How do I choose the right company settings?

teamecho works best when your settings are well-suited to your goals, culture, and requirements. Here's how to choose the right company settings.

As an administrator, you can adjust your company settings at any time to ensure they are perfectly tailored to your needs. You can find the company settings under "My Company" -> "Configuration", where you can edit each section using the pencil icon.

• Release of survey results
• Preselected question set
• Organization settings
• Time zone and date format
• SCIM User Provisioning
• Visibility of evaluations and comments

Release of survey results

In the Release of Survey Results section, you can configure:

• Whether survey results should be displayed immediately after the minimum participant threshold is reached or only after the survey is completed. You can find more details here.
• The default required number of responses for new teams, which determines the default evaluation threshold (the minimum number of responses required to view results) for newly created teams. This value can be adjusted when creating or editing individual teams.
• The minimum number of answers to show an evaluation, which sets the lowest possible threshold across all teams. If the minimum number of answers here is increased, all teams with a lower threshold will be adjusted accordingly.

How should I configure the release of survey results?

By default, we recommend displaying results after five responses. Why? Our experience shows that this setting offers the best balance between fast result availability and perceived anonymity:

• When results are displayed only after five responses, the first team member to complete the survey does not need to worry about their responses being immediately visible or identifiable.
• Most team members (starting from the fifth participant) will see a populated teamecho dashboard right after completing the survey, boosting engagement and curiosity. This allows team members to immediately respond to comments and reflect on current results, increasing participation and improving feedback quality.

Preselected question set

The preselected question set determines which question set is selected by default on the dashboard, in the heatmap, or in key insights. It's best to choose the question set that your employees will work with most frequently.

Organization Settings

In the Organization Settings, you can configure various team and feature settings, including:

• Whether team members can be added without email addresses. While possible, we generally recommend adding team members with email addresses to ensure they receive notifications about new surveys and other updates.
• Whether team members should receive an automatic reminder three days before the end of an ongoing survey.
• Whether cross section teams can be created and whether comments are allowed in cross-section teams. Learn more about these functions here. If cross section teams are used solely as additional evaluation units without discussion in dedicated meetings, it is usually advisable to disable comments in these teams.
• Whether departments can be created. Learn more about structuring your organization with teamecho here.
• Whether users can react to comments. Comment reactions improve clarity and usability of discussions.
• Whether users are encouraged to give appreciative comments. Learn more about how this feature works here.

Time zone and date format

In this section, you can adjust your time zone and configure whether the day of the comment should be displayed. Hiding the day can be useful if it might reveal an employee's identity (e.g., if someone only works on specific days).

SCIM User Provisioning

This section is only available if SCIM is activated in your company. Learn how to set up SCIM for your organization here.

Visibility of evaluations and comments

In this section you define which areas of the teamecho dashboards can be viewed by which employees. teamecho offers many options to customize the settings for your company.

Here you can find details about the visibility settings.

With all these options, you might be wondering how to best set the right settings for your company. The important thing is: keep in mind your goals and what you want from teamecho, and think about which settings best fit your culture and daily work.