5 karma · joined November 6, 2020
We want to offer a non-binary view of anonymous feedback. We agree that we want to get to a organization where everyone shares their feedback publicly but it takes time and trust to get to that stage and anonymous feedback can act as the training wheels to help people, especially minorities, develop that trust.
Since you asked about particular use cases: Use Case 1: You just did a presentation about the benefit of Google Cloud run to the server chapter. You heard some praise after the call but you want to request feedback.
You use inkrement to /request feedback from server chapter slack channel about the presentation, what did you do well, what were some areas you could have done better.
You instantly get feedback from colleagues that will help you in your next presentation
Use case 2: You have an intern. He has been working with a bunch of teams. Since he is not Ft, he doesn't get an official review, so you use inkrement /request-feedback to ask feedback on his behalf from people he has worked with to understand his strengths and areas of growth. Before finishing his internship term, you share the feedback so that he can grow.
You are right, feedback is much more effective when its requested, and we hope that people on slack will have an easier time asking for feedback on their work so they can continuously improve.
This tool isn't meant solely for managers. Our goal is that Individual contributors can use inkrement to get feedback from their peers on their work. They can choose to share the feedback with their managers if they want.
We hope that this will make the feedback process more objective rather than be subjective on the manager's whim who may not know what you are doing and be impacted by recency bias.
Peer feedback has been instrumental in our career growth but traditional feedback mechanisms are slow, cumbersome, and outdated.
Annual or semi annual feedback cycles are WAY TOO slow. Arcane HR software makes the feedback process difficult, frustrating and ineffective.
We wanted to improve on this process by making feedback part of the everyday conversation, and since much of the conversation lives in Slack, we wanted to enable real time, continuous feedback for everyone.
You can use Inkrement to give light-weight, informal feedback on people's presentations, projects, or even performance. Use it to give praise but more importantly, use it to give constructive criticism to help them grow incrementally.
Request feedback from multiple channels or people in one go. No need to ping or remind them, we automatically send reminders on slack. If you do have annual reviews, then download all your feedback to easily have over 12 months of information and avoid recency bias.
We hope you take inkrement for a spin and use it to get feedback for yourselves, or your team members and grow incrementally every week and month
We look forward to learn from the maker community here and are open and eager to get YOUR feedback to help us grow as makers.