What's New in 2021?

The Ambition team works to improve our platform every day. These updates include everything from major improvements, feature requests from our customers, and bug fixes.

Check out our 2020 Release Notes here!

April 20, 2021

🎁 New:

• Goal Exports: Goals can now be exported individually or in bulk (up to 1000 at a time).
  • Individual Goal Exports include all goal details, including user contribution.
  • Goals can be exported on the Manage Goals page or from the Dashboard.

• Competition Exports: Competitions (challenges & fantasy) can now be exported. These export include:
  • Individual Challenge Export Includes: 
    • Challenge Details (start, end, number of competitors, last processed time, etc.)
    • Score Configuration
    • Scores & Prizes
    • Scheduled Time Off
    • Comments
  • Fantasy Season Export Includes:
    • Challenge Details (start, end, number of competitors, last processed time, etc.)
    • Score Configuration
    • Final Results (win/loss record, points for, points against, streak)
    • Scores (including regular season and playoff matchups)

• Account Last Active Date: Within the user directory page (Administration > Users), a new column has been added to show when a user last logged in to their Ambition account. 

🛠️  Improvements:

• Time Frame Filter for Managing Goal: The Manage Goals page now has a Time Frame filter, which allows users to find goals that were in progress during a specific time period. This filter includes presets like Today, This Week, etc., but can also be customized to search for custom time frames via a calendar selector.

• Account Last Active Date: A new column as been added to the User Directory page (Administration > Users) which shows when each Ambition user logged into their account.

April 6, 2021

🎁 New:

• Automate Metric Snapshots in Coaching: With Ambition Coaching, you can automatically embed and review employee performance metrics directly in your check-ins! This new agenda item allows Managers to pre-select a Metric, Time Frame, and supporting question to review during each coaching session. Click here to learn more!

🐛  Bugs:

• Goal Navigation: In the primary navigation, Goal>Create is now shown for users that have the ability to create a goal for all, subordinates, and themselves. Goal, Manage is now shown for users that can edit a goal for all and subordinates.

March 9, 2021

🛠️  Improvements:

• Export Questions & Answers from a Coaching Program: The Program CSV download has been improved to include all related rating categories and agenda items from the corresponding check-ins. This CSV includes each check-in's:
  • Each Individual Rating Categories
  • Total Average Rating
  • Attribution Metrics
  • Each Agenda Item & the Corresponding Response

From the Manage Coaching page, click Programs, Options, then Export CSV.

February 23, 2021

🛠️  Improvements:

• Coaching Program Due Dates: When creating a new coaching Program, the form allows managers to specify when subsequent Check-Ins are due. Choices are When the Next Check-In Begins (the previous, hardcoded choice), and After [1-30] Days. 
  • Example Use Case: I want our monthly recurring check-in to be due within the first 7 days of the month, not the end of the month.
  • The default due date for a program's check-in will remain as "before the next scheduled check-in." 
  • Current programs can be edited to configure a custom due date.

• TV Branding - Accent Color Selector: The TV Branding supports an accent color. The HEX color code input field now has a dynamic color selector. This input is supported by Chrome, Safari, & Edge but not Internet Explorer.

• Accolade Audit Logs: The Manage Accolade page now displays audit logs, including Created By, Last Modified Time, and Last Modified By fields.

• Goal Audit Logs: The Manage Goals page now displays audit logs, including: Created By, Last Modified Time, and Last Modified By fields.

• Goal Creation - Redirect Flow: A snackbar is presented on Goal creation that gives the user links to view the Goal (if a single Goal was created) and to manage all Goals. If the creator remains on the page, they can create a new goal based on the previous goal's inputs.

• Notification Email Toggle: A toggle for "All" has been added to the User Settings > Notifications page to assist in managing the list notifications. A save button has been added at the top to "Update Subscriptions."

February 9, 2021

🎁  New:

• Slack Command for Coaching Notes: Invoking the /ambition note slash command will allow a Manager to create a coaching note from a Slack channel or direct message.
  • The Shared note will be posted to the Recipient's coaching timeline (on their personal dashboard) and will alert the user via email.
  • A Private note will only be visible by the creator of the note, and will not notify the Recipient.

Click here to learn more.

🛠️  Improvements:

• Improved Styling for Check-ins & Action Plans: This update unifies the styling across check-ins & action plans. These new headers are both represented in a coaching timeline view and in the card view. This update provides:
  • Insight into the next check-in event date (Meeting: Tuesday, Sep. 15 @ 4:00PM EDT)
  • Profile photos of all participants (Manager, Co-Coaches, & Employee)
  • Visibility into the current status (Pending Approval)

• Date Field Filters: The metric builder within an integration now supports the ability to filter date fields as “is blank” or “is not blank”.
  

🐛  Bugs:

• One-Off Check-Ins are now shown in Program Exports: Check-Ins manually linked to a Program will now be included in a Program export without session attribution data. A "Scheduled" column has been added to the export.
  
  
• Coaching Overview - Employees Without 1 Completed Check-In: The Coaching Overview page provides the ability to select a time frame to view any Employees who have not completed a check-in. The query's filters have been updated to exclude any completed check-ins that either started or were completed during the selected time frame.
  
  
• Goals Creation - User Dropdown Selector: When creating a goal, the user selector has been updated to only display users who the Manager has the ability to create a goal for. Previously, all users were being shown.

January 26, 2021

🎁  New:

• Coaching Rating Categories: Ambition's newest version of Rating Categories allows teams to highlight specific rating categories per coaching initiative. These can be customized at the Program, Check-in, & Template level. Click here to learn more.

• Slack Slash Command for Competitions: The new Slackbot Slash Command for Ambition allows users to share the competitor standings in active or recently ended Ambition Challenges. To invoke the command in a Slack channel, type and enter /ambition competition. Click here to learn more about Slash Commands.

🐛  Bugs:

• Weekly Digest Competition Counts: Weekly Digests were counting competitions by their last processed date, which is dependent on incoming data. Digest logic has been changed to count by start and end dates to decouple data processing from counting.

January 12, 2021

🐛  Bugs:

• Goal Creation Form:
  • Hierarchy Selector: When creating a new Goal, the hierarchy selector dropdown would previously show all user entities, regardless of the individual's permissions. If an invalid entity was selected the goal form would present an error. This hierarchy selector has been improved to be permission aware, filtering out any invalid choices.
  • Manager Teams: When Managers attempted to make a goal for their "manager" hierarchy, they were being declined with the error "One or more goal owners is required". This has been fixed to ensure that Managers can create goals for any hierarchy level that they oversee.

• Editing Slack Triggers: When editing a pre-existing trigger that included a Slack notification, the Slack channel field would appear blank. This has been fixed to show all pre-selected Slack channels when editing a Trigger's notifications.