshop to help organizations take their StandOut experience to the next level and drive high levels of platform adoption. This experience will equip participants to be an expert in supporting everyone in the organization in making the most of what StandOut has to offer. 4-Stage Adoption Model The StandOut Adoption Workshop is an 8-hour virtual experience (broken into multiple sessions) delivered by StandOut expert consultants that leverages a 4-Stage Adoption Model to help team leaders embrace StandOut technology. Participants work together to establish adoption targets and create strategies to build momentum within their organization. They’ll then receive support in planning and executing selected adoption strategies and receive access to tailored adoption resources that may be shared with their users, all resulting in higher StandOut Platform usage for both team leaders and team members.  Whether your organization is new to StandOut or has been embracing the technology for years, the Adoption Workshop can be tailored to support your usage goals. Please work with your Client Success Partner for more information. StandOut CommunityNew! Performance Pulse Mini-Video If you’ve been following StandOut release updates over the past several months, you know we’ve been working to enhance the Knowledge Base with new mini-instructional videos on frequently used features that can be reference when needed.  Our new “Completing a Performance Pulse” tutorial walks team leaders through how to complete this simple and yet reliable performance measurement tool, so they’ll feel confident in capturing their insights as the work is happening.  Check it out below!    StandOut CommunityNew! Snapshot Mini-Video Your Snapshot is a place to share those activities that energize you, where you’re at your best, and the unique talents that you enjoy bringing to your team. Our latest Mini-Video provides a tutorial on how to fill out each section of your Snapshot, how to share it with others in your organization, and how to leverage your coworker’s Snapshots to best work with them. It’s a lot of valuable information that will help you build a better understanding of yourself and those around you, all packed into a short 2-minute video. Take a look below, and please go ahead and share with your teams as you see fit by simply copying the video link.  

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. June 1, 2024Release 5.35 StandOut Adoption WorkshopAre you a StandOut practitioner who is ready to take StandOut to the next level within your organization? This newly created workshop will equip participants to be an expert in supporting everyone in the organization in making the most of what StandOut has to offer. Performance Pulse Mini Tutorial VideoMore short & sweet mini-videos are coming to the StandOut Knowledge Base! Performance Pulse is a simple and reliable way to measure performance, and we’re creating a quick video to walk team leaders through the process of launching and submitting a Performance Pulse for their team members. Snapshot Mini Tutorial VideoYour Snapshot is an integral tool for sharing your unique strengths and talents with your colleagues, and we’re working on a new Knowledge Base mini-video to show users how to use the Strength Statement Builder, create Come to Me When Statements, and update the How to Work Best With Me section.October 5, 2024Release 24.40 StandOut Deployment GuideWork is underway to create new self-service options for client practitioners as they deploy StandOut. From technical setup to planning your communication and education materials, you'll have even more of the resources you need readily available at your fingertips, all to support you in successfully launching StandOut to your organization. Executive Dashboard UpdateWe're refreshing the Executive Dashboard section of StandOut Reporting to show data in new ways to help you quickly get to the level of detail needed to understand StandOut adoption and usage in your organization.  Engagement GroupingsEmployee engagement is a continuum, with fully engaged employees at one end and people who are not at all engaged at the other end. New StandOut Engagement Groups are being developed to help StandOut Admins know were team members' engagement falls along this continuum and differentiate between the needs of team members in the different groups. February 15, 2025Release 25.07 StandOut Content SubscriptionStandOut offers many leader development programs, and we're exploring new approaches to deliver this content in more simplified and accessible ways, through both instructor-led and digital self-paced modules.

Hello StandOut friends!Our latest product release is all about making StandOut more efficient and effective for you! 🌼We’re pleased to share client-requested enhancements within both Check-In and Roll-Up Reporting that put more of the metrics you’ve been looking for right at your fingertips. Newly created connection points between platform features make it easier than ever to navigate your StandOut journey, with built-in recommendations on ways to better connect with others and build on your strengths. Please read on below to learn more, and if you’re curious to know what’s next for StandOut, check out our Near-Term Roadmap. 🚀Other big news with this release--we have a new StandOut Store! You can now show off your love for StandOut with branded apparel and merchandise, or buy a StandOut gift card to recognize a strengths play in action! 🎁 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: The StandOut Community is launching a new series that will highlight a different StandOut role each month.  We’re kicking off the series with a focus on Advisors! 📣 Join our StandOut with StandOut Roles Group to learn more about Advisors, and all of the 9 Roles!  Interested in learning more about the strengths-based approach and how to effectively leverage the best of yourself? Registration is still open for 90-minute public offering of the StandOut Team Member Certification, happening in May. 💪 Did you know that StandOut offers coaching too?  Watch this short video to learn more! 🏅 The Lazy Girl Job misnomer and what it means for the future of work. 💁 5 DE&I Trends to Keep Track Of in 2024 to create workplaces where everyone can thrive. 🌱  Release Date: April 20, 2024 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:Roll-Up Reporting EnhancementsCheck-In Reporting EnhancementsTeam Check-In Conversation ShortcutSnapshot Conversation Shortcut Leader SummaryEnhancement: Roll-Up Reporting  Leaders-of leaders will have an even better understating of engagement across their teams with this release. We’re adding some team-by-team breakdowns of the Roll-Up Reporting metrics found in the Leader Summary. Leaders will still have the aggregate view of results that they see today, and they’ll also have the new option to drill down by team for further insight. Here are the details:The Engagement Pulse Items card has been renamed Engagement Pulse Details. This card now has two tabs:The first tab shows Aggregates: this is the existing view, showing aggregate Engagement Pulse scores for all teams rolling up (as defined by their direct team + 1 level below) to a leader.  The second tab shows Team Details: this is a new view of Engagement Pulse scores broken out by team. Here are the deets: Team Details will only be available if the leaders of each team have shared their Engagement Pulse results with their leader. If Engagement Pulse results haven’t been shared, the user will see “Request Engagement Pulse Results” button.  Clicking this button will immediately send a request to the owner of the results for them to share the results with the user (their leader), which they can approve or deny.  If an Engagement Pulse is still open, scores in this tab will be replaced with a “Survey Still Open” message. Responses from an open survey will only be included in the aggregate scores when the survey has closed. If an Engagement Pulse has closed with fewer than 3 responses, the scores will be replaced with a “Not Enough Data” message. For these surveys with 1-2 responses, results will still roll into the aggregate scores.  If the ability to share Engagement Pulse results has been turned off for a leader, the scores will be replaced with a “Leader Cannot Share Results” message.  If there is no Engagement Pulse data for a quarter, then the card will have an empty state. Engagement Pulse Details CardThe Check-in Submissions & Views card has been updated to include an extended window of 8-weeks of data instead of the previously shown 4-weeks, and now also has two tabs:The Check-In Summary tab shows the aggregate trend of submissions and views data, now extended to an 8-week window. The Check-In Details tab shows a team-by-team breakdown of Check-In data by week. Users are able to click through 8 weeks of Check-In data to see team-by-team results.  This tab also includes an action column, allowing the user to “Nudge Team Leader” for any team where the Team Leader’s view rate is less than 75%. This new button will appear on Mondays (leaders can’t be nudged before then), and use of this nudge button is limited to once per week. When this button is clicked, the Team Leader will receive an email notification informing them that they have Check-Ins to view and a link to take them directly to their Team Check-In page.  Check-In Submissions & Views CardReportingEnhancement: Check-In Reporting Check-Ins provide the rich and frequent connection that is proven to increase workplace engagement, and we’re so pleased to deliver on client-requested enhancements to Check-In Reporting with this release. StandOut practitioners will have access to several new metrics to further support them in driving Check-In adoption throughout their organizations. With this release, the Check-In Adoption section of Reporting will show two tabs:The Team Member tab provides data that is based on individual Team Member submission frequency, and includes the existing 6 Week Summary of Check-In frequency donut chart and a NEW Trend Over Time line chart showing fluctuations in Check-In submission frequency over time. Existing filtering capabilities will still be available in this tab. The Team Leader tab provides new reporting based on Team Leader view of Check-Ins and attention. This tab offers filtering functionality that is consistent with that offered in the Team Member tab, and includes the following charts: NEW Team Leader Views:   🍩 A donut chart view of the level to which leaders are viewing Team Member Check-Ins for a given set of filters.   📈 A line chart view of how this data fluctuates over time.  NEW Team Leader Attention: 🍩 A donut chart view of the level to which Team Members are reporting the attention they are receiving from their leaders.  📈 A line chart view of how this data fluctuates over time. Check-In Reporting Enhancement  The Learn More modal within this page has been updated to reflect these enhancements. All of the new charts are exportable, using the dropdown in the upper-right corner. The Team Check-In Adoption Usage Report has also been updated to reflect these changes. Teams of less than 3 will continue to show blank values in fields to protect respondent anonymity. This improved visibility into Check-In metrics will reduce the practitioner lift needed to understand usage and attention across the organization, so you can focus your time less on data sorting and more on sharing out the many benefits of Check-Ins.⭐ Team Check-InsNew! Shortcut to Our Check-In Partnership Conversation  In an effort to support Team Leaders in engaging in meaningful, strengths-based conversations with their Team Members, we’ve created a new launch card on the Team Check-Ins page that suggests launching an “Our Check-In Partnership” Conversation.  Not only will this card remind Team Leaders that this valuable, interactive Conversation is available to use, but it also provides a convenient and relevant way for them to launch it directly from the Team Member’s Check-In. 🙌 New “Launch a Check-In Partnership Conversation” card Clicking on the launch card will automatically take the Team Leader to the Conversations page and launch the “Our Check-In Partnership” Conversation modal with the Team Member’s name already selected. By creating this additional connection to the Conversation directly within the Check-In, Team Leaders can focus less on the platform logistics and more on having the deep and meaningful conversations that are necessary to drive engagement on their teams.  SnapshotNew! Shortcut to Role Reflect Conversation StandOut makes it easier for colleagues to connect with each other, starting from a foundation of how they naturally show up at work. A user’s Snapshot page contains so many valuable details, including their personal strengths, activities that they’d love to help their colleagues with, and how they work best.  By reviewing your colleague’s Snapshot, you’ll build an understanding of who they are and a foundation for positive workplace interactions together.  And now it’s easier than ever to take this understanding a step further with the creation of a new launch card on the Snapshot page that suggests launching a “Role Reflect” Conversation. New “Launch a Role Reflect Conversation” card Clicking on this launch card will automatically take the user to the Conversations page and launch the “Role Reflect” Conversation modal with the Team Member’s name automatically selected. Once launched, StandOut will send the Conversation template to the invited colleague.  Once both have completed the template, they’ll be prompted to schedule a conversation to discuss their responses and learn more, helping them to work together more effectively based on how they tend to show up at work. 💫 

