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Feedback helps your team collect useful observations throughout the year. Members can give or request feedback with Windy. Admins can also enable Windy prompted feedback.

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Feedback types

  • Proactive feedback is always available. Any member can ask Windy to give feedback about another active member.
  • Requested feedback lets a member ask for feedback about themselves. A manager can also request feedback about a person in their reporting line, including a skip-level report. You can request feedback about a specific topic. Windmill uses these requests when it selects future outreach, but fulfillment is not guaranteed.
  • Windy prompted feedback is optional. Windy uses recent collaboration signals from your connected systems to select people who can give useful feedback. Windy then asks them for feedback in Slack.

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Set up Windy prompted feedback

You must be an Admin or HR Admin to change Feedback settings. Your company must also have an active Slack integration.
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Open Feedback settings

Go to Settings > Feedback.
2

Enable Windy prompted feedback

Turn on Windy prompted feedback.
3

Select employees

Select the employees who can receive prompts from Windy.
Proactive feedback and requested feedback remain available when Windy prompted feedback is off.

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How Windy prompted feedback works

1

Review collaboration signals

Windmill uses activity from your connected systems to understand recent collaboration. Connected systems provide context. Windmill does not import feedback from them automatically.
2

Select a feedback provider

Windmill selects a person who can give useful feedback about the collaboration.
3

Ask for feedback

Windy sends the selected person a message in Slack.
4

Save the response

Windmill saves the response and makes it available according to the Feedback visibility rules.
Connect more integrations to give Windmill more context about team collaboration. This can improve the selection of feedback prompts.

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Give feedback

You do not have to wait for a prompt. Start a conversation with Windy in Slack or in the Windmill Dashboard.
Hey @Windy, can I give feedback about [person’s name]?
Windy guides you through the feedback process. You can also ask to give feedback about multiple people.

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Request feedback

You can ask Windy to request feedback about you from a specific person. If you are a manager, you can also request feedback about a person in your reporting line.
@Windy, can you request feedback about [report’s name] from [person’s name] about [topic]?
Windy records the request and uses it when Windmill selects future outreach. This service is best effort. Windmill does not guarantee that the person will receive or complete a request.

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Feedback visibility

In the standard Feedback setup, submitted feedback is visible to the person who gave it and to the direct manager of the person it is about. The person who gives feedback cannot select a different audience. The person the feedback is about does not see it directly. The direct manager can see the feedback on the employee profile and in Catch Me Up. Feedback can also help the direct manager write a manager review. Private writing suggestions stay private unless the manager adds that content to a review answer. The answer then follows the performance review visibility rules. Positive feedback can also become a Shoutout. Windy asks for explicit consent before it shares the feedback in a public Shoutouts channel. When Windy asks you for feedback, the message states who can see your response.

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FAQs

Windmill uses recent collaboration signals from connected systems. Windy then asks a person who can give useful feedback about that work.
Windy sends feedback prompts as direct messages in Slack. Employees reply in the message thread.
No. Windmill records the request and uses it when it selects future outreach. Fulfillment is best effort.