Versionshinweise

We release new improvements to the Leapsome platform on a daily basis. This article contains information on new features, bug fixes or other note-worthy announcements (as of May 2018). Please do get in touch if you have any feedback or comments.

Planned for the next months

Below are some of the improvements planned for the coming quarters. There are some other (still somewhat stealthy :)) features we're excited to launch, too, so this list is not exhaustive.

• Meetings & 1:1s
  Improved calendar integrations
  
  
• Surveys
  More segmentation options (tenure etc.)
  Benchmarking
  
  
• Reviews
  Review analytics for managers (not just admins)
  Prescribing min / max of peer reviewers
  Custom cycle emails
  
  
• Instant feedback
  Improved Analytics
  
  
• Goals 
  Workflow management integrations
  Assigning key result ownership
  
  
• Taking the next step
  Stay tuned for more!

Past Releases

November 25th, 2019

• 1:1s
  You can now also comment on talking points - and as such track any meeting outcomes directly in the agenda.

November 22nd, 2019

• Surveys
  You can now follow up on anonymous comments by one of your survey respondents: If a survey owner responds to a comment, the author will be notified and can provide additional details, while remaining completely anonymous. This will enable you to do better follow-ups on your surveys, while protecting the anonymity of respondents.
  
  
• 1:1s
  We've redesigned the way we're displaying 1:1 agendas. Talking points are now nested underneath the respective agenda question, and meeting notes have a more prominent position. This should make larger meetings even more productive.

November 21st, 2019

• Surveys
  We're now displaying the overall participation rate of the current round.

November 19th, 2019

• Praise
  Praise becomes more universal: In addition to people, you can now also praise entire teams. An to do so, you can also upload your own badges.

November 18th, 2019

• Reviews
  You can now calculate custom review scores (with different weights for individual questions, skills, or goals) automatically in the tool. This will make calibration even easier.

November 12th, 2019

• If your using the OKR module, you can now reassign goals to a new parent via drag and drop in the goal tree (as an admin / super-admin).

November 11th, 2019

• Reviews
  Exports now contain the email and teams of the manager and the reviewee.
   
• 1:1s
  We have split the instant feedback and 1:1 tabs in two, providing a much cleaner and more beautiful interface for both of them. Additionally, you will now find upcoming 1:1 meetings on your home screen.

November 4th, 2019

• Praise
  Want to praise a collaborative effort? No problem - going forward, you can praise more than one person at the same time. We'll soon also add the option to give praise to entire teams.
  
  
• Goals
  Getting too many emails from your goals? Not any more: We've just introduced daily / weekly / bi-weekly or monthly goal digests which contain everything you need to know about recent updates to your goals. You can set the frequency of these in your profile settings.

October 31st, 2019

• Parlez-vous français? In that case, you can now use our platform in your own language. Simply go to the profile settings and switch the language.

October 28th, 2019

• Surveys
  To maximize participation in your surveys, you can now flexibly define how many reminders should be sent to people who haven't replied yet.

October 24th, 2019

• General UX
  Want to give feedback in style? No problem - you can now format text in most parts of the platform, add lists and even emojis!

October 17th, 2019

• Surveys
  Love the insights you get from our survey heatmaps? You can now export them, too.

October 16th, 2019

• Goals
  We've launched the first endpoints of our API. You can find the documentation here.
  
  
• Goals
  Goals can now be easily copied.
  
  
• Goals
  Done with your OKR quarter? You can now bulk-archive any selection of goals.

October 14th, 2019

• Goals
  Goal exports now include the contributor names.
  
  
• Goals
  Tags can now be frozen (you will still be able to view them, but not assign them to new goals) and re-ordered.
  
  
• Surveys
  We've started displaying the standard deviation of results in survey heatmaps.
  
  
• Surveys
  We've added a few sharing options: You can now share partial results with team leads, managers, or team members.

October 10th, 2019

• Surveys
  Survey data can now be anonymously segmented by performance quantiles - if your employees have been reviewed before, you will now be able to answer questions like "What do high performers think about our company?"

October 6th, 2019

• 1:1 meetings
  Past 1:1 meetings can now be exported via "My Settings".

October 4th, 2019

• We've redesigned the admin area, giving you faster access to all these flexible settings.