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. April 20, 2024Release 5.34 Check-In Reporting EnhancementsNew & improved Check-In reporting is coming your way! We’re delivering on client-requested updates to help practitioners quickly and easily access Check-In data broken out by Team Member and Team Leader segments. Roll-up Reporting EnhancementLeaders of leaders will have an even better understanding of engagement across their teams after this release. Based on suggestions from clients, we're adding some team-by-team breakdowns of the roll-up reporting metrics found in the Team Leader Dashboard. Team Check-In Conversation ShortcutAs part of our efforts to find easy ways for Team Leaders to integrate strengths-based tools into their team interactions, we're adding a new shortcut on the Team Check-Ins page. This card will serve a helpful reminder for the Team Leader to launch Interactive Conversations to facilitate deeper connections with their team. Snapshot Conversation ShortcutTo facilitate user connection using a strengths lens, we're adding a new shortcut to all Snapshot pages which will prompt users who are viewing someone's Snapshot to launch a "Role Reflect Conversation" to get to know their colleague better. June 1, 2024Release 5.35 Performance Pulse Mini Tutorial VideoMore short & sweet mini-videos are coming to the StandOut Knowledge Base! Performance Pulse is a simple and reliable way to measure performance, and we’re creating a quick video to walk Team Leaders through the process of launching and submitting a Performance Pulse for their Team Members. Snapshot Mini Tutorial VideoYour Snapshot is an integral tool for sharing your unique strengths and talents with your colleagues, and we’re working on a new Knowledge Base mini-video to show users how to use the Strength Statement Builder, create Come to Me When Statements, and update the How to Work Best With Me section. July 13, 2024Release 5.36 StandOut Deployment GuideWork is underway to create new self-service options for client practitioners as they deploy StandOut. From technical setup to planning your communication and education materials, you'll have even more of the resources you need readily available at your fingertips, all to support you in successfully launching StandOut to your organization.

Hello, StandOut Community! We hear you! 👂 We’re so appreciative of all opportunities we have to hear directly from StandOut users, and our latest product release is full of updates and enhancements that have been requested by you! From reporting enhancements 📊 to easier platform navigation 🚍 to video tutorials 📺, we’re pleased to deliver on what clients have requested. Keep ‘em coming!  💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: Interested in learning more about the strengths-based approach and how to effectively leverage the best of yourself? Registration is open for 90-minute public offering of the StandOut Team Member Certification, happening in May. 💪 Workplace engagement expert Amy Leschke-Kahle, on the importance of priorities vs. tasks ✔, why you should have a phone-a-friend 📞, and why to share 💬: It’s Time To Shift Focus: Move Away From Tasks Towards Priorities (forbes.com) ADP Research Institute Chief Economist Nela Richardson on measuring and nurturing the trust factor. 🤝 Release Date: March 9, 2024 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:Reporting Chart ExportsEngagement Pulse Usage Report enhancementNEW! Smart Introductions to New Team MembersStandOut Strengths CoachingAssessment Social Media SharingMilestone Connect Mini-VideoEngagement Pulse Mini-VideosStandOut Coaching Mini-VideoStandOut Community integration with Zendesk ReportingEnhancement: Reporting Chart Exports Clients have requested the ability to export StandOut charts, and we’re pleased to deliver with this release! Users with access to StandOut Reporting will notice that all charts have the option to export as a PNG or PDF, making it easier than ever to share within your organization to improve buy-in.  Reporting Chart Exports Charts that can be exported include the following:StandOut Reporting: Check-In Adoption donut chart Engagement Pulse scatter plots (By Audience, By Team, By Employee) Engagement Pulse Trends Over Time Performance Pulse scatter plot StandOut Admin→ Engagement Pulse (for Admin-launched Engagement Pulses): Engagement Pulse scatter plot Engagement Pulse heat map  ReportingEnhancement: Engagement Pulse Usage Report Update StandOut clients recognize how important it is for Team Leaders to understand Engagement Pulse results and debrief with their teams. Over the past year we’ve been focused on providing more data, reporting, and capabilities to best equip your Team Leaders. With this release we’re adding two new data points to the Engagement Pulse Usage Report to help organizations better understand what leaders are doing with results:Date Viewed: the date that the Team Leader first viewed their Engagement Pulse results (subsequent views will not impact this date). Date Shared: the date that the Team Leader first shared a set of Engagement Pusle results with either their entire team or any individual (subsequent shares will not impact this date).   Engagement Pulse Usage Report Team Leader DashboardNew! Smart Introductions to New Team Members By using a strengths lens, Team Leaders can get to the heart of what matters most when getting to know their new Team Members, answering questions like: Where do they add value? How do they like to be recognized? What talents would they like to offer the team? StandOut provides visibility into all of these valuable insights, and with this release we’re introducing new responsive guidance to help leaders of teams get to know their new team members quickly and easily.  This new smart introduction will appear automatically on the Team Leader Dashboard whenever a new individual joins their team, showing the new Team Member’s profile picture, full name, Top 2 Roles, Greatest Value Statement, and a link to their Snapshot. Below these details in the Things you could explore section, leaders will see recommended paths to get to know their Team Member(s) better based on features that the user is able to access. All of this information will also be sent to the Team Leader via email notification. New Team Member Introduction This introduction will be generated within one day of the new Team Member either completing the Strengths Assessment or being added to their static or dynamic team. Team Leaders will NOT experience this introduction for any new Team Members that they have led within the last 3 months. It’s required that both the Team Leader and Team Member have completed the Assessment for the introduction to appear. Once the Team Leader selects Got it, the guidance will be dismissed.Note: This will be exclusive to desktop users only; it will not be accessible via mobile. Leader DevelopmentEnhancement: StandOut Strengths Coaching StandOut Strengths Coaching was updated with Release 5.31, and with this release it’s being added to the Leader Development catalog of StandOut, making it more easily accessible to users who have access to this section (please work with your Client Success Partner if you don’t have access and would like it).This certification provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. The newly revised certification includes a deeper exploration of our coaching model, and combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, peer-to-peer coaching, and StandOut tools and resources for becoming a strengths-based coach.  StandOut Strengths Coaching Strengths AssessmentNew! Social Media Sharing The StandOut Strengths Assessment provides a starting point for anyone who wants to explore personal strengths, and the details of your StandOut Report are key to unlocking your unique genius to find your edge at work. 🌟 StandOut users recognize the importance of sharing these results within their organizations so that coworkers can see them for their best, but what about sharing with professional colleagues outside of your organization? We’ve added at “Share on LinkedIn” button to the top of the “My StandOut Report” page, found in the upper right corner of your StandOut homepage, or by navigating to My StandOut-->My StandOut Report in the top navigation. This button offers an easy way for users to post their Top 2 Roles, Greatest Value Statement, and a link to encourage others to take the Assessment on LinkedIn. Sharing this tidbit of information that is so meaningful to who you are will strengthen your professional profile in a brand-new way. 💪 Social Media Sharing ConversationsEnhancement: Milestone Connect Mini-Videos We’ve been working to enhance the Knowledge Base with new mini-instructional videos on frequently used features for you to reference when needed. Our last batch of videos focusing on the Check-In feature were so well-received that we quickly made more. First up is a quick walkthrough of Milestone Connect. Thank you to those of you who recommended this topic for a Mini-Video in the Community!   Engagement PulseEnhancement: Engagement Pulse Mini-Videos Continuing the Mini-Video progress mentioned above, we’ve also created a batch of short videos to support your organization’s Engagement Pulse:Responding to an Engagement Pulse: intended for all users, this video shows how to take the Engagement Pulse survey. Launching an Engagement Pulse as a Team Leader: intended for Team Leaders, this video shows how to launch an Engagement Pulse. Understanding Your Team’s Engagement Pulse Results: intended for Team Leaders, this video shows where to access and how to interpret their team’s Engagement Pulse results.Check these videos out below!Leader DevelopmentEnhancement: Coaching Mini-Videos And last but not least in the video production happening with this release, we also have a brand-new tutorial to walk you through the StandOut Coaching offerings and where to find them. Grab some popcorn and take a few minutes to enjoy all 4 new mini-videos. 🍿StandOut CommunityEnhancement: Zendesk Integration Please keep the questions coming to the StandOut Community! 💫 We love seeing Product Ideas and Questions submitted directly by users like you! With this release, we’re simplifying the process by enabling bugs and issues that are reported in the Community to be immediately escalated to a Zendesk Support ticket. Users will be notified by Community moderators if their question has been turned into a ticket, they’ll receive an auto-generated email when the ticket is generated and routed to Product Support, and they can expect to hear back from Product Support within 24 hours. This enhancement is an easy way to handle everything all in one place.⭐

