- Proactive Feedback - This is always available to members and let’s employees message @Windy to leave feedback for their colleagues.
- Requested Feedback - This is always available to members and let’s employees message @Windy to request feedback from their colleagues.
- Windy Prompted Feedback - Windy prompted feedback has to be turned on by an Admin of the Windmill account. When enabled, @Windy will prompt team members to give feedback based on collaboration patterns we see across the integrated systems Windy Prompted Feedback leverages Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to reach out to employees at exactly the right time, with the right context, to collect the best feedback possible. This ensures feedback comes immediately after collaboration, when it’s most fresh and relevant.
How to enable Windy Prompted Feedback
As an Admin in your Windmill account, you can enable Windy Prompted Feedback by going to Settings > Feedback and enabling “Windy Prompted Feedback”. This will enable it for any subset of the organization that you choose.How does Windy Prompted Feedback work?
Windmill connects to your existing business systems (Slack, Google Drive, Jira, GitHub, etc.) and analyzes millions of activities to identify key moments that should yield helpful feedback. Here’s the process:- Windmill analyzes activities - We identify key moments and events across your connected tools
- Find the right people - We understand who is best positioned to provide meaningful feedback
- Windy reaches out - Via Slack, Windy contacts team members to collect feedback while it’s fresh
- Aggregate for managers - Feedback is collected and organized for managers to understand each person’s contributions
Benefits of Feedback on Windmill
Feedback in real time Modern managers shouldn’t wait for dedicated performance cycles. Team members deserve the opportunity to improve on a weekly basis, not quarterly or annually. Reduces manager burden Being a manager is hard, and it’s difficult to keep track of every team member’s contributions. Windmill helps collect feedback from collaborators you may have overlooked. Keeps business moving Your organization shouldn’t stop for month-long review cycles. The pace of business moves too quickly. Windmill simplifies the process so you can focus on continual feedback and delivering value for customers.How feedback works
Feedback frequency
Windmill believes that more feedback is better—feedback is a gift. As a general baseline, we aim to collect feedback once or twice per week per employee. We’re always optimizing to minimize the effort required while maximizing the value of the feedback collected.Feedback sources
The feedback you see in Windmill comes from two sources: Windy collects it through Slack Windy solicits feedback from people at critical moments, ensuring it’s timely and relevant. Your underlying business systems We can also identify feedback in other systems like Slack, Google, Jira, etc., and pull that in automatically.Initiating feedback
Giving unsolicited feedback
You can always give feedback without Windy asking. Just start a new thread with Windy and say: “Hey @windy, can I give some feedback to [person’s name]“Requesting feedback
If you want to request feedback from teammates, ask Windy to collect it for you. Open a new thread with Windy and write: “@Windy can you get some feedback about me from [person’s name]”You can give feedback to multiple people at once. Just reach out to @Windy and ask to give feedback to multiple people—Windy can assist with that.
Who can see the feedback I leave in Windmill?
Feedback is only visible to your direct manager in Windmill. These feedback will be displayed in the “Catch Me Up” section of your 1:1s and in your performance review observations. When a user is prompted for feedback, Windy will always specify who will be able to see the feedback in the platform.FAQs
How does Windy identify when to request feedback?
How does Windy identify when to request feedback?
Windmill uses organizational network analysis to detect when colleagues have been working together. Windy follows up via Slack for timely and constructive feedback right after collaboration happens, making it more relevant and actionable.
How do employees receive feedback requests?
How do employees receive feedback requests?
Employees receive feedback requests from Windy directly in Slack as conversational messages. The requests are contextual and timely, based on recent collaboration patterns detected across your connected tools.