October 2nd, 2019

• Instant Feedback
  Badges can now be customized: Introduce your company values or certain behaviors you want to reinforce - and then put them onto our beautifully designed praise wall.

September 30th, 2019

• Reviews
  We implemented a number of UX improvements for the assessment screens (think flexible labels, an updated color scheme, and many other things).
  
  
• Surveys
  You can now customize the kick-off email for surveys (or keep using our optimized default message).

September 26th, 2019

• Instant Feedback
  We've launched our praise wall. You can now put a beautiful collection of recent (and rotating) praises on any screen in your office to share the good vibes with a wider audience.
  
  
• Reviews
  When asking for peer feedback, you can now add a custom message to personalize your request.
  
  Additionally, you can now decline peer feedback requests with a friendly message, if you think you're not the right person to give feedback (or don't find the time).

September 23rd, 2019

• Meetings / 1:1s
  Our calendar integration just went live! You can now import your Leapsome meetings (and talking points) into Google Calendar, Outlook or any other calendar app supporting calendar imports.

September 19th, 2019

• Admin
  The current list of Leapsome users can now be exported, allowing for easier bulk edits of your user base.

September 18th, 2019

• Surveys
  We've introduced an additional segmentation option for our heatmaps - you can now display results by manager of the respondents.

September 16th, 2019

• Surveys
  You can easily now clone surveys. In addition, comments / answers can now be filtered by specific teams.

September 14th, 2019

• Meetings and 1:1s
  You like our 1:1 feature and wanted to use it for larger groups, too? That's now possible! You can create meetings with additional participants and start collecting talking points for things such as OKR checkins, engineering retrospectives, stand-ups and many other things. Each participant will be notified via Slack or email before the meeting.
  
  
• Meetings and 1:1s
  To facilitate the above, you can now also assign titles to meetings. We've also added a quick-link to set up meetings easily.
  
  
• Feedback
  We've added quick-links to give or request feedback. Click the button, select the person you want to give feedback to, and write your message.

September 2nd, 2019

• Goals
  Comments / feedback on goals can now be removed by the sender.
  
  
• Goals
  As a new custom setting, you can now make goal tags mandatory.
  
  
• Admin settings
  Leapsome is a very flexible platform. With the latest release, we've moved many custom settings to the admin area, giving you even more flexibility to enable custom settings (such as hiding the goal tree, making tags mandatory, disabling public feedback, etc.)
  
  
• Reviews
  You can now export the results heatmap (as an Excel) to make bonus calculations easier.

August 30th, 2019

• Slack
  Our Slack integration is becoming much more powerful: You will now get most notifications (goal updates, surveys, review notifications, etc.) directly in Slack if the integration is enabled. Users can choose if they want email or Slack notifications, or both. 
  
  
• Goals
  Notifications on goal updates now contain additional details on recent changes.

August 27th, 2019

• Reviews
  We've simplified the template flow for managers and employees. If you delegate reviews to your managers (or if employees can set up their own reviews based on templates), they can now do so with just two clicks.

August 23rd, 2019

• 1:1s
  We've added manual cadences to 1:1 meetings, and further simplified the setup. Past meetings can now also be archived, so you don't have to wait for automatic archiving.

August 15th, 2019

• User Interface
  We've updated our user interface with new, beautiful illustrations. Hope you like them!

August 11th, 2019

• Goals
  Working in a large organization? You can now nest teams and apply combined filters.

August 9th, 2019

• Goals
  You can now combine tags to apply more granular filters.

August 7th, 2019

• Goals / Reviews / 1:1s
  We introduced proper date pickers (calendar previews) for all date fields in the app.
• Reviews
  Super-admins can now edit all review cycles (even if they're not an owner).

August 4th, 2019

• Goals and 1:1s
  URLs in goal descriptions and comments and 1:1 talking points / notes are now automatically converted into clickable links.

August 2nd, 2019

• Reviews
  We've improved search in the review history of employees ("Everybody" / "My team"). As an admin, you can now also directly jump into the respective cycle dashboard from that list.

July 29th, 2019

• Goals
  Key results / KPIs can now have a start value (in addition to the target value), facilitating tracking of ongoing projects.

July 27th, 2019

• Goals
  We have updated the design of our goal lists - they now include more visual progress indicators and allow for longer titles.

