Flint FAQ

Flint is a purpose-built platform that streamlines the tracking, reviewing, and showcasing of your achievements. Easily record your accomplishments and their impact. Flint allows you to share knowledge and celebrate successes for yourself and your peers.

An accomplishment in Flint represents growth, behaviors, or successes. Each accomplishment captures essential details, such as what you did, the impact of the accomplishment, and your behaviors that contributed to its success. Accomplishments provide valuable insights during performance conversations and highlight your contributions and growth within the organization.

We suggest adding 2 to 3 new accomplishments per week.

Think of Flint as your work journal, recording your successes, places where you made an impact, or anything that consumed a significant amount of time. Accomplishments may be part of a much larger project, which might also involve many people, and it might not always be fully complete.

Accomplishments can also be tangible or intangible. Tangible accomplishments could include writing a document for a new design, building a small tool, or designing a new widget. Intangible accomplishments could include mentoring a peer, providing exceptional customer service, or contributing to a positive team culture.

🥳 Pro-Tip: Are you proud of something you accomplished? Create an entry in Flint!

• Presented innovative ideas and solutions during the project team meeting

  • Proposed 3 designs that cut costs

  • Recommended a machine learning algorithm for 15% efficiency improvement

• Provided mentorship to our new team member, and helped them navigate a tough cross-functional situation

  • Mediated a complex interdepartmental conflict, achieving resolution in three weeks

• Designed and executed validation tests, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations

  • Developed a test plan to verify compliance with ISO 9001 standards

  • Executed the tests on a range of products

  • Generated detailed test reports, identifying non-conformities, leading to prompt issue resolution

You can share an accomplishment with anyone in your organization, including peers, team members, or individuals from different departments who are involved or knowledgeable of your success. After sharing, your peers will be notified of your accomplishments, and asked to provide optional feedback.

For each accomplishment, we suggest that you share it with 1-3 peers who have the most context about the work. Adding peers is entirely optional.

You can privately share their thoughts, opinions, and suggestions about the accomplishments shared with you. There are prompts for feedback in Flint:

• What did they do well and should continue doing?

  • Use this as a chance to reinforce their accomplishment and specifically acknowledge their personal strengths.

• What could they do differently in the future to have more impact?

  • Use this as a chance to provide constructive feedback or growth opportunities that could empower them to supercharge their strengths in the future.

Providing feedback through Flint is an effective way to identify growth opportunities for your peers and foster mentorship and coaching within your working relationships. It serves as a valuable tool for supporting the professional development of your colleagues, allowing you to provide guidance and assistance in a constructive manner. Since Flint allows you to give feedback often, feel free to keep your feedback brief where possible.

When providing feedback, we recommend considering the following:

• Be specific and include examples or details

• Be constructive and aim to enhance the impact they're already having

• Be empathetic and respectful of their feelings

Comments are a way to provide public recognition or elaboration for an accomplishment for others to see. Comments can be used to provide additional context to other peers, ask questions, or engage in discussions. Because comments are publicly visible, they can be used to easily share knowledge and ideas with team members.

Accomplishments in an employee's Tracker are visible to both the employee and their manager.

Peers can see an accomplishment in Flint only if it is shared with them.

Data privacy and security are top priorities for Flint. We adhere to industry best practices and compliance standards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your sensitive data and entries. We intentionally grant user permissions and role-based access to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to specific information.

Prior to using Flint, a Slack admin in your organization will install the Flint Slack App. Slack will notify you when you receive feedback on your accomplishments and when others share their accomplishments with you.

Yes, Flint can be used to highlight and recognize behaviors, attitudes, and soft skills that contribute to success but may not be easily quantifiable with metrics. By capturing feedback from peers on the impact and behavior of individuals, Flint allows for the recognition of intangible contributions such as mentorship, support, and knowledge sharing.

Yes, you can conveniently update your notification preferences by accessing the Profile tab located in the left-hand panel.