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. March 9, 2024Release 5.33 Heat Maps & ChartsStandOut reporting is key to understanding the state of your workforce, and we're investing resources to make these results even more meaningful and accessible. We're working towards the ability for practitioners to export heat maps and charts, making it easier for them to share out the metrics that tell their organization's engagement story! Team Joining Card for Team LeadersWe're creating an experience that will help leaders welcome new team members into StandOut with an easy-to-follow path to enhance their understanding of their strengths. Assessment Social Media SharingWe've added the ability to easily share your Top 2 Roles + Greatest Value Statement on LinkedIn. Engagement Pulse Usage Report EnhancementsTo help organizations better understand how leaders are using Engagement Pulse results, we're updating the Engagement Pulse Usage Report to show when leaders have viewed and shared results. Milestone Connect Mini Tutorial VideoWe're creating a new mini-video to walk users through Milestone Connect. This idea came directly from clients and will assist users in quickly getting up to speed on how to participate in a Milestone Connect. Engagement Pulse Mini Tutorial VideosWe're releasing 3 new mini-videos (each is 2-minutes or less) highlighting the following topics: how to respond to an Engagement Pulse, how to launch an Engagement Pulse as a Team Leader, and what to do with Engagement Pulse results as a Team Leader. Coaching Mini Tutorial VideoLast but not least in this cycle's video production will be a short tutorial on StandOut Coaching offerings and where to find them. April 20, 2024Release 5.34 Check-In Reporting EnhancementsWe're working towards enhanced Check-In reporting to help clients quickly and easily access the Check-In data they need for any segment of their organization. Roll-Up Reporting EnhancementsLeaders of leaders will have an even better understanding of engagement across their teams after this release. Based on suggestions from clients, we're adding some team-by-team breakdowns of the roll-up reporting metrics found in the Team Leader Dashboard. Team Check-In Conversation CardAs part of our efforts to find easy ways for Team Leaders to integrate strengths-based tools into their team interactions, we're adding a new card on the Team Check-Ins page. This card will serve suggestions for the Team Leader to launch Interactive Conversations to facilitate deeper connections with their team. Snapshot Conversation CardTo facilitate user connection using a strengths lens, we're adding a new card to all Snapshot pages which will prompt users who are viewing someone's Snapshot to launch a "Role Reflect Conversation" to get to know their colleague better. June 1, 2024Release 5.35 More Mini Tutorial VideosClients have requested that we keep the mini-video content coming, and more is on the way! If there are specific topics that you'd like to see covered, please let us know in the Standout Community.

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed.March 9, 2024Release 5.33 Heat Maps & ChartsEngagement Pulse reporting is key to understanding the state of your workforce, and we're investing resources to make these results even more meaningful and accessible. We're working towards the ability for practitioners to export heat maps and charts, making it easier for them to share out the metrics that tell their organization's engagement story! StandOut New User JourneyWe're creating an experience that will help leaders welcome new team members into StandOut with an easy-to-follow path to enhance their understanding of their strengths. Usage Report EnhancementsWe're updating the Engagement Pulse Usage Report to show which leaders have viewed and shared results, and we're updating the Team Activities Usage Report to show facilitator email address.April 20, 2024Release 5.34 Upkeep & MaintenanceWe're focusing on behind-the-scenes work for this release to address all the tiny details that optimize your StandOut experience.June 1, 2024Release 5.35 Roll-Up Reporting FilteringWe're bringing several enhancements based on client suggestions to provide leaders of leaders with deeper insights into their organization.

