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15Five<\/a>, the AI-powered performance management platform that drives action and impact for thousands of organizations, today announced the launch of Kona by 15Five at its virtual event,\u00a0Next<\/a>. The launch follows 15Five\u2019s January\u00a0acquisition<\/a>\u00a0of Kona.<\/p>\n

An AI-powered coach for managers, Kona joins virtual meetings and provides personalized, privacy-conscious coaching and enablement in the flow of work. <\/p>\n

Check out Kona by 15Five<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kona uses data from 15Five such as performance reviews and engagement surveys alongside the context it builds over time to help people managers continuously level up across a wide range of critical skillsets \u2013 from leading more effective meetings to navigating difficult performance conversations. Kona automatically measures changes in manager behavior so HR leaders can see what\u2019s working and what needs rethought in an ongoing way.<\/p>\n

According to Gallup\u2019s\u00a0State of the Global Workplace 2025 Report<\/a>, global employee engagement fell to 21% in 2024, with managers experiencing the largest drop. Gallup has\u00a0previously highlighted<\/a>\u00a0how engagement of managers strongly correlates with that of their teams, with a 70% variance in team engagement being attributed to managers. This underscores the role managers play in fostering a positive work environment, promoting growth, and maximizing performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHR leaders know that managers are the critical lynchpin for maximum employee performance, engagement and retention,\u201d said Jim Morrisroe, 15Five\u2019s CEO. \u201cFailing to equip them with personalized enablement tools and training minimizes the role they play in increasing performance, engagement, and retention on their teams to drive organizational success. Kona enables organizations to deploy personalized manager enablement at scale, helping HR teams further unlock the impact of manager effectiveness, and early adopters have already seen meaningful results in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a growing company, we\u2019re promoting rockstar individual contributors into management roles, but we can\u2019t scale traditional coaching fast enough,\u201d said Jenn Sobocinski, Senior Director of People and Culture at\u00a0ReUp Education<\/a>, an early adopter of Kona. \u201cKona is helping us support those new managers in real time, with feedback that helps them adjust and grow immediately. It\u2019s also changed how I run my own meetings. This kind of continuous, in-the-flow coaching is exactly what fast-growing companies need.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard CHROs and CEOs clearly: they need managers to be the drivers of business success,\u201d said Sid Pandiya, 15Five\u2019s General Manager of Manager Products and former CEO of Kona. \u201cBut being a manager is more complicated than ever before. Instead of one-size-fits-all solutions that HR hopes will work, 15Five\u2019s manager products are personalized based on data such as performance reviews, engagement surveys, and manager effectiveness measurements, so everyone can focus on what matters most. Even in the early days of building Kona by 15Five, we\u2019ve seen how personalization powered by data, combined with continuous measurement, enables HR to see where efforts are working and where they need to double down.\u201d<\/p>\n

15Five helps HR teams drive real change at scale with easy-to-use performance reviews and surveys, including engagement, eNPS, manager effectiveness, and onboarding, actionable insights about where to focus and why, and manager products that address hot spots to drive impact.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Kona by 15Five<\/a> and how 15Five helps HR leaders, managers<\/a>, and organizations drive business results.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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