July 22nd, 2019

• Assessments
  A long-awaited update for our question builder setup just went live. Changes include more question types (mandatory comment, scale only, etc.), more reusable templates through automatically updated skills, a dynamic questionnaire preview, flexible scales across cycles, and more. Read all about it here.
  
  
• 1:1s
  You can now remove individual instances of your 1:1 meetings.

July 15th, 2019

• Analytics
  We have streamlined our analytics setup and moved assessment, feedback and 1:1 analytics to the corresponding feature tabs.
  
  
• Assessments
  Past assessment cycles are now closed automatically 2 months after the development talk deadline. You can find (and potentially re-open) closed cycles via a filter on your cycle list.
  
  
• Feedback
  We implemented a few nudges to encourage better feedback behavior, for example pointing out the need to provide an example if you give constructive feedback.

July 10th, 2019

• Assessments
  Assessment results can now be compared in "heatmaps". You can compare teams and / or individuals across cycles and categories or skills / competencies.

July 5th, 2019

• Assessments
  Managers can now easily share assessments with secondary / dotted-line managers. Sharing is possible as soon as an assessment is finalized (not necessarily shared).
  
  
• Assessments
  Those fancy charts on your assessment page (and on the Analytics tab) can now be exported as PNG-files, allowing you to print them or embed them in PPT presentations.

July 1st, 2019

• We implemented a number of UI tweaks; the most noticeable change is the use of new initial-based avatars.

June 22nd, 2019

• 1:1s
  We've simplified the way new 1:1s are set up and added an option to easily change the date.
  
  
• Reviews
  Past assessments are now displayed on your Home screen.

June 18th, 2019

• Surveys
  Heatmaps can now be filtered to only show certain teams / departments.

June 14th, 2019

• Surveys
  In addition to questions with a free-text answer and questions that combine a free-text answer with a 0-10 scale, you can now also set up questions that only contain a 0-10 scale.
  
  
• Surveys
  Admins can now see all surveys that were created in your company; if you don't own a survey, you will only be able to see its title and the owner - not the actual results.

June 11th, 2019

• Reviews
  Based on cycle templates (see below), admins can now set up automated review cycles, such as probation period reviews or decentralized annual reviews. Learn more.

June 6th, 2019

• Reviews
  Admins can now create reusable cycle templates and optionally enable managers or employees to copy them for their teams. Here's how it works.
  
  
• Reviews
  Within the cycle setup, you can now preview a questionnaire for a specific team and answer perspective (such as peer / manager / direct report / self assessment).

June 3rd, 2019

• Goals
  We've extended goal editing rights for admins. If you're an admin, you can now fix typos or reassign goals, as long as they are not completely private.

June 2nd, 2019

• Goals
  We now automatically archive goals of employees that left your company. You can still access, reactivate or reassign them if needed.

 May 29th, 2019

• Access right management 
  You can now assign custom rights to specific teams created in Leapsome, giving you even more control over who can see and use which module. Here's how to set it up.
  
  
• Reviews
  With the above, you can now include external 360 reviewers (who will only have access to the reviews module).
  
  
• User provisioning
  We extended our SCIM integration. You can now also synchronize your employee database via Okta.

May 27th, 2019

• Reviews
  Improved notifications for peer assessments: If a new peer was added (and doesn't need to be confirmed by the manager), he or she will now immediately receive a notification.

May 25th, 2019

• Goals
  Owners of child goals are now displayed in the alignment section.

May 21st, 2019

• 1:1 meetings
  We made it easier to organize your meetings: Talking points can now be reorganized and moved between sections via our new drag & drop functionality.

May 20th, 2019

• Surveys
  You can now combine filters to filter out specific comments from a survey round.

May 16th, 2019

• Goals
  Insights from the new insights dashboard can now also be easily exported to Excel.
  
  
• Goals
  The goal tree now automatically expands as you add more goals.

May 14th, 2019

• Goals
  We're introducing a revamped goal insights dashboard - you can now see the overall progress history of individual team members, departments or the entire company at a glance.

May 10th, 2019

• Goals
  (Optional feature): If you want to use weightings on individual goals (instead of just key results), we can now enable this feature for you - just reach out to our customer success team.
  
  
• Surveys
  We started displaying a timeline for the NPS equivalent for each question in each survey round. 