Happy New Year, StandOut friends! ✴ We’re kicking off 2024 with a release cycle that is full of new features and enhancements to make this your strongest StandOut year yet!With this release, we’re pleased to bring you a new Help Button, new Conversations, several Engagement Pulse enhancements, and more! Please read on below for more details, and be sure to check out the Near-Term Roadmap to see what’s planned for upcoming releases. 🏎 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: Happy New Year to our StandOut Community! 🎉 Interested in learning more about the strengths-based approach and how to effectively leverage the best of yourself? Registration is open for a 90-minute public offering of the StandOut Team Member Certification. 💪 In this season of gratitude, don't forget this vital piece. 🙏 Let’s slay some long-standing workplace issues in this new year! 🗡 The latest research from ADP Research Insitute’s Mary Hayes and Nela Richardson on workforce gender gaps proves there’s still work to be done:  https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/workplace-gender-equality-still-prominent-issue 🚻 Focus on Strengths, Not Stereotypes when working with a multi-generational workplace. 👶👧🏼👨👵Release Date: January 13, 2024 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:NEW Help ButtonNEW ConversationsEngagement Pulse Results SharingFlexible Engagement Pulse WindowCustomized Engagement Pulse Debrief QuestionsSnapshot SharingSnapshot RearrangeMini Videos StandOut PlatformNew Feature: Help Button We’re adding a new Help button in the lower right corner of the StandOut platform that will serve up curated Knowledge Base articles in an easy-to-access way. This Help button includes a search feature and links directly into the StandOut Community, where users can ask questions and view the full Knowledge Base (you’ll need to log in to do this). At the time of this release, the Help Button is available in English only. By meeting you right where you are—in platform—with the additional content you may need, we hope our users will feel even stronger in StandOut! New Help Button ConversationsNew Features: New Interactive Conversations & Conversation Guide It’s no secret that workplace conversations are a clear path to connection. And the richer and more meaningful those conversations are, the deeper the feelings of connection will be. StandOut users have been loving the Conversations area since it was introduced back in May, and we’re pleased to introduce even more topics to support you in connecting with your leader and colleagues with our upcoming release.  Within the Conversations section of StandOut, users will see 2 new Interactive Conversations: Role Reflect will help participants to better understand each other based on their roles, and Check-In Partnership will help Team Leaders and Team Members to discuss expectations for this weekly ritual. These Interactive Conversations provide an in-platform experience that is similar to that of Milestone Connect: users will be guided to record and share answers to key questions with another user. Their responses will be visible to the person they are sharing with, unless they choose to mark them as private.  All questions are optional, and both participants will be able to edit their responses up until the Conversation is marked as complete. We’re also bringing you a new Conversation Guide, Exploring Your Opportunity, to facilitate discussions around career growth and development. Like the other Conversation Guides, users will be able to download this interactive PDF to facilitate meaningful conversation. ConversationsAll of these Conversations will be defaulted to ON for all clients, and these additional topics will be added to the Conversations Usage Report, allowing practitioners to quickly track who has and hasn’t completed them, while keepings the specific details entered into the Conversation confidential to the related participants. Engagement PulseEnhancement: Engagement Pulse Results Sharing Engagement Pulse results are delivered directly to the Team Leader, and while leaders have a significant impact on team engagement (StandOut research indicates up to 70% of employee engagement is due to the Team Leader), it’s also important for the full team to own responsibility for understanding the scores and taking steps to improve engagement.  That’s why we’re pleased to bring you new Engagement Pulse Results Sharing capabilities with this release!  Here’s a video to learn more:Team Leaders will notice a “Share Results” button has been added to the top right corner of their Engagement Pulse results.  From there, they’ll have two options for sharing:Sharing with Team: this delivers results to the full team.  It’s beneficial for the team to see these results in advance so that debrief conversations can happen in a more thoughtful and prepared way. Please note, once results have been shared with the team this cannot be undone. Individual Access: this allows the leader to select specific individuals to share with.  We recommend sharing with their leader, mentor, or colleagues who can support them in digesting the results and preparing for their team debrief. Shared access to individuals may be removed at any time.   Recipients of Engagement Pulse results will receive an email and an in-platform notification when results have been shared. They’ll see a Conversation Guide to help prepare for the team debrief conversation, and below the guide they’ll see full Engagement Pulse results, including a lightbulb icon next to each question that provides more insights into the question and what it means. With easy sharing capabilities, teams can now dive right into valuable conversations to help Team Leaders understand the trends and true meanings behind the scores, all leading to higher team engagement.  Engagement PulseEnhancement: Flexible Engagement Pulse Window Engagement Pulse data is key to understanding engagement trends in your organization, and this data becomes increasingly valuable the more voices that are heard. In an effort to provide the flexibility needed to accommodate varying needs across businesses, industries, and countries, we’ve created the capability for administrators to launch Global Engagement Pulses for durations beyond the standard 14-day survey window.  While we recommend keeping most Engagement Pulses at the standard 14 days, this new capability will provide options for organizations when they need it.  When launching a Global Engagement Pulse from StandOut Admin, practitioners will now be presented with a “Set Survey Window” option as the 4th step to launching the survey. From here, they can select if they’d like the survey to live for 2, 3, or 4 weeks, or select a custom Survey End Date that is between 14 and 30 days out (surveys may not live for shorter than 14 days or longer than 30 days).Flexible Engagement Pulse WindowThe Flexible Engagement Pulse Window capability will be defaulted to ON for all clients with this release.  Please consult with your Client Success Partner if you have questions or are considering extending the window of your organization’s Engagement Pulses. Engagement PulseEnhancement: Customized Engagement Pulse Debrief Questions We introduced the Engagement Pulse Debrief survey back in October, and this update is a fast follow-up allowing administrators to include customized questions in the survey if needed to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the Team Leader and Team Member debrief experience.  Customize Engagement Pulse Debrief questions may be added by your Client Success Partner only as a direct follow up to the existing Engagement Pulse Debrief questions: administrators will indicate if the new question is based on existing Question 1 or 2, and which specific response should trigger this additional question.  Interested in adding customized questions?  Here are the deets: similar to the Engagement Pulse custom question functionality, the questions may be binary (yes/no), multiple choice, Likert scale, or open text and can have a max of 2,000 characters. Translations may be added in any platform language and must be provided by the client. Up to three custom questions each may be added to the Engagement Pulse Debrief Team Leader and the Engagement Pulse Debrief Team Member surveys, and they’ll appear below the core survey questions. Custom questions cannot be changed for any live Engagement Pulse Debrief Surveys, and any custom questions and responses will be added as additional columns in the Engagement Pulse Debriefs Usage Report. Please work with your Client Success Partner if you’d like to add customize questions to any upcoming Engagement Pulse Debrief Surveys. My SnapshotEnhancement: Snapshot Sharing Your Snapshot is a place to communicate to others how they can best work with you, what makes you feel engaged, and where your strengths lie. It’s a wealth of valuable information, yet in the past it sometimes felt like a hidden gem💎 within StandOut because it wasn’t the easiest for others to navigate to.  To solve for this, we’re adding a “Share” button to the top right corner of a user’s Snapshot page, which will allow them to easily generate a link to their Snapshot that may be shared with anyone in their organization. Snapshot SharingIf you share your Snapshot with someone in your organization that isn’t currently using StandOut OR is logged out, they’ll see a pre-login page that states “Users would like to share their Snapshot with you” and shows your name, avatar, StandOut Roles, and a link to log-in. Once logged in, they’ll be taken directly to your Snapshot. Users who are not within your organization and receive a link will not be able to access your Snapshot. Increased visibility to your Snapshot will make it even more likely that your team and colleagues will engage with you in ways that align to your strengths. So continue to share your individual strengths and skills in this space, and be sure to check out other’s Snapshots too; collectively this will make work an even more engaging experience for everyone. 💫 My SnapshotEnhancement: My Snapshot Rearrange You may have noticed in the above Snapshot image ⬆ that we’ve made some slight adjustments to the My Snapshot page.  We rearranged the furniture in a way that feels more consistent with other platform pages. The same content that you know and love is still there, just in a refreshed way: the first sentence of your Greatest Value Statement has been moved up to the header, right under your name, the Greatest Value section has been renamed “Roles at Work”, and sections have been shifted within the page. We hope you enjoy the new look! 💐 StandOut CommunityNew! Knowledge Base Mini-Videos We’re enhancing the Knowledge Base with new mini-instructional videos on frequently used features for you to reference when needed. Our first batch focuses on the StandOut feature that most directly improves team engagement: the Check-In. These videos are intended to be quick and easy resources to support you in StandOut. Click the videos below to learn more about Submitting a Check-In and Reviewing Your Team’s Check-Ins, and remember--these videos can be sent to anyone by simply sharing the link. 📽  

Hello, StandOut Community!Welcome to our final product release of the year. 🎀 StandOut 5.31 went live on December 2nd, and includes client-requested updates such as a new Notification Schedule and enhancements to the Conversations user experience. Please read on to learn about these updates and more!As always, you’ll be able to see what’s coming next for StandOut in our Near-Term Roadmap 🚗. 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: Gain a competitive talent advantage for your organization by getting in touch with your work force's state of mind.🔮 TMBC’s Vice President of Talent Insights and Innovation, Amy Leschke-Kahle, explains how to make culture unconditional.🌎 Student loan payments are back, and employers should care: Employers & Student Debt.💸Release Date: December 2, 2023Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:NEW Notification ScheduleConversations EnhancementsDeactivated Team Survey ResponsesUpdated StandOut Strengths Coaching Certification StandOut PlatformNew Feature: Notification Schedule StandOut serves users across many industries and time zones, so it only makes sense that the ideal time to receive StandOut notifications varies by user.  As a result, we’ve created new options for scheduling StandOut notifications to arrive when you want to receive them.  A new “Notification Schedule” section has been added within User Settings.  From there, users may select when they want to receive StandOut notifications: Anytime, Every Day, Weekdays, or within a specified Custom window. Once set, any notification triggered outside of your selected window will be sent during the next window of time that you have allowed notifications, with a few exceptions: Assessment Complete, Forgot Password, and Account Suspended notifications will still be sent immediately.This feature will be automatically available to all users with this release and can be set at both the user level and the organization level; user-level settings will override the organization-level schedule. The Notification Schedule will default to “Anytime”, meaning users will receive notifications when they are scheduled by StandOut or triggered by another user (for example, when an Engagement Pulse is launched). So please go ahead and update your User Settings so that you’re hearing from us at the time that is best for you. Notification Schedule ConversationsEnhancement: User Experience updates StandOut remains committed to building connection through Conversations, and we’re making a few enhancements to this area to further facilitate reflection and transparency in this process:Reflection Editing: Users will now be able to edit their reflection even after submitting a Conversation, allowing them to keep the Conversation updated with relevant information that they can refer back to, resulting in richer Conversations. Users will be able to edit their Conversation until it’s marked as complete, and the other party will be notified when changes are made. A “Last edited on” note will also appear at the bottom of the Reflection section to indicate when the latest change was made. 📝 Mark as Complete: We’ve heard from users that they were often forgetting to mark their Conversations as complete, or didn’t realize this step existed. To make this final step clearer, a new “Have you had this conversation?” notification will appear on the In-Progress Conversation tile (located both within the Conversations home page and Check-In page) and in-platform notification modal 14 days after both parties have completed the wizard, prompting users to either mark the Conversation “Complete” or indicate if they plan to “Do It Later”. If the latter option is selected, a second reminder notification will be delivered at 30 days.  Tracking Conversation completion will result in more accurate data and reporting, less confusion, and an overall better user experience. ✔ Engagement Pulse & Custom SurveysEnhancement: Deactivated Team Responses Engagement Pulse & Custom Survey reporting is intentionally aligned to Team Leader structure, since so much of engagement influence lies with the Team Leader. In the past, when a team has been deactivated (this occurs when a leader leaves) during a survey window, the Team Members who have not yet responded have lost the ability to respond. Yet it’s important that every voice is represented within the organization results, and so we’re updating this functionality so that Team Members will still be able to respond to a survey even if their leader has left.With this update, Team Members who are part of a team that is deactivated during the survey window will receive messaging to inform them that they may still respond to the survey even though their team no longer exists.  They’ll receive updated reminder emails too. The former Team Leader will not receive survey results, and any custom messaging that the Team Leader entered into the survey will be removed; custom messaging entered by StandOut admin will remain. Responses will roll up to organization-level reporting.This enhancement has been a longstanding client request that we’re pleased to deliver on. Supporting users on deactivated teams to have their voices heard will lead to higher response rates, resulting in higher quality data that is more representative of the organization and will better equip leaders to continue moving engagement forward.    Leader Development Enhancement: Updated StandOut Strengths Coaching Certification The StandOut Strengths Coaching Certification provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. This newly revised certification includes a deeper exploration of our coaching model, and combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, peer-to-peer coaching, and StandOut tools and resources for becoming a strengths-based coach.  

