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Why we do weekly check-ins

Your weekly check-in is a touchpoint between you and your manager. In an async environment, deliberate effort and consistency matters. Completing your check-in each week helps keep your work visible, your priorities clear, and your manager equipped to support you.

Completing your weekly check-in

Each Friday, you’ll receive a notification to complete your weekly check-in. You can complete your check-in in 15Five or via Slack.

Each weekly check-in contains a few components:

• How did you feel at work since your last check-in? On a scale of 1-5, you rate your feeling of the overall week experience. This simple score provides a quick pulse check on your well-being and satisfaction.
• What did you achieve this week or move forward this week? Share the outcomes, deliverables, or progress that had the most impact this week
• Any challenges you’re facing? Here, you can share any challenges or roadblocks you're facing. These could be work-related obstacles, personal struggles, or areas where you could use some extra support or guidance.
• 🆕 👀 Priorities: A quick way to share what you’re focused on. This helps your manager stay aligned with your work, and gives skip-level managers visibility into where time and attention are going
  • More about priorities
• Recognition: Give timely recognition to anyone who you want to recognize. Simply @ mention that person and share why they earned a high five.

You’re expected to complete your check-in each week, but it’s okay if the length of your responses vary from week to week. It’s also okay to include pieces that might feel personal, if it feels appropriate to you; something going on in your personal life can absolutely impact your ability to show up at work, and check-ins are a great place to share any context that might feel relevant.

Your manager will respond to your weekly check-in each week, providing support, feedback, and value where possible. They may add check-in points to your next 1:1 if the item is better addressed synchronously, and you’re welcome to do the same

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Who can view your weekly check-in

Check-in visibility is hierarchical, meaning your direct manager and anyone above them in the hierarchy (that is, your manager's manager, their manager, etc.) can view your check-in.

You can mark individual answers private, only visible to you and your manager 🔒

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Getting the most out of your weekly check-ins

• You can add anything from your weekly check-in to an upcoming 1:1 if it feels like the topic may be better discussed live

• You can complete your check-in all at once, or you can think of it more of a journal and update it throughout the week. Completing it on an ongoing basis throughout the week makes your check-ins more holistic and less prone to recency bias.
• If you’re out of office on Friday, submit your check-in sooner 😊