As a manager, you likely started your career doing similar work to what your current direct reports are doing. And you had lots of tools at your disposal, whether it be an IDE for tech folks, accounting software for bookkeepers, design software for creatives, and on and on. Can you imagine having done your job without them? They were essential to your success.

The Problem

Then you became a manager, and suddenly the landscape of tooling was abysmal. You have the HR-approved tooling that you mostly just use to approve time off and submit performance reviews with, but it doesn’t feel relevant to the day in and day out grind of management. Plus, you’re pretty sure that anything you document in those apps can and will be used against you. You likely just end up using gigantic Word or Google Docs files to keep track of 1:1 notes for each of your direct reports. The more adamant of you have cobbled together a complicated spider web of Obsidian or Notion solutions that kind of work but have their issues.

Then when review time rolls around, you either fall prey to the recency bias, noting their last couple of projects and can’t remember anything that happened more than 6 weeks ago. Or you copy-paste the entire file into an LLM to create your review, without reading what confidential information might be in there.

Without proper tooling, too, you may struggle to develop all of the different types of relationships that are required to be a successful manager. You'll want to be developing and guiding your direct reports, aligning with your stakeholders, building trust and support with peers, and creating a values-driven culture with your extended network.

How We Help

We’d like to offer you a professional grade tool for managing your team with purpose and intentionality. Just like when you were a front-line employee, you had a tool to help you with best practices that created professional results hard to come by without them.

People Work is a tool that will help you…

• With 1:1s, keeping sensitive information secure and private
• Track the morale of individuals and groups
• Track commitments you make
• Track commitments others make
• Manage stakeholder relationships
• Have actual privacy, not surveillance like many VC-backed companies, so you can use it without fear of anyone else reading it!
• Build trust and influence, ultimately leading to greater agency in your career

Instead of having a tool for someone else that makes you feel like you’re just checking off a box or worse, being surveilled, People Work can help you to be the successful manager you want to be for your team.

And imagine if your team actually used it to engage in their own career growth, resulting in them being more engaged and more productive team members. Those types of teams and leaders are rare, but we aspire to help create them. We build the tooling to create those outcomes and make your journey as manager as successful as possible.

Try it Today

We're a bootstrapped software company dedicated to helping people like you with the people side of their jobs. We're confident if you follow our process and use the app, that your journey as manager will take you where you want to go. Most people aren't this intentional; when you do the work of connecting to people in your company, you'll easily stand out from the others.

Take the next step and try our 45-day free trial.