May 7th, 2019

• Feedback Requests
  We've updated our feedback & 1:1s dashboard. You can now trace your previous feedback requests and see the context of current feedback requests right on the dashboard.

May 2nd, 2019

• Goals
  History: Goals now have a visible update history / timeline. You will also see handy indicators on the overall or key result progress.

April 30th, 2019

• Goals
  Alignment: We're now displaying parent and child goals of any goal in the respective goal view, if you have aligned them according to the OKR logic.

April 25th, 2019

• Goals
  Admins can now remove any goal and update team / company goals by default.

April 23rd, 2019

• Surveys
  For each survey topic, you can now easily access the questions influencing that topic.

April 22nd, 2019

• Surveys
  We're now displaying the number of answers per team in survey heat maps.

April 19th, 2019

• Goals
  Navigating between goals has become much easier. Each goal and filter view can now also be bookmarked via individual links. We also implemented a few UX improvements and a button to unlock / reactivate previously locked goals.

April 14th, 2019

• Reviews
  Navigation between questions when writing an assessment has been improved. We're now also displaying a hint to show that answers have been auto-saved.

April 12th, 2019

• Goals
  You can now display filtered goal trees (in addition to the full tree). Simply select a filter and click the corresponding button at the top of the view.

March 31st, 2019

• Optional features
  Cascading goals (and the goal tree) and the feedback mentor feature can now optionally be disabled.

March 25th, 2019

• Reviews
  We've improved the setup of new cycles and an option to show 360° assessment results (peer or direct report reviews) to participants directly after they were finalized.

March 18th, 2019

• Goals
  We've improved the appearance of the goal tree. Especially larger companies with more goals will note have a more condensed, easier to view goal tree.
  
  

March 12th, 2019

• Surveys
  Admins can now customize the survey round duration (the period during which survey rounds remain open for answers) and the survey anonymity threshold (the number of respondents required to show a result / segment result).

March 11th, 2019

• Feedback
  Feedback messages and private notes can now be deleted in self-service by the sender.

March 8th, 2019

• Reviews
  We improved the messaging around the visibility of different review components. All participants can now access an even easier overview of the visibility of their answers to different people in the process.

March 6th, 2019

• Payments
  For our European customers, we now offer the convenient option to pay the subscription via SEPA direct debit.

March 4th, 2019

• Development profiles
  Each user can now easily access their personal development profile on their Home screen. You can switch between different review results and continuous feedback. Data can be shown for individual skills or aggregated categories.
  
  

February 27th, 2019

• Surveys
  The survey overview now shows the date of the last survey round with valid results for each question / category.

February 24th, 2019

• Feedback & Praise
  You can now disable the Praise feature or disable continuous feedback on skills for your account - please send us an email if interested.

February 21st, 2019

• Surveys
  You're getting a lot more control on who can see your survey results - the platform now allows you define general visibility for a survey (all results including heatmaps, just aggregates, only direct reports) or define custom visibility settings for specific people.

February 19th, 2019

• Surveys
  To give you better insights into your results, we're introducing survey heatmaps that allow simplified segmentation of your results (starting with department / team data, other segmentation options will follow soon).
  
  

February 18th, 2019

• Surveys
  You can now re-order the questions when setting up a survey, allowing you to make better use of our question rotation feature.
  
  
• Surveys
  We have simplified the selection of the kickoff / send date for new one-off or pulse surveys.
  
  
• Surveys
  A new dashboard provides a quick overview of question and topic results and a breakdown into positive / neutral and negative answers.
  
  

February 13th, 2019

• Private notes
  Ever been in a situation where you wanted to write down some feedback for a colleague to talk about later? You can now do so with private notes. These will live on the profile of your colleague and can also be resurfaced during reviews.
  
  

February 12th, 2019

• Dismissing notifications
  You can now easily dismiss notifications and feedback requests.

Februrary 9th, 2019

• Search
  We have moved the search field to the navigation bar, allowing you to search colleagues from anywhere in the platform.
  
  
• Feedback & 1:1s
  We have extended the Feedback tab to also show your pending feedback requests and upcoming 1:1 meetings.
  
  

February 6th, 2019

• Reviews
  To give you more flexibility, peer nominations can now be edited by the reviewee (before confirmation), the manager (after confirmation) or the admin until review talks start. Peers who started their review cannot be removed.
  
