Check-ins and kudos
A check-in is a regular one-to-one meeting (a 1:1) between you and your manager. Kudos is a quick way to thank a colleague for something they did.
Who can take part in their own check-ins and give kudos: every member, for themselves.
Your check-ins
Section titled “Your check-ins”Open the menu and select Work → Check-ins. You see:
- Upcoming: your next check-ins.
- Schedules: how often you meet, if you have regular 1:1s.
- My open actions: things you agreed to do.
- History: your past check-ins. Select Open to read one.
Set up regular 1:1s
Section titled “Set up regular 1:1s”Either you or your manager can suggest regular 1:1s. Your manager confirms them.
- Select Propose regular 1:1s.
- Choose How often: weekly, every two weeks or monthly. Leave it empty to use your organisation’s default.
- Choose the date of the First check-in.
- Choose an Agenda template if you want one. It gives you prompts to start the agenda from.
- Select Save.
Your manager is asked to confirm. They may change how often you meet or the first date. Once confirmed, Cadre plans each next check-in for you. Either of you can stop the schedule.
To meet once, outside the schedule, select Plan a check-in.
During a check-in
Section titled “During a check-in”Open a check-in to see:
- Agenda: talking points either of you adds before or during the meeting. Tick a point when it’s done. Points not done move to your next check-in.
- Shared notes: notes you both read. HR can read them too.
- My private note: a note only you can read. See below.
- Actions: what you agreed to do, who does it, and by when. An action stays on every later check-in until it is done.
- Goals: your progress on your goals this cycle.
After the meeting, either of you can select Mark as held. You can also Move it to another day, or Skip it.
Your private note is yours alone
Section titled “Your private note is yours alone”My private note is read by you and nobody else: not your manager, not HR, and not Cadre’s support team. Cadre records that you wrote a private note, but never its words.
No email or notification ever carries anything typed into a check-in.
Open the menu and select Work → Kudos. The Feed shows kudos people have given. Given by me shows yours.
Give kudos
Section titled “Give kudos”- Select Give kudos.
- Under To, type a colleague’s name and choose them. You can choose up to 10.
- Under What for, say what they did.
- Choose a Company value if you want to, such as Teamwork.
- If your organisation lets you choose, pick who can read it: Everyone here (the kudos feed), or Only them and their manager.
- Select Send kudos.
Receiving kudos
Section titled “Receiving kudos”When someone gives you kudos, Cadre tells you who gave it, and links to it. The message itself is never in the email. Kudos you received also appear on My profile.
You can react to a kudos, or open it to add a comment.
If a kudos is not right
Section titled “If a kudos is not right”If a kudos you can read is offensive or wrong, select Report and say what is wrong. HR decides whether to hide it. The person who gave it is not told who reported it.