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed.December 2, 2023Release 5.31 Notification ScheduleStandOut users will now have the ability to customize on which days and times they receive email notifications. We're so pleased to be able to deliver reminders and coaching tips to your inbox at a time that is best for you! StandOut Strengths Coaching CertificationThe newly revised StandOut® Strengths Coaching Certification, including a deeper dive into TMBC’s strengths coaching model, provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. This certification combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, and peer-to-peer coaching to build a solid foundation for becoming a strengths-based coach. Conversations UX UpdatesThanks to user feedback shared in listening sessions, we're planning a few upgrades for the Conversations user experience, including adding clarity around when a Conversation should be marked as "complete" and allowing edits to be made during live Conversations.January 13, 2024Release 5.32 Help ButtonWe're making it easier than ever to find relevant content within StandOut by adding a help button that will serve up curated Knowledge Base articles right in the platform - meeting you right where you are, with the answers you need! Conversations EnhancementsWe're excited to bring several enhancements to our Conversations feature, to facilitate even more connection within your organization. The "Our Check-In Partnership" and "Understanding Our StandOut Roles" Conversation Guides are being upgraded to Interactive Conversations, and a new Conversation Guide focusing on mentorship and growth will be available. Shareable Engagement Pulse ResultsAn enhancement is coming your way that will make it easier to share out Engagement Pulse results, helping leaders to give better visibility both to their teams and their leaders. Engagement Pulse Debrief Survey CustomizationOrganizations will be able to add custom questions to the Engagement Pulse Debrief survey (introduced with Release 5.30), allowing you to collect data specific to your organization's unique needs. Engagment Pulse Window FlexibilityYou'll soon be able to launch Engagement Pulses for longer than the current standard of 14 days, allowing organizations the flexibility to collect responses over an extended period of time. Snapshot SharingSoon it will be easier than ever to share your unique strengths and tendencies with others; we're creating the ability to share a link directly to the Snapshot page to facilitate quick and easy strength communication.March 9, 2024Release 5.33 Heat Maps & ChartsEngagement Pulse reporting is key to understanding the state of your workforce, and we're investing resources to make these results even more meaningful and accessible. We're working towards the ability for practitioners to export heat maps and charts, making it easier for them to share out the metrics that tell their organization's engagement story. StandOut New User JourneyWe're creating an experience that will help leaders welcome new team members into StandOut with an easy-to-follow path to enhance their understanding of their strengths.

Happy fall y’all, and happy release day! 🍂🌻TMBC has been hard at work to bring you a release that is jam-packed with new features and enhancements. StandOut 5.30 includes the brand-new StandOut Insights, which will deliver automated presentations telling the story of your organization’s engagement journey in an easy-to-share format. We’re also pleased to share an idea we’re experimenting with - the Product Ideation space within the StandOut Community, where we invite you to submit your ideas for new features and enhancements. Please read on to learn about both of these features, plus so much more!As always, you’ll be able to see what’s coming next for StandOut in our Near-Term Roadmap 🚗. 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: Check out our new look! 💎TMBC.com has been updated to look and feel more like the StandOut platform, with new icons, images, and videos—plus new copy that better explains who we are and what we do at TMBC.  As a StandOut user, you’re likely aware of the significant role that leaders play in your organization’s engagement. But did you know that StandOut also offers coaching to support leaders in their strengths-based approach?  Check out this StandOut Leader Development Overview video 📺 to learn more.   The ADP Research Institute’s latest edition of Today at Work focuses on the hidden truth 🔍 about promotions and why the recently promoted are at risk to leave😲.  The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece on  ⬆  too: Up, Then Out: Why People Quit After Getting a Promotion - WSJ Amy Leschke-Kahle, TMBC’s Vice President of Performance Acceleration, shares some thoughts on how to make your organization’s culture more than just a tagline in this  RecruitingDaily Podcast. 🎧 The latest from our founder, Marcus Buckingham, on why AI will never be able to effectively drive consumer and employee behavior: The Business Case for Love - HBR ❤Release Date: October 14, 2023Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:NEW StandOut InsightsNEW Engagement Pulse Debrief TrackingAssessment-Only Coaching.com IntegrationProduct Ideation in the StandOut CommunityNEW Intro Email for New UsersEngagement Pulse % Response Rate ReportingNEW Engagement Pulse Results Video ReportingNew Feature: StandOut Insights We’re so pleased to share with you a brand-new Reporting feature that analyzes StandOut data to create meaningful stories about your organization’s engagement journey. We’re calling it StandOut Insights, and it will deliver ready-made digital presentations featuring employee-level data calculations right to your doorstep (within StandOut). You’ll be able to easily share these stories with anyone in your organization, from senior leaders to front-line workers, offering a simple way to communicate the positive impact of StandOut so that you can do more of what’s working. Please check out the video below and read on to learn more: You’ll find StandOut Insights in the Reporting section of StandOut. Stories will be automatically generated to clients who have a significant portion of their organization completing regular Check-Ins and responding to 2+ Engagement Pulse surveys—more details on this can be found in the “Learn More” modal on the StandOut Insights page, which gives an overview of the feature, details about how stories are generated, and how you might use the stories to gain buy-in and determine future strategy. StandOut Insights page When new stories are generated, practitioners with access to StandOut Reporting will see a new StandOut Insights tile at the top of their Executive Dashboard, as well as on the StandOut Insights page, which also shows past stories that have been generated. In-platform and email notifications will also be sent whenever new stories are generated.By now you’re probably wondering: what is a StandOut Insights story? Stories are presented in an interactive slideshow format, with text content that is specifically curated based on data scores. With this release, two StandOut Insight stories will generate for qualifying organizations:Why Leader Attention Matters: You’ve likely heard from us the importance of Team Leader and Team Member connection. This story shows the correlation between Team Leader attention and engagement within your organization. Percent Fully Engaged Deep Dive: Engagement is a movie, not a photo: it’s always shifting and changing. This story dives into how your organization’s latest Engagement Pulse results may have changed since your last set of surveys. And it includes a brand-new metric called Engagement Stability, which shows employee-level engagement over time. Both stories begin with a summary of StandOut adoption metrics and then dive into data and key findings that tell a meaningful story and wrap up with recommendations for what’s next. All stories have a shareable link and PDF option; no additional permissions are needed to view them, so you can easily share throughout your organization. StandOut Insights: Engagement Stability StandOut Insights access will be defaulted to ON for all clients with this release. So please check it out and share with others in your organization! We hope this is a helpful tool in communicating the bigger picture of your organization’s engagement.  Engagement PulseEnhancement: Engagement Pulse Debrief Tracking The Engagement Pulse survey is a quick and reliable way to measure engagement across teams, but to truly impact engagement it’s critical that Team Leaders act on the results. We’ve heard from some clients that it would be beneficial to be able to track which leaders are following up with their teams to have conversations around Engagement Pulse results, and as a result, we’re pleased to bring to you the new Engagement Pulse Debrief survey.   When turned on, an Engagement Pulse Debrief survey will go out to all Team Leaders one week after an Engagement Pulse survey closes. Team Leaders will be prompted to share if they met with their team to discuss the recent Engagement Pulse results and if they found that discussion to be a good use of time.  It the Team Leader responds that they did meet with their team, an Engagement Pulse Debrief survey will then be sent to their Team Members with similar prompts. Practitioners will be able to track survey responses in a new Engagement Pulse Debrief Usage Report found in the Reporting section of StandOut. Engagement Pulse Debrief Tracking Please connect with your CS partner if you’d like to turn the Engagement Pulse Debrief survey ON for your organization. They’ll be able to configure how long you’d like to allow users to respond: 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks.  Survey reminders will go out to anyone who hasn’t yet responded 21 and 14 days prior to survey close (if the survey is open for that extended length of time), as well as 4 days prior to close for Team Leaders and 3 days prior to close for Team Members.   Assessment OnlyEnhancement: Coaching.com Integration We’re partnering with Coaching.com to provide non-enterprise Assessment takers with the opportunity to better understand their Assessment Results by connecting them with 3rd-party StandOut Debrief Certified Coaches via the Coaching.com platform. As of this release, free Assessment takers will see a button to find a coach on the interface where they receive their Assessment results. StandOut CommunityEnhancement: Product Ideation 🔬 Fun fact: several of the updates within this release are the direct result of user ideas. We love hearing product ideas from you--our users, so we're experimenting with a new space within the StandOut Community to facilitate meaningful conversations around future enhancements and use cases. Please visit this space when you have a new idea for a StandOut enhancement or feature. 💡Community members will first be asked to search to see if their idea has already been submitted: if it has, you can upvote and/or add a comment to indicate your support. If you can’t find an existing submission for your topic, you can select Submit an Idea.  From here, you’ll be asked to clearly define the use case or business problem that is not met with current functionality. Once these details are entered, just click SubmitYour idea will be reviewed regularly by our Community and Product teams to determine next steps. All ideas will be weighted using parameters including number of votes, complexity, impact, reach, and strategy alignment—we’ll regularly update your submission to indicate where it falls. Your ideas make our platform awesome, so please keep ‘em coming; we're committed to partnering with you to hear what you'd like to see next! Check it out here! StandOutNew Feature: Intro Email In the past, when new StandOut users have been added to an organization’s user file, it’s been up to the organization to let them know that they can begin using StandOut and how to log-in.  We’ve automated this process so new users can now receive an email right from StandOut. This enhancement not only reduces the lift required of the client sponsor, but also creates a consistent methodology for onboarding new users.  StandOut Intro Email This feature will be available to all clients at the time of this release, with the addition of a “New User Intro Email” tile in the User Management section of Admin.  From there, you’ll be able to select when you’d like to begin delivering automated emails to new users, language preferences, and any custom messaging you’d like to include about why your organization is using StandOut. Once activated, all future users will receive this automated email within approximately 24 hours of being added to StandOut. Engagement PulseEnhancement: % Response Rate In an effort to make StandOut reporting feel as easy as possible, we’ve added the % Response Rate to Engagement Pulse reporting.  Previously leaders saw the Response Rate reported as a fraction (i.e., 9/9 Team Members Responded), and now the % is shown too.  Because really, who wants to do math? 🤓 Engagement Pulse % Response Rate Engagement PulseNew: Engagement Pulse Results Video Team Leaders will notice a new video linked next to Overall Results on the Engagement Pulse page. This video walks leaders through how Engagement Pulse results are calculated and what they mean, providing helpful context as you consider your team results. Engagement Pulse Results Video 