  
• Reviews
  To streamline the manager experience and use time more effectively, manager review notifications are now sent out when a cycle is kicked off. If managers have access to peer reviews or self-assessments, they will be alerted of incomplete input.

February 4th, 2019

• Reviews
  In addition to a visual summary of your skill evaluations, you can now also group them by category and display them as a radar or bar chart. 
  
  
• Goals
  To easily identify and distinguish your goals, we added beautiful goal icons. 

February 1st, 2019

• Leapsome has a new look: We polished and streamlined our interface, added a few more colours and friendly, visual indicators. Very excited about this, so please let us know what you think!
  
  

January 28th, 2019

• Goals
  We made it easier to assign goals: Admins can now assign goals to anyone and change a goal's key manager.
  
  
• 1:1s
  We ironed out a small glitch that prevented some incomplete talking points from being copied to the next meeting. Sorry about that.

January 25th, 2019

• Reviews
  We've added another visualization layer for your review data: You can now draw timelines to trace the development of teams or individuals across cycles - at an aggregated, category or skill level.
  
  

January 23rd, 2019

• Reviews
  To give you more context while writing your reviews, you can now also access a person's goals and notes from your 1:1 meetings while writing your review about a team member. Previous feedback is displayed in line with each skill your evaluating.
  
  

January 22nd, 2019

• Analytics
  The second report of our new analytics module went live: To easily understand your team's training needs, you can now compare team members across flexibly defined dimensions on a scatter plot - even across cycles.
  
  
  
  

January 17th, 2019

• Analytics
  We started the long-awaited rollout of our cross-cycle analytics module. You can now create skill distribution snapshots across various cycles - and even compare them across teams or individuals (visibility is always depend on the settings of each cycle).
  
  

January 14th, 2019

• Goals
  We introduced additional visibility options for all goal classes, giving you even more control on who can see and edit goals or ORKs.

January 11th, 2019

• Goals
  We've changed the way that we display our goal tree and now show all visible goals by default - that makes it easier to quickly understand the big picture.
  
  

January 8th, 2019

• Reviews
  To improve the review setup experience, we now allow you to add newly created skills to existing or cloned cycles without having to re-create the cycle.

January 7th, 2019

• Reviews
  In reviews with a peer component, participants can now review (and during the nomination phase: adjust) their peer nominations on the "Done" tab.

January 4th, 2019

• Reviews
  We've improved the review setup process, allowing you to target all questions and skills to different reviewer groups more effectively. This greatly enhances your ability to compare answers from different subgroups in our analytics module.
  
  
  
  
• Reviews
  Just like in the feedback module, you can now use a continuous scale in your performance or 360 reviews.
  
  

• Goals
  We've streamlined the goals setup page, guiding you through the setup process of goals and objectives more effectively.

December 18th, 2018

• Surveys
  Exports can now be triggered directly in the platform (instead of filing a support request with our customers success team).
  
  
• Reviews
  We started displaying some additional helpful information for cycle admins (warning of users without assigned managers, and showing the date of the last automatic reminder).
  
  

December 17th, 2018

• 1:1 meetings
  We added an auto-save functionality for meeting notes and made it easier to add new talking points (just hit Enter to save).
  
  
• Reviews
  If you're working with our new skill levels feature, you can now display all relevant levels for a skill directly in your review (allowing you to understand what needs to be done to advance to the next level).

December 14th, 2018

• 1:1 meetings
  For more context in your recurring 1:1 meetings, you can now display current goals and recent feedback of meeting participants next to your talking points.
  
  

December 11th, 2018

• Profile / Home
  If you have a direct reports, you will now find a "team" box on your home tab, allowing you to easily navigate to their profiles.
  
  
• Praise
  You can now include beautiful "badges" to highlight outstanding achievements in your team - celebrate small wins in style!
  

December 10th, 2018

• Profile / General UX
  We've cleaned up the UX of the "Home" tab, added a new box containing your completed reviews and implemented a new "fresh" look.

December 6th, 2018

• Reviews
  Skipping a question becomes a more proactive and thoughtful process: Optional scaled review questions now have a "N/A" (not applicable) button to skip the answer. 

December 1st, 2018

• Surveys
  We've started displaying an NPS equivalent for quantitative survey questions. 

