September 2022

The most important relationship your employees have at your organization is with their manager. This relationship is one of the biggest factors in employee engagement and feeling powerful at work. That’s why we’re so excited to let you in on new development and enablement opportunities for your people managers Read more below about this exciting new release coming soon and what else has been released at PILOT in Q3.

COMING SOON!

Development Conversations Made Easy for Managers!

• Empower your managers to remain connected to their employees’ development with reusable tools and guidance from PILOT.

  • All new group coaching session with easy-to-implement development methods for managers

  • Easy-to-use tool to get prepared for their development conversations

  • Prompts to have regular development conversations with access to prep tools and what their employee has done with PILOT so far

What’s New?

New and Improved Manager Experience

• Get managers involved in supporting their employees in PILOT with a formal invite to participate and simplified action items.

  • Employees invite their manager to participate and set goals during sign up

  • Managers answer just 10 questions to give employees’ insightful feedback

  • PILOT sends regular email reminders to busy managers

  • Employees are included in manager email communications for transparency and ownership

Live Group Coaching Session Recaps

• Give high performing employees a quick and easy way to recap any live group coaching session they miss -or- go back and refresh their memory.

  • Takes just 10 minutes to catch up

  • Includes 3 engaging videos that recap coaching and distinctions

  • Challenging reflection questions prompt employees to go from knowing to doing

  • Immediate confirmation email upon completion includes notes and bonus content

July 2022

The PILOT Product Team takes pride in listening to our customers about your ideas, your feedback and the things that are a real pain for you. Creating a program that helps make everyone feel powerful at work is a true partnership between you and our team. So, we want to show you what we’ve been up to with all of your thoughts, ideas and feedback.

What’s Coming in Q3?

Champion Engagement Activities

• A simple, yet powerful experience that supports and engages your Executive Champion(s) before, during and after PILOT.

Structured Peer Community Experiences

• Bringing members together for a structured, engaging experience with their peers.

An Exclusive Alumni Offering

• Continue to help members feel powerful at work even after they graduate from the PILOT 6 month development program.

Live Coaching Refresher

• Quickly and easily recap or refresh the key concepts from any live group coaching session.

New and Improved Manager Involvement

• Get managers excited to support their employees, enable them to self-assess how they currently develop people, and set their own learning and development goals.

March 2022
Program Management
& Member Engagement

We know how important it is that program management is easy, time efficient and impactful. That’s why PILOT’s most recent release equips you with your very own Program Manager Experience including just in time metrics & reports, quick reflection activities for your own development, advice for amplifying engagement and even more peer community features to build connection amongst cohort members.

What’s New?

Structured & Guided Program Management

• Drive the success of your career development program with your very own structured PILOT experience including

  • Quick and powerful reflection activities

  • Guidance and advice from PILOT

  • Impact and engagement reports for your cohort(s)

Community & Relationship Building on Live Coaching Sessions

• A new PILOT survey revealed employees across industries, roles and career level have a clear need for relationship building and connection now more than ever, so we’re adding more opportunities for them to connect.

  • New “introduce yourself” section on first live coaching session

  • More time spent in breakout rooms on all live coaching sessions

  • Community agreements, including active participation, being on time and arriving prepared to discuss

  • Q&A time for members to pose questions to the PILOT Crew and their colleagues

Cohort Communities on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and more!

• Create an additional space for cohort members to interact, share their learnings, build relationships and form connections asynchronously.

  • The PILOT Team joins your cohort channel to interact with employees, assist in relationship building through discussion prompts and offer bonus materials like podcasts, videos, articles, frameworks and more.

September 2021
Enhanced Program Kickoff

Introducing the new and improved PILOT Kickoff Experience. This update equips you with everything you need to kickoff the PILOT program with employees and their managers, increase participation and learn more about your people with powerful new data.

What’s New?

• Employee Sentiment About Your Organization

  • Arm yourself with useful data about your employees' at your organization at the beginning of PILOT with questions like, “I see myself working here in two years time.” Demonstrate progress and value to your key stakeholders with before and after data reports.

    • You get access to a custom report for your organization with trending & relevant engagement areas and up to date benchmarks for comparison.

• Coordinated Employee & Manager Kickoff

  • Fuel participation from both employees and managers right from the start with informative, exciting and automated kickoff communications. Employees are left with an understanding of how PILOT works and what's in it for them, while managers are up to date on who is participating and how they can get the most out of PILOT.

    • Your managers receive immediate email communication informing them that their employee has signed up, what the program is and their part to play.

• New One-Click Time Blocks for PILOT Development

  • Help employees protect time for their development and stay accountable with PILOT. Increase employee participation and the development of new habits with PILOT calendar blocks!

    • Your employees are given an easy way to add PILOT to their weekly calendar as a reminder to focus on their growth & development.

    • Calendar blocking feature with support for Google Calendar, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and ICS upload

June 2021
New Member Sign Up

Introducing the new and improved PILOT Member Sign Up - everything you need to get your employees onboarded to their PILOT cohort. PILOT does the heavy lifting handing logistics with a simple, exciting and engaging sign up process while you can put your strategic hat on.

What’s New?

• Beautifully designed, custom sign up page with your headshot, company logo and communication to your employees

• Program Overview that informs and aligns employees on what they are signing up for and what they will get out of PILOT

• Countdown timer to final date to sign up to create urgency & excitement

• Guided Sign Up Wizard that gives your employees a first-class, supportive onboarding process

• Immediate email communication to your employees upon signing up, confirms that they have claimed their seat in the cohort