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed.October 14, 2023Release 5.30 StandOut InsightsIn an effort to provide practitioners with better visibility into the meaning and implications of StandOut data, we're creating a new feature called StandOut Insights. This feature will provide you with the story behind your organization's data, surface trends, and share actionable coaching to help you drive employee engagement and StandOut adoption. Coaching.com PartnershipWe're partnering with Coaching.com to provide non-enterprise Assessment takers with the opportunity to better understand their Assessment Results by connecting them with 3rd-party StandOut Debrief Certified Coaches via the Coaching.com platform. As of the 10/14 release, free assessment takers will see a button to find a coach on the interface where they receive their assessment results Product Ideas in StandOut CommunityWe love hearing product ideas from StandOut users, so we're creating a space within the StandOut Community to facilitate meaningful conversations around future enhancements and use cases. Your ideas make our platform awesome, and we're committed to partnering with you to hear what you'd like to see next! Engagement Pulse Debrief TrackerWe're creating a new tool to help organizations better understand and track which leaders are taking action on their team's Engagement Pulse results, and how valuable completed debrief conversations were to all participants.  StandOut Introduction EmailNew StandOut users can now be warmly welcomed into the platform with an automated email. When configured on, this email will be sent to new users once they are added to your organization's User File. Admin users can configure this to meet their unique timelines.December 2, 2023Release 5.31 StandOut Knowledge BaseWe're making it easier than ever to find relevant content within StandOut by adding an embedded widget that will serve up curated Knowledge Base articles right in the platform - meeting you right where you are, with the answers you need! Notification SchedulerStandOut users will now have the ability to customize on which days and times they receive email notifications. We're so pleased to be able to deliver reminders and coaching tips to your inbox at a time that is best for you! StandOut Strengths Coaching CertificationThe newly revised StandOut® Strengths Coaching Certification, including a deeper dive into TMBC’s strengths coaching model, provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. This certification combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, and peer-to-peer coaching to build a solid foundation for becoming a strengths-based coach. Conversations UX UpdatesThanks to user feedback shared in listening sessions, we're planning a few upgrades for the Conversations user experience, including adding clarity around when a Conversation should be marked as "complete" and allowing edits to be made during live Conversations.January 13, 2024Release 5.32 Conversations EnhancementsWe're excited to bring several enhancements to our Conversations feature, to facilitate even more connection within your organization. The "Our Check-In Partnership" and "Getting to Know You" Conversation Guides are being upgraded to Interactive Conversations, and a new Conversation Guide focusing on mentorship and growth will be available. Shareable Engagement Pulse ResultsAn enhancement is coming your way that will make it easier to share out Engagement Pulse results, helping leaders to give better visibility both to their teams and their leaders. Engagement Pulse Debrief CustomizationOrganizations will soon be able to add custom questions to the Engagement Pulse Debrief survey (introduced with Release 5.30), allowing you to collect data specific to your organization's unique needs. Engagement Pulse Reporting EnhancementsWe're working to make Engagement Pulse reporting even more accessible by creating the ability to export charts and heat maps so that you can easily share them out with others. Snapshot SharingSoon it will be easier than ever to share your unique strengths and tendencies with others; we're creating the ability to share a link directly to the Snapshot page to facilitate quick and easy strength communication.

Hello StandOut Community! StandOut 5.29 went live on August 5th, 2023, and with this release we’re pleased to introduce you to the new Strength Statement Builder, a Conversations enhancement especially for our Magnet healthcare clients, and more. So please take a moment to sit back and read on for the full scoop🍦.Curious to know what’s next in StandOut? Check out our Near-Term Roadmap 🚀 to see what’s planned!💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: It’s not too late!⌛ Please join our upcoming Building Connection through StandOut one-hour webinar, taking place on Wednesday, August 23 at 10 am – 11 am PST.  TMBC’s Vice President of Leader Development, Amy Powell, will discuss research on the importance of leader and peer relationships at work and share tools and strategies to help people build strong, meaningful connections. Register now to learn more. Speaking of connection, did you know that a weekly check-in with employees can transform employer-employee connection? 💫 Amy Leschke-Kahle, TMBC’s Vice President of Performance Acceleration, discusses the phenomena of loud quitting in this  RecruitingDaily Podcast. 🎧Release Date: August 5, 2023Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:NEW Strength Statement BuilderMagnet Healthcare Peer Connect EnhancementStandOut Platform Language Enhancement My SnapshotNew Feature: Strength Statement Builder Knowing and leveraging your strengths—those activities that you are good at and make you feel strong-- is foundational to StandOut. Yet for many of us, it’s not so easy to just rattle off the list of things we do that bring us joy. We’ve created the Strength Statement Builder to help users quickly identify and precisely describe the activities that they love doing. Because the sooner you know what your strengths are, the sooner you’ll be able to articulate them to colleagues and put them to work to find love in your job.Watch this short video and read on to learn more: The Statement Builder provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for crafting a statement that will speak to your inherent strengths. It will be located on the My Snapshot page, right above the Come to Me When section.Strength Statement Builder in My SnapshotIn the Strength Statement Builder section users will first see a box encouraging them to get specific about their strengths.  When they select “Let’s Go”, they’ll be asked “Do you want to walk through building a Strength Statement or write it yourself?”: I’ll Enter it Myself:Users who select this option are presented with an example Strength Statement and then prompted to select a verb and enter details clarifying the subject, audience/team, and objective of their strength. Walk Me Through It:Users who select this option will see a series of screens similar to the “I’ll Enter it Myself” option shown above and will also have options to select if the subject or topic matters, if it matters who the activity is for, and if it matters what the objective of the activity is. Their Strength Statement will be automatically adjusted based on the responses to these prompts, creating an even easier user experience.  Due to the complexity of certain language structures, the “Walk Me Through It” option is only available to users who have their platform language set to English.Strength Statement Builder While it’s critical to know and articulate your own strengths to find a path to love at work, it’s also important to recognize other people’s strengths so that you can help them shine. Users will be able to see what Strength Statements others have shared by searching for them in People Search and clicking on their Snapshot.You also may notice that Strength Statements share some similarities with Come to Me When Statements; both are places for users to share activities that they love doing. The difference is that Strength Statements are enduring—they should capture those strengths that you’ve always had, that follow you throughout life and across jobs. Come to Me When Statements tend to capture the here and now; they are reflective of the tasks and responsibilities that you enjoy in your current job. That’s why we’ve created the option to make Strength Statements public OR private, allowing users to document even those strengths they’d rather not share in their current job.  Strengths Statements are defaulted to ON and users will see an in-platform notification that this new feature is available. Like Come to Me When statements, Strength Statements will remain in the language you created in them in; no automatic translation will occur.So give it a try! Maybe you struggle to identify what your inherent strengths are, and the Strength Statement Builder will help you to identify those hidden loves. Or maybe you’re a strength superstar with a long list of strengths, and the Strength Statement Builder will help you to more precisely define and focus on those activities that are best for you.  Either way, the Strength Statement Builder has something for everyone who seeks a better understanding of their red threads.  ConversationsEnhancement: Magnet Healthcare Peer Connect Enhancement A common enhancement request that we’ve heard from our healthcare clients is to evolve StandOut to enable supporting their work towards Magnet compliance. Magnet Recognition is a major badge of honor, and to remain compliant, healthcare organizations are required to establish a formalized peer connection system for their nurses. We’re so pleased to introduce a solution with this release that can allow our clients to satisfy this need directly in StandOut and do it through a strengths-based lens. These users will now be able to launch, complete and track completion of their Magnet peer connect conversations using the same Conversations hub as Milestone Connect. As Magnet conversations are for peers, nurses can select any other StandOut user in their organization to connect with. Peer-to-Peer Connect Conversation This specific Interactive Conversation will be defaulted OFF for all clients, and our Client Success team will work with existing healthcare clients to determine plans for turning the feature on.Once launched, the Peer-to-Peer Connect Conversation will guide both participants through a simple, action-oriented conversation about the strengths and development opportunities of the Peer Requester. Once both parties have completed the reflection, they’ll advance to the conversation itself. They’ll be able to view both their responses and those of their colleague and will be provided with a conversation guide and space to record actions taken away from the conversation. After they’ve connected, both parties will be able to mark the Peer-to-Peer Connect Conversation as complete. StandOut practitioners will be able to track completion with a new “Peer-to-Peer Connect” filter in the Conversations Usage Report. It’s a simple process to facilitate a strengths-based conversation, all while helping organizations to remain Magnet compliant. StandOut PlatformEnhancement: Canadian French Language Users who have their preferred platform language set to Canadian French may notice some text changes in StandOut.  We’ve worked with localization experts to understand how these users would appreciate seeing things worded and have updated language throughout the platform accordingly. 🍁

