Manage team engagement
Use this guide to explore Deputy's team engagement tools, including Kudos, Shift Pulse and Performance management.
Some of the features mentioned in this guide, such as Kudos+ and Shift Pulse+, require a Deputy HR subscription.
In this guide:
- Recognize team members with Kudos
- Collect team feedback with Shift Pulse
- Manage team performance
- Record manager observations with Journals
- Review engagement and performance reporting
- Review access and permissions
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Recognize team members with Kudos
Kudos is an employee recognition feature that makes it easy to recognize team members’ achievements using Deputy Messaging.
Read these articles learn how Kudos and Kudos+ work, including settings, limits, insights, and team engagement reporting.
Collect team feedback with Shift Pulse
Shift Pulse lets team members share optional end-of-shift feedback, helping you understand how your team is feeling.
Read these articles to learn how to set up and use Shift Pulse and Shift Pulse+, manage access, configure Shift Pulse+, and review engagement feedback.
- Introduction to Shift Pulse
- Team engagement - Shift pulse user access permissions
- Configuring Shift Pulse+ settings
- Shift Pulse Report - Reporting on employee engagement
Manage team performance
Performance management in Deputy allows you to write, review, and share performance notes directly with your team members.
Read these articles to learn how Performance management works, including configuring settings and creating mobile notes on the Deputy web app and mobile app.
- Introduction to Performance management
- Using Performance management in the mobile app
- User permissions for Performance management
Record manager observations with Journals
Learn how managers can use Deputy to record observations about a team member's shifts or performance.
Review engagement and performance reporting
Learn about Deputy's HR reports that help you identify trends in team member recognition, feedback, engagement, and manager observations.
- Introduction to HR Reports
- Kudos report
- Shift Pulse Report - Reporting on employee engagement
- Journals report
Review access and permissions
Read these articles to understand which team engagement tools your managers have access to and learn about Deputy HR.
- Default access levels and permissions: Check what each Deputy access level can access under Team member management and Team performance.
- Introduction to Deputy HR (AU UK US): Learn about the Deputy HR add-on. You can also find a detailed list of Deputy HR inclusions here.
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Deputy HR user access permissions: Review access to Deputy HR features.