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The Check-In Experience Research

Power of Attention Experience

Private Check-In Notes for Team Leaders

Editable Check-In Loves & Loathes

Check-In Spotlight Questions

Additional Language Translations

StandOut Connection Video Series for Content Subscribers

SSO Updates

Conversations User Experience Enhancement

Research
New resource! The Check-In Experience: The Human Side of High-Quality Connections at Work

Weekly connections between team leaders and team members are key for building trust, aligning on priorities, and driving engagement. With this release, we’re introducing a new brief that brings together the findings from a series of research projects designed to help us understand what a meaningful and valued “connection” looks like, sounds like, and feels like in the real world, including:

•  Things that make connections valuable to team leaders
• Things that team member most appreciate about their Check-In experiences
•  Characteristics of a great Check-In

The findings detailed in this brief break down the mechanics and opportunities of the experience of giving and receiving attention. Leaders are provided with directional guidance to elevate the attention they provide to their teams, and practitioners will gain insights to better support their team leaders in developing trust with and engagement among their direct reports. Click below to read the full article! 

Research

New resource! The Power of Attention

Attention is a powerful tool, as proven by our latest findings on the impact it has on employee engagement. This new research brief offers an updated look at the relationship between these two factors and highlights the importance of paying attention to yourself as a team member, receiving attention from your team leader, and the compounding effects of these behaviors over time.

By taking a longitudinal approach to examining trends and changes over time to the inputs and outcomes of the attention-engagement relationship, the StandOut Research Team has discovered the first empirical evidence of a causal relationship between attention and engagement.  

This brief provides a summary of compelling new evidence – information that can be leveraged by individual contributors, team leaders, and HR professionals to effect positive change on their own and others’ experiences at work. 

Read the full research brief here: The Power of Attention

Check-Ins
Enhancement: Private Notes for Team Leaders

We’ve heard from StandOut clients that it would be helpful for team leaders to have a way of documenting notes privately to themselves within their team member’s Check-In, and we’re delivering on that request with this release. With new private note functionality, team leaders will be able to add, edit, and delete notes to themselves that will be attached to the team member’s current Check-In week. These notes may be edited within 30 days of creations, viewed within historical Check-In data, and will be retained for the duration of the Check-In data.

Team leaders may also share private notes with other static and dynamic leaders of the team member. Email and platform notifications will be sent to the receiving leader when a note is shared with another leader. This feature will help StandOut leaders remember the details they need to provide their team members with intentional and focused attention during their Check-In.

Check-Ins
Enhancement: Editable Loves & Loathes

Delivering on another request that we’ve heard from StandOut clients, we’re pleased to offer new functionality to help users pay more attention to which activities make them feel strong or weak throughout the week using Check-In Loves & Loathes.

Did you remember a meeting from last week that really energized you, but you forgot to enter it into your Check-In? Was there an activity that really drained you that you’d like to share with your leader? The Loves & Loathes section of the Check-In will now be editable after submission, so users can document these things for future conversations and data records.

Once a Check-In has been submitted with Loves & Loathes input, an “Edit” link will appear in the top right corner of the widget.  If the Check-In doesn’t include Loves & Loathes input, the top corner link will say “Add”. Once the user has added or modified the content, a “Save” button will be enabled. The date & time stamp for this section will update each time a modification is saved.  If the team leader has already viewed the Check-In prior to the modification, they will receive a notification via platform and email alerting them to the modification with a link to view it. 

Check-Ins
Enhancement: Spotlight Questions 

Big news--we’re freshening up your favorite weekly ritual with a fun enhancement to facilitate connection in a new way! With this release, a rotating popup Check-In Spotlight Question will appear after you submit your Check-In.  This question will change each week to encourage new conversations between team members and team leaders. 

With this enhancement, there are no changes to the current Check-In process: the submission experience will remain the same.  After a Check-In is submitted and Coaching Intelligence appears, a new Spotlight Question will popup. There will be a new question each week, and all users will receive the same question. Spotlight Question responses will appear on the My Check-In page under the Strengths and Value Pulse section, where the response will be editable and shareable during the Check-In week. 

Team leaders will be able to view team member responses to the Spotlight Question directly below the Strengths and Value Pulse section, and a new widget has also been added to the Leader Dashboard where they’ll be able to scroll through all team member responses to the question.  A new “About” module on this page contains general information on what the Spotlight Question is and shows what the next 5 questions will be. 

Platform
Enhancement: Additional Language Translations

To ensure that users have the best experience possible as we continue to globally expand StandOut, we’re adding the following platform translation options this cycle (in addition to those that already exist):

• English (UK, Australia, Canada) 
• Dutch
• Hindi
• Romanian
• Spanish (International, Mexico)
• Vietnamese

Content Subscribers
New resource! StandOut Connection Series

The Enterprise Content Subscription library is growing, and with this release subscribers will be introduced to a fun new video series focused on the topic of connection! The first video of the series provides a fun and light-touch view of how team leaders can provide meaningful attention through regular check-ins with their team members. 

Platform
Enhancement: Access & Identity Management

For ADP Lyric clients who are using StandOut, we’re creating a single log-in experience to make it simpler and easier for users to access both products.

Conversations
Enhancement: Auto-Expanded Conversation Details

To improve the user experience when engaging in StandOut Conversations, the notes text area will now auto-expand while the Conversation is in progress to show as much of the note as possible, reducing the need for users to scroll.

Other Attention resources in StandOut:

If you’re looking for more ways to facilitate team leader attention in StandOut, please check out the previously released resources below:

Check-Ins:

• Submitting a Check-In
• Reviewing your Team’s Check-Ins
   

Paying attention to your team member’s Snapshot: 

• For high performing team members
• For performance problem team members

Leader Coaching & Workshops:

• StandOut Check-In Conversation Coaching: This three-session 1:1 coaching engagement is specifically designed to help team leaders have more meaningful Check-In conversations with their people.

• StandOut Team Leader Workshop: This highly interactive strengths-based program encourages personal discovery and reflection for team leaders, while providing practical tools and strategies for applying the rituals and practices that the best team leaders do.

• Coaching Essentials for Team Leaders Workshop: This program empowers people leaders with strengths-based coaching skills to accelerate individual team member performance and provide real-time, in-the-moment coaching.