Thanks for your comments. Rypple is very focused on empowering workers to set their own goals and share them across the organization. In fact, the whole idea behind Social Goals 2.0 is to let individual employees set their most important goals, identify the key results that drive each goal, and share their goals across the organization. Social Goals 2.0 also takes that approach to the next level by encouraging collaboration — anyone can jump in on their coworkers goals, whether they actually join the goal or simply give some feedback or “like” the goal. The idea is completely empowering the individual to set their own goals in an agile, bottom-up way.

Lisa Skapinker
Rypple

The Rypple site littered with a bunch 50-60 year old consultants talking to you about how to lead/coach/manage us (tell employees what to do). I saw maybe 20- 30+ webinars that have to do with top down management, telling vs. working with. Not a single one oriented towards the challenges I have with working with people, sharing work, with other locations.

The article should be honest and say this is for managers to tell people what to do. GigaOm would give us the full picture of these vendors and not mask in their marketing spins and hype. Overall it’s SuccessFactors 2.0 – built for management with some social features. We all hated SuccessFactors and don’t see this being much different for savy tech folks.

There are a lot of awesome, new approaches to the socialization of performance reviews/human resources. A company that started this movement was WorkSimple (getworksimple.com). While Rypple seems focused on the management of employees, WorkSimple tackles this from a different angle – empowering every employee to create and share goals. That model sits better with me and I believe it speaks more to the folks out there working. Certainly it helps with flattened hierarchy, remote workers, and engages the workforce in a similar way.

Still, it’s great to see stuff like this being developed. Workers definitely want to see and feel their contribution. Ya know, perks and benefits are great, but we really do want to be contributing in a meaningful way.