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed.October 14, 2023Release 5.30 StandOut InsightsIn an effort to provide practitioners with better visibility into the meaning and implications of StandOut data, we're creating a new feature called StandOut Insights. This feature will provide you with the story behind your organization's data, surface trends, and share actionable coaching to help you drive employee engagement and StandOut adoption. Coaching.com PartnershipWe're partnering with Coaching.com to provide non-enterprise Assessment takers with the opportunity to better understand their Assessment Results by connecting them with 3rd-party StandOut Debrief Certified Coaches via the Coaching.com platform -- look for more to come soon! StandOut Knowledge BaseWe're making it easier than ever to find relevant content within StandOut by adding an embedded widget that will serve up curated Knowledge Base articles right in the platform - meeting you right where you are, with the answers you need. StandOut Introduction EmailStandOut users will be warmly welcomed into the platform with an automated email, which will be sent to new users when they are added to your organization's User File. Admin users can configure this to meet their unique timelines. Engagement Pulse Debrief TrackerWe're creating a new tool to help organizations better understand and track which leaders are taking action on their team's Engagement Pulse results. Product Ideas in CommunityWe love hearing product ideas from StandOut users, so we're creating a space within the StandOut Community to facilitate meaningful conversations around future enhancements and use cases. Your ideas make our platform awesome, and we're committed to partnering with you to hear what you'd like to see next! December 2, 2023Release 5.31 Notifications SchedulerStandOut users will now have the ability to customize which days and times they receive notifications. We're so pleased to be able to deliver reminders and coaching tips to your inbox at a time that is best for you! Conversations UX UpdatesThanks to your feedback in recent listening sessions, we're planning a few upgrades for the Conversations user experience, including adding clarity around when a Conversation should be marked as "complete", and allowing edits to be made during live Conversations.  StandOut Strengths Coaching CertificationThe newly revised StandOut® Strengths Coaching Certification, including a deeper dive into TMBC’s strengths coaching model, provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. This certification combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, and peer-to-peer coaching to build a solid foundation for becoming a strengths-based coach.January 13, 2024Release 5.32 Engagement Pulse Window CustomizationYou'll soon be able to customize the length of time that Engagement Pulse surveys span, allowing more options to launch surveys that are beyond the current two-week standard. Shareable Engagement Pulse ResultsAn enhancement is coming your way that will make it easier to share out Engagement Pulse results, helping leaders to give better visibility to their teams and their leaders.

Hello, friends!Summer is just kicking off 🌞, but can you believe we’re already almost half-way through 2023? This weekend’s StandOut 5.28 release contains some behind-the-scenes updates and our new Building Connection through Standout position paper. This cycle, we’d like to take this time to reflect on some of the new features and updates we’ve brought to you so far in 2023. See below for a glimpse of what we’ve been up to this year, and as always please check out our Roadmap to see what’s in store for the next few releases.💌You’re invited!  Please join TMBC’s Vice President of Leader Development, Amy Powell, for a one-hour webinar: Building Connection through StandOut. The second in a series of topic-based discussions, the webinar will take place Wednesday, August 23 at 10 am – 11 am PST.We’ll discuss research by TMBC on the importance of leader and peer relationships at work, and share tools and strategies to help people build strong, meaningful connections. Register now to learn more.All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar and post-webinar tools to use with your teams.  💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes:Workers are spending more time in meetings these days, whether it be in front of a camera or in the office. Amy Leschke-Kahle, TMBC’s Vice President of Performance Acceleration, shares how you can Avoid Meeting Overload and maximize your time ⌚. Check out the latest edition of the ADP Research Institute’s Today at Work to learn how to cultivate talent brand promoters within your organization 🎉. Being a great leader doesn’t have to be complicated or hard😵; we’re sharing with you the Not-So-Secret Sauce To Leading In The New World Of Work. The Year So Far: What StandOut has Brought to You! We’ve been working hard to bring you many new features and enhancements this year, all with the goal of supporting engagement and connections across your teams. Please read on for a recap of some of the big changes brought to you by StandOut over the past six months. Helping You Build Connections at Work💫 Team Activities: In January we released multiple updates to our popular Team Activities feature, and we quickly followed up in February with the release of 4 NEW Team Activities. Many of you have been leveraging these already in meetings with teammates, colleagues, and other partners to build connections, all leading to engagement. Each of the new Team Activities allow facilitators to choose from prompts to facilitate discussions with participants that tie into the key themes of StandOut: values, strengths, recognition, and what’s to come. If you haven’t tried them yet, please do!  It’s a fast and fun way to engage differently with people--and anyone can participate! Check out the video below to learn more: Conversations: Many of our clients were searching for ways to help employees feel more connected to their leaders, their teammates, and their colleagues, so in May we released our new Conversations feature to serve as a connection hub for all members of your organization. This feature houses the new-and-improved Interactive Milestone Connect experience and several Conversation Guides to lead you through meaningful interactions at work. Giving You Better Visibility into How It’s Going🔍 Roll-up Reporting: Those of you who have people reporting to you who also have people reporting to them have been enjoying insight into those teams below you since the April release of Roll-up Reporting. Leaders of leaders are using this data to drive engagement within their teams and organizations and giving their next-level team members the attention they deserve. See how it works in the video below.  New Usage Reports: With the addition of our new Team Activities and Conversations features, we of course added reporting to help our StandOut practitioners understand how these features are being used across their organizations. Check out the new Team Activities Usage Report and Conversations Usage Report.New Usage Reports Other Reporting Enhancements: We’ve made many enhancements and tweaks throughout the year to increase transparency and give you visibility into the metrics you need in an easy-to-use format. Some recent Reporting Enhancements included improvements to the user experience when applying filters and the ability to easily view audience-level data within Check-In Adoption Reporting.  Making it Easier for You to Do Your Work and Shine🌟 StandOut Knowledge Base: The StandOut Knowledge Base moved into its new home 🏘 in February, and we’re so glad that many of you have stopped by!  If you haven’t visited yet, please come anytime to access Knowledge Base articles or contact StandOut support--we’re here to help you feel STRONG as a StandOut user! “Discover StandOut” SCORM eLearning Content: Sharing the “Discover StandOut” trainings is easier than ever now that it’s available in a handy SCORM Wrapping. Clients are loving the ability to plug this into their own LMS to track content creation for new hire orientation and new user onboarding.  Long Term Priorities enhancements: Organizations that use Long Term Priorities are enjoying several enhancements: the character limitation has been increased and they’ve been conveniently added to the Check-In History export, enabling Leaders to more easily access them.Exporting Long Term Priorities via Check-In History StandOut Team Member Certification: We’ve created a new, compact, and engaging StandOut Team Member Certification program that makes it even easier for facilitators to become certified in StandOut’s core strengths concepts. Milestone Connect notifications: As a fast follow to our big December release of the NEW Digitized Milestone Connect, we created additional platform notifications to keep the process flowing for both Team Members and Team Leaders so that you can be sure to have these meaningful discussions. Engagement Pulse Custom Guidance Links: We’ve provided the option for StandOut administrators who add additional questions to the Engagement Pulse to leverage custom guidance links to extra guidance created by their organization on how to interpret and act on survey results.  🗨 Let us know!  Which of the new features and enhancements above have been most valuable to you and/or your organization? 😍 

