Lattice Product Updates

If Lattice is unable to access an employee during an HRIS, SFTP, or SCIM sync, we now display a new column in the import log to help you learn more about those employees that were skipped and any information we were able to collect. This makes it much easier to diagnose if there was a problem in the sync and quickly identify a fix.

Prior to this project, goal cycles were only able to be created manually. Most organizations use a schedule throughout the year (often quarterly) to build goal cycles, so this was a clear area for opportunity to reduce work for you. Now, on the goal cycle settings page, you can select your desired cadence (none, monthly, quarterly, fiscal quarters, halves) as well as an advance yearly setting. Then, Lattice will automatically add new goal cycles as time passes, allowing you to operationalize your goal-setting process without the effort of creating each new cycle.

Often, there are cases where company leaders would like to request feedback about anyone in the company so that they can ask about a specific employee’s performance. Now, Lattice admins can ask feedback about anyone at the company and configure specific permissions for certain role types to allow others to request feedback about others in their org outside a direct report relationship.

We know that you’re giving as much feedback as you can. But sometimes (and we’ve all been there) a request might simply stagnate. Now, you can politely decline feedback requests in your pending feedback tab. That request will then disappear from your pending requests as well as the requestor’s.

Lattice admins and managers can now export growth area reporting from Lattice into a CSV file so you can combine it with other data and reports outside of Lattice.

The weight is finally over (sorry). Weighted Goals allow you to customize how parent goal progress is impacted by its children. Set a uniform weight across key results (or sub-goals) and have each contribute events, or set unique weights and distribute the remainder automatically. Overall, this gives you much greater control over how you and your people accurately reflect progress on goals and communicate relative importance and priority.

When we released our Return to Work survey to the public, it instantly became our most-visited template we ever created. So we built the template directly into the Lattice Engagement template library to make getting it up and running even easier.

Lattice collects a huge amount of content from other product areas that help make the writing reviews experience easier. Now, reviewers in the context panel will have access to talking points and comments, private notes, and shared notes from 1:1 meetings with the reviewee.

Ever pushed “Strongly disagree” instead of “Strongly agree” by accident? Don’t worry. It happens to all of us! We’ve introduced an updated UI in Slack with clear buttons and a confirmation to ensure you’re giving the answer you intend to in Pulse surveys.

Growth areas are meant to give employees guidance toward their career objectives. To make that even easier, with growth area templates, Lattice admins can add new fields to growth areas, or pick from one our suggested Lattice Advisory Services-approved options.

We’ve made several helpful upgrades to the user experience when reviewing the results from an engagement survey. As you’re comparing data, it’s now much easier to see what you’re comparing and where the delta is coming from between scores. And when you’re using the heatmap view, click each question to navigate directly to their individual results page to explore more.

We've also made some helpful updates to how the context panel works for everyone to make the experience more seamless. Now, the context panel will recognize your role and permissions so you're always seeing the most relevant information as you use Lattice's tools.

Welcome to the future of the Lattice platform. Lattice’s Elevated Design is the entirely new way to experience Lattice. With the new navigation, Home page, People page, and more, we’ve made it easier to see a complete picture of your performance story in Lattice.

For especially large review cycles with lots of employees, there's a lot that goes on behind-the-scenes to make it happen. We now surface a helpful notification and progress indicator so you know when Lattice has completed launching your review cycle.

When building a survey, you now have an option to “add survey details” to add helpful instructions for participants. For example, you can reinforce the importance of why this survey is being sent, or give helpful instructions about more complex questions.

Previously we required using custom permissions to grant visibility in the current or previous review packets. Now, grant visibility quickly and easily by checking the box as you share the calibration group.

Of course, it’s common for multiple tracks to have similar competencies and expectations for levels. Now when you add a competency to a track, you’ll have the option to add expectations from other tracks using that competency with one click — no more copy-pasting from track to track!

We have updated our “Lattice Benchmark” scores for engagement surveys to now reflect survey data up to calendar year 2019. The previous scores have been renamed as the “Lattice 2019 Benchmark”.

To support continuous growth, we've added new notifications to help you stay up to date on your career journey. Now, Lattice will notify you when your manager adds or makes a change to a growth area so you can keep making progress. If you're a manager, Lattice will also notify you if your direct reports add or change their growth areas so you'll know how you can support them.

Naturally, even the best laid plans change. But we've got you covered. If you've published an action plan after an engagement survey, you can now make edits to focus areas, actions, and more to ensure it evolves with you and your team's needs.

The context panel in Reviews surfaces valuable information about the reviewee to make writing a breeze. Now, we've added previous Updates in the context panel so that, depending on your relationship with the reviewee, you can see their past work as you write their review.

Continue the conversation with employees about their Engagement survey feedback with anonymous comment replies. Dig into great ideas, learn more about employees’ points of view, or address issues directly — and employees stay anonymous through the whole process.

This is a small but mighty user experience improvement. As you're writing reviews, the text input box will now automatically expand with your response. No need to manually drag the box anymore!

If you currently use Sapling to manage your employees, you can now enable a Lattice employee integration from within Sapling. With this integration, you can automatically create and sync your employees as well as update user attributes with Lattice. This integration uses the SCIM standard, so it requires that your Lattice account also has SCIM enabled.