November 28th, 2018

• Goals
  As an admin, you can now define who can create team goals (admins only vs. any team member). Visibility can also be restricted to team members.

November 26th, 2018

• Reviews
  Setting up the review process has become easier. We're adding more flexibility around the peer nomination & approval process (manager approval can now be set as  optional).

November 24th, 2018

• User provisioning
  We've upgraded our excel import. You can now include multiple teams / subgroups per person and assign seniority roles via the excel import.

November 21st, 2018

• Feedback & Reviews
  We've upgraded our competency frameworks with seniority roles and skill levels. You can now collect more granular feedback - from intern to CEO! Read more.

November 14th, 2018

• User management
  We have started adding "smart teams": As a first step, you can now use a team containing all users with manager responsibilities to assign skills and run reviews.
  
  
• General UX
  We improved the user interface in several areas. The most visible change are input fields and dropdowns that are now more visible.

November 6h, 2018

• 1:1s
  You can now edit previous 1:1 meetings to tick off that point you talked about or add meeting notes after the meeting. We've also simplified navigation between meetings.
  
  
• Goals
  We got rid of the (sometimes slightly confusing) top-level metric. Goals can now be easily set up with a default metric or more granular key result metrics.

November 1st, 2018

• Reviews
  For 360° reviews, you can now optionally put reviewees in the driver seat and allow them to control visibility of their results (instead of sharing it automatically with managers)
  
  
• 1:1s 
  Meetings are now automatically archived after your meeting if you have enabled recurring 1:1 meetings. We have also simplified the creation of talking points.
  
  
• Goals
  We have further simplified goal filters so you can find relevant goals more easily.

October 25th, 2018

• Reviews
  When setting up new cycles, you can now - in addition to nominated peer reviewers- automatically add all direct reports as reviewers, add custom questions for direct report and segment results by answers from direct reports.

October 17th, 2018

• 1:1 Meetings
  We've added customizable meeting / update questions to your 1:1 meetings. Talking points can now be easily structured, allowing for an even better meeting flow.

October 15th, 2018

• Reviews
  It's become easier to set up project feedback, where a temporary (project) manager assumes the role of the manager. Direct (line) managers will still have access to the results.

October 11th, 2018

• Goals & Reviews
  In an important move to combine two of our modules, we now enable you to easily include and review personal goals in your performance reviews. 

October 9th, 2018

• Reviews
  Administrators / owners can now remove participants from current cycles in self-service, support requests are no longer needed.
  
  
• Reviews
  Notifications and reminders to all participants now contain deadlines defined in the cycle setup.
  
  
• Reviews
  The employee review history now contains the aggregate manager score to enable a quick overview.

October 4th, 2018

• Reviews
  Individual reviews (containing all perspectives) can now be exported as PDFs, allowing easy printing and discussion during the review talks. 

October 1st, 2018 

• Admin features
  We're introducing a much more granular permission management: Account owners can now assign the right to create reviews or surveys, view all managed goals or reviews, or enable cascading manager access to reviews and goals to administrators.

September 25th, 2018

• User Profiles
  Employee profiles received an update: Active and draft goals are now displayed more prominently on individual user profiles, along with feedback, 1:1 meetings and skills. 
  
  
• Reviews
  We're introducing a new review mode: If you want, you can allow any employee to proactively give feedback during a 360° review for selected participants.

September 21st, 2018

• Reviews
  In addition to the raw answer set of completed reviews, you can now also export aggregate results for self-evaluations, peer reviews and manager reviews.
  
  
• Reviews
  Owners / administrators can now add or update participants in active review cycles; as long as the corresponding reviewers haven't started their reviews, you can even modify or replace 360° reviewers.
  
  
• Reviews
  We have simplified the review setup - in the "Questions" settings you will only see questions that match the teams of the currently selected participants.

September 17th, 2018

• Goals
  We have added a goal statistics dashboard that summarizes and highlights important statistics for your current selection of goals.

September 12th, 2018

• Goals
  The goal tree has a new look and now shows progress of all goals at a glance. Even easier to get a quick overview of where your team stands!

September 4th, 2018

• Reviews
  Questions and answers have received a small design update - it's now even easier to compare requirements and answers from different reviewers in the overview.

