Announcing: 15Five’s Predictive Impact Model

Announcing: 15Five’s Predictive Impact Model

At 15Five we see a vision for HR that goes beyond just measuring things like engagement, performance, and retention – all the way to actually making an impact. Everything we build is helping our customers either accurately diagnose their problems, strategically plan how to solve them, and/or take action through their managers to make an impact.

Today we announced the brand new Predictive Impact Model, an AI-powered data model that helps HR teams confidently build strategic action plans to maximize employee engagement with the confidence of precise, predictive insights and recommendations.

The Problem with Employee Disengagement

The total global economic cost of disengaged employees exceeds $8.8 trillion annually, according to Gallup. Many organizations are spending billions to try and address engagement problems, but they often struggle to identify the most actionable causes first.

This leaves businesses no better off than they were decades ago. They measure → guess → hope. Repeat. The broken feedback loop continues, and disengagement only continues to spiral.

“Fixing engagement still feels like a guessing game for too many organizations, and they struggle to take action” – Jeff Smith, PhD, and 15Five’s Chief Product Officer.

It’s time for a new approach. We can do so much more than just look backward and vaguely describe the state of engagement, but struggle to take action. The new workplace expectations of employees, the new expectations of HR and new advances in AI are combining to create what we believe is an entirely new era for employee engagement: 

The Predictive Era

The Predictive Era of engagement is where HR teams look forward, and drive long-term improvement with total confidence.

“We now have over thirty years of science proving that engaged employees are an incredible strategic advantage, leading to higher profitability, productivity and employee retention. But fixing engagement still feels like a guessing game for too many organizations, and they struggle to take action,” said Jeff Smith, PhD, and 15Five’s Chief Product Officer. “With the launch of the Predictive Impact Model, we’re capitalizing on our rich dataset and new advances in AI to help every organization surgically diagnose and address specific pockets of disengagement with more confidence and precision than ever before.” 

15Five’s AI-Powered Predictive Impact Model

15Five’s Predictive Impact Model layers machine learning atop the company’s proprietary employee engagement dataset spanning over 6 years, 30 million responses and 600,000 surveys across thousands of organizations. 

The predictions provide a clear and accurate representation of how changes in specific statements from employee engagement surveys can improve engagement, giving HR teams extremely specific, actionable areas to improve. 

For example, 15Five’s Predictive Impact Model might indicate that employee engagement for high performers in an organization’s engineering department could be improved by 5.2 points if the HR team were to focus on limiting distractions in the workplace. These predictive insights are prioritized by their potential for impact, allowing HR leaders to focus only on the most critical areas for improvement.

15Five’s AI-powered data model developed in-house

“When we looked at the size, scope and completeness of our dataset on engagement alongside new advances in explanatory AI, we saw an incredible opportunity to help HR teams understand and act on pockets of disengagement in their organization like never before,” said Elizabeth Pemberton, PhD and 15Five’s Staff Data Scientist who led the development of the Predictive Impact Model. “We’re so excited to get this into the hands of every HR team. With a dynamic view of engagement across key demographics and employee groups, and more specificity than ever on what’s working and what’s not, every HR team can stop guessing and confidently take action.”

AI-Powered Assistance for Strategic Action Planning

15Five is also helping HR teams transition from diagnosis to strategic planning with the announcement of a new AI-powered assistant for HR, and new action planning capabilities.

Co-Planner is an AI assistant inside the 15Five platform that gives in-context guidance and recommendations during the strategic planning phase, making it easier to take action. HR teams can interact conversationally with Co-Planner, getting real-time answers to questions about how to interpret specific findings, and which strategic actions have the highest probability of yielding positive impact.

From there, customers can use 15Five’s strategic action planning tools to organize their employee engagement programs into coordinated campaigns focused on the needs of specific segments. Initially launched in June 2024 for HR teams, action plans can now be created and led by people managers to enable stronger collaboration with HR teams and a greater sense of accountability. 

Conclusion: Entering the Predictive Era of Employee Engagement with 15Five

The Predictive Impact Model signals a transformative shift for HR teams into what we believe will be the Predictive Era—a time when HR leaders don’t just measure engagement and performance but confidently create plans for improvement backed by predictive precision.

We believe that moving beyond the approach of “measure, guess, hope” is not just possible but necessary and with the AI-powered Predictive Impact Model, organizations can finally have the clarity they need to impact specific areas of disengagement and drive a measurable impact on their businesses.

For a demo or more information, visit www.15Five.com/demo.