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed.August 5, 2023Release 5.29 Strength Statement BuilderStrengths are the foundation of StandOut, and we're creating a tool to help users quickly identify existing strengths so they can begin leveraging them to find love in their work. Conversations Magnet Peer Review Enhancement for Healthcare clientsWe're building a solution for our Healthcare clients that will enable them to satisfy Magnet requirements right in StandOut, eliminating the need to leverage multiple systems. StandOut Platform French-Canadian Localization AuditAs we continue to expand StandOut globally, we're always working to ensure that our users around the world have the best experience possible. Users who have selected French (Canada) as their StandOut language will notice some updates this release following a full platform localization audit that we're conducting. Building Connection through StandOut - WebinarOur Leader Development team will be back with another webinar focused on Connection. We'll discuss research by TMBC on the importance of leader and peer relationships at work, and share tools and strategies to help people build strong, meaningful connections. Please plan to join us on August 23rd from 10 am - 11 am PST.  Register here!October 14, 2023 (new date)Release 5.30 StandOut InsightsIn an effort to provide practitioners with better visibility into the meaning and implications of StandOut data, we're creating a new feature called StandOut Insights. This feature will provide you with the story behind your organization's data, surface trends, and share actionable coaching to help you drive employee engagement and StandOut adoption. StandOut Introduction EmailNew StandOut users will be warmly welcomed into the platform with a new automated email, which will be sent to new users when they are added to your organization's User File. Admin users can configure this to meet their unique timelines.  Engagement Pulse Debrief TrackerWe're creating a new tool to help organizations better understand and track which leaders are taking action on their team's Engagement Pulse results. StandOut Strengths Coaching CertificationThe newly revised StandOut® Strengths Coaching Certification, including a deeper dive into TMBC’s strengths coaching model, provides professional coaches with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to coach individuals from a strengths-based perspective. This certification combines virtual classroom learning, 1:1 mentoring with a TMBC-certified coach, and peer-to-peer coaching to build a solid foundation for becoming a strengths-based coach.December 2, 2023Release 5.31 Notifications ScheduleStandOut users will now have the ability to customize on which days and times they receive email notifications. We're so pleased to be able to deliver reminders and coaching tips to your inbox at a time that is best for you!

Happy Release Day, StandOut friends!StandOut 5.27 is live as of Saturday, May 13, 2023, and with this release comes a brand-new area of StandOut called Conversations 💬.  Please read on to learn more about this new feature, as well as several other enhancements coming your way. If you’re curious to know what’s coming next in StandOut, please also check out the Near-Term Roadmap 🚀. 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes:Amy Leschke-Kahle, TMBC’s Vice President of Performance Acceleration, shares the importance of reframing how we talk about work, because words and phrases matter. It’s time to stop the spiral of elementary school 🏫 practices in the workplace and "grownupify" work😎. These glimmers are giving us red thread vibes! 💗 Are awards important?🏆 Here's why you should consider them when purchasing tech. Registration is now OPEN for the next Today at Work event, hosted by Marcus Buckingham, ADP Head of People + Performance Research, and Nela Richardson, ADP Research Institute Chief Economist. Sign up today! 🎉 https://registration.socio.events/e/talentbrandpromoters Release Date: May 13, 2023Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature:NEW Conversations featureShortcut for updating your Profile PictureVisual enhancements to Assessment Report pageCome To Me When - Updated guidanceAccessibility: Branding color update (for default settings)StandOut Team Member 90-Minute Certification ConversationsNew Feature: Building connections at work Organizations understand the importance of employee connection now more than ever.  We’ve heard from many clients who are looking to help employees feel more connected to their leaders, their teammates, and their colleagues, which in turn helps them feel more connected and engaged in their work.  Great conversations are the foundation of connection, and we’re thrilled to introduce you to a brand-new area of StandOut, which we’ve designed to be a connection hub for all members of your organization.  We’re calling it Conversations, and it will facilitate discussions within and across teams using a strengths-based lens.Watch this short video and read on to learn more: The Conversations homepage features four sections: Interactive Conversations, Conversation Guides, In-Progress Conversations, and Conversations History.  1. Interactive Conversations: Users are guided through an in-platform experience to record and share answers to key questions. The first Interactive Conversation is Milestone Connect, which prompts Team Members and Team Leaders to discuss recent wins, challenges, and the future. Milestone Connect builds upon the weekly Check-In, but with a longer focus and deeper dive, allowing Team Members to be seen in a more meaningful way.Those who have used Milestone Connect in the past will notice that it’s moving from the My Check-In page to Conversations Home with this release. Anyone who prefers the PDF Milestone Connect experience will still be able to access it via the Resource Hub. Interactive Conversations 2. Conversation Guides:  Users will be able to download new interactive PDF guides to assist them in having meaningful conversations. Conversation Guides may be used offline, and some even have links that will take users to other relevant sections of StandOut.  This section will grow over time, and with this release we’ll have Conversation Guides available covering three topics:Our Check-In Partnership: Facilitates a conversation between a Team Member and Team Leader to examine what’s working well and what they may want to adjust in their weekly Check-Ins. Understanding Our StandOut Roles: Guides a discussion through which users can dive deeper in their StandOut Roles and identify how Roles show up in their work.  Connecting with Colleagues: Provides conversation starters to get to know someone in a new way focusing on strengths and StandOut Roles.Conversation Guides 3. In-Progress Conversations: This section shows all Interactive Conversations currently in-progress, which are also visible on the My Check-In page.  If you’d like to close a Conversation before it’s completed, click on the drop down and select “Archive”. This will move the Conversation to the Conversations History section, where it will no longer be editable.  The other person involved in the Conversation will receive a notification of this change. In-Progress Conversations4. Conversations History: All inactive (completed, archived, etc.) Conversations will be shown. Users will be able to view the detail page of the Conversation and download a PDF. Visibility is consistent with Milestone Connect in that Team Members will be able to view content they’ve entered but not content entered by their leader, while Team Leaders will have visibility into all content submitted.Conversations HistoryConversations will be defaulted to “On” for all clients who use Check-Ins. It can be easily found on the Top Navigation panel of your StandOut homepage. Users will see an “About” modal the first time they land on the page, containing details to introduce the feature. If you’d like to turn Conversations off, or turn off just the Interactive Milestone Connect section, please connect with your Client Success Partner. A new Conversations Usage Report will be available with this release, providing practitioners with the ability to quickly track who has and hasn’t completed Conversations, while keeping all other content entered confidential to the related participants.Conversations Usage ReportWith the creation of the Conversations homepage as a centralized location for all In-Progress and Completed Conversations, we’re adjusting some of the notifications previously used within Milestone Connect. The email notification that users previously received once they completed their portion of the Milestone Connect Conversation, providing a link to the detail page, is being removed. Users will now be able to easily access their Milestone Connect details within the Conversations homepage. Additionally, when users click on an Archived notification in the platform they will now be conveniently routed right to the Conversations homepage. StandOut ProfileEnhancement: Profile picture shortcut Looking to update your StandOut Profile Picture?  It’s easier than ever with the addition of a camera icon right on the StandOut home screen, providing another way to make this change. Profile pictures can still be updated from the My Snapshot page too, and clicking on your picture (not the camera icon) will still take you right to My Snapshot—no changes there.Camera icon added for Profile Picture changes StandOut AssessmentEnhancement: My Standout Report We’re making a few visual enhancements to the My StandOut Report area of the desktop platform.  You’ll still have access to all the same insightful information, just with a new look and feel: the purple banner across the top has been replaced with a new starry background, and the “My Pins”, “Download Report”, and “About My StandOut Report” links have been adjusted to be directly below the heading.  SnapshotEnhancement: Come To Me When Statement guidance Existing guidance for the Come To Me When Statement area of the platform is being updated to help differentiate this feature from the upcoming Strengths Statement Builder.Previous description: Offer your strengths to the team by describing activities that invigorate you at work. New description: Which skills and talents would you like to offer up to your colleagues? Let everyone know!Accessibility updateEnhancement: Default branding color We’re updating our default branding color to add more contrast for accessibility purposes. Clients who do not use custom branding may notice this change to a slightly deeper shade of blue, shown below. StandOut branding color update Leader DevelopmentNew Feature: StandOut Team Member Certification  We have a new certification program that will train facilitators to deliver a 90-minute (in-person or virtual) version of StandOut Team Member: a compact and engaging introduction to StandOut’s core strengths concepts. This certification is conducted virtually, in four 2-hour sessions, and is available to any TMBC clients or independent practitioners who have completed the StandOut Debrief Certification as a prerequisite.