August 29th, 2018

• 1:1s
  On the "Analytics" tab, you will now find "1:1 Analytics". Admins and managers (for their reports) can see who is meeting whom and how often, allowing them to nudge people to meet more regularly. The content of the these meetings obviously remains private. Stay tuned for further improvements to this feature.

August 28th, 2018

• Manager access
  Managers now optionally have cascading access to managed goals and reviews further down in the reporting chain (if Eric manages Tim and Tim manages Jane, Eric will also see Jane's goals and reviews) . You can turn this off in the admin settings.

August 25th, 2018

• User provisioning
  We've launched our BambooHR integration. You can now easily synchronize your entire BambooHR user base with Leapsome and keep it up to date at all times.

August 23th, 2018

• Surveys
  You now see more information on your different surveys at a glance as an administrator of your account - making it easier to see what's going on.

August 21st, 2018

• Surveys
  You can now define custom topics in your surveys - allowing you to aggregate question results and define better survey rotations.

August 15th, 2018

• Surveys
  Smart question rotation: When setting up a survey, you can now enable question rotation and cover a limited number of questions / topics per survey round.

August 10th, 2018

• Surveys
  In addition to our (by default) anonymous surveys, you can now also run non-anonymous surveys - ideal for check-ins or status updates with your team.

August 8th, 2018

• Feedback and Praise
  We've simplified the Feedback feature (you can now directly see structured dimensions) and given our Praise feature a more prominent position on the team overview.

August 7th, 2018

• Reviews
  360° reviewer nominations can now be edited by the participant / manager (depending on your settings) until the peer review phase has been kicked off.

August 6th, 2018

• General UI
  Leapsome can now be used in other languages, starting with German - to switch the user language, simply go to "Edit my profile" and choose your preferred language.

July 25th, 2018

• Goals
  You can now export any goal selection - including drafts or frozen goals, and key results - to Excel, and run additional analysis.

July 23rd, 2018

• Goals
  Going forward, you will summary statistics for each goal list - these allow you to easily get an overview of where you stand, what's on track, and what's not.

July 19rd, 2018

• Goals
  We've improved the filter and search functionality for goals: You can now do combined searches for teams, users, tags, titles and states.

July 9th, 2018

• Reviews
  Powerful analytics update: You can now analyze and compare review results and distributions across teams, managers, individuals - aggregated by question or category.

June 27th, 2018

• Goals
  Navigation improvements: You can now preview the key results of individual objectives from the objectives list. 

June 20th, 2018

• Reviews
  We're doing lots of groundwork for powerful analytics capabilities in the reviews section. Stay tuned and get in touch with support if you want to learn more.

June 11th, 2018

• User provisioning
  You can now provision your users / groups to Leapsome via Azure Active Directory, Okta, OneLogin and other identity providers supporting the SCIM protocol

June 6th, 2018

• Goals
  We've fine-tuned the visibility / editing rights for goals and objectives. Users can now see, modify or comment on goals the contribute to.

June 5th, 2018

• Reviews
  You can now use pre-defined team skills in your reviews; once defined, we will collect feedback for these skills for participants from specific teams / departments

May 23rd, 2018

• Reviews
  We tweaked the automatic reminder algorithm: Reminder frequency now decreases over time, making sure we don't bother you infinitely with your open tasks

May 16th, 2018

• Goals
  We've launched new goal flags, allowing you to flag your goals as "on track", "needs discussion", "off track". Filter by these flags to make your check-in sessions more effective.

May 14th, 2018

• Reviews
  Anonymous peer reviews: For new cycles, you can now optionally hide the peer reviewer's name from the participant, manager or even owner of the review cycle. 

May 11th, 2018

• SSO
  You can now set up SAML - based single sign-on for your company with GSuite, Okta, OneLogin, Active Directory and other identity providers.

May 10th, 2018

• Gmail integration
  We've updated the UI of our Gmail integration to make it compatible with the new Gmail design.

May 8th, 2018

• Reviews
  We introduced an auto-save functionality to save progress when writing reviews.
• General UI
  Implemented some improvements to the responsive (mobile) design.

May 6th, 2018

• Reviews
  We've improved the process indicators in the admin view of review cycles

May 4th, 2018

• Goals
  Admins can now create goal tags that can be applied to any goal in your company; allows you to sort goals by cycle (e.g. "Q1 2018") or function (e.g. "Learning goals")