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Choose who can nominate peers

Add a peer feedback stage to use peer nominations. Nominations select the people who will give feedback about each reviewee assigned to that stage. Choose who can create nominations:
  • Everyone: Reviewees can nominate their own peers. Managers and cycle admins can also nominate peers for the people they manage.
  • Managers and cycle admins: Managers and cycle admins select the peers.
  • Cycle admins only: Only cycle admins select the peers.
Reviewers must be active employees and workspace members. They do not need to be reviewees in the cycle. A reviewee cannot nominate themselves, their direct manager, or their direct report.

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Choose whether nominations need approval

Under Nomination approval, choose one option:
  • No approval needed: Windmill sends peer review requests as soon as the nomination is added.
  • Approval required: Each nomination must be approved before Windmill sends the request.
Learn more about reviewing and approving nominations.

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Set nomination limits

  • Minimum nominations: A suggested minimum under Nominations per employee. A reviewee can have fewer nominations.
  • Maximum nominations: Additional nominations need cycle-admin approval when they exceed this limit.
  • Reviewer workload: Under Requests before approval is required, set how many requests one reviewer can receive before cycle-admin approval is required.
Windmill shows nomination counts and limit warnings. Windy also tells the person adding a nomination when approval is needed.

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Control revoking and visibility

  • Let managers revoke nominations: Cycle admins can always revoke nominations. Turn on this setting to let the employee’s manager revoke them too.
  • Show manager and cycle admin nominations to employees: Let employees see the nominations that their manager or a cycle admin added for them.
These settings apply to every peer feedback stage in the cycle.

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Control nomination chats

  • Nomination chats: When nominations open, Windy starts a chat with each person who can nominate peers. You cannot customize the nomination prompt.
  • Reminders: Near the deadline, Windy can remind chat recipients who have no pending or approved nominations.
  • Skip peer nomination chats: Select this on the peer stage before nominations open to collect nominations without Windy chats. People can still add nominations in Windmill.

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Set nomination and feedback dates

  • Separate windows: Set one set of dates for nominations and another for feedback.
  • Nomination deadline: This is a soft deadline. People who can nominate peers can still add nominations until the peer feedback deadline.
  • Feedback requests: An approved nomination gets a feedback request after feedback opens and at least 15 minutes have passed since approval.
  • Deadline digest: Deadline digest emails can include incomplete nominations and pending approvals.

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Reviewer recommendations

  • How Windmill suggests peers: Suggestions come from collaboration scores for the previous 90 days.
  • Number of suggestions: The dashboard shows up to seven suggestions. The Windy nomination chat can suggest up to 10. You cannot change these numbers.
  • Other reviewers: Suggestions are optional. People can search the employee directory and choose another eligible reviewer.
Learn more about nominating peer reviewers.

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Change settings during the cycle

After you create the cycle, open the peer nominations stage from Configure cycle > Overview and select Settings. Select Edit next to a setting to change it. You can also change Nomination chats and the nomination schedule there.