---
title: Continuous feedback
description: Give positive or constructive feedback as you go, file it under a category and know who can see it.
url: "https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/performance-continuous-feedback/"
updated: "2026-11-01"
category: "Performance & Goals"
---

# Continuous feedback

Continuous feedback lets you recognise a strength or point out an area of improvement as things happen, without waiting for the review campaign. Each piece of feedback is short, dated, filed under a category and attached to the person who receives it. This article is for everyone: employees, managers and HR.

## Before you start

- The Performance module must be enabled for you.
- Reading a person's feedback requires the “Comments — View” permission (PERFORMANCE section of the role matrix, **Access** level), and that person must be within your role's population. By default, every role supplied with Illizeo holds it.
- Giving feedback requires “Comment — Add” at the **Execute** level. By default, it is granted to the Administrator, HR Manager, Manager, All employees and “All employees — on others” roles.
- You can never give feedback to yourself.

## The Continuous Performance tab

Open a person's profile, then **Performance** and the **Continuous Performance** tab. In your own Performance space, the same tab shows the feedback you have received.

- Three figures: **Feedbacks received**, **Positive** (as a percentage) and **Constructive** (areas of improvement).
- **By category**: one tile per category, with the number of feedback items and how many are positive. Click a tile to filter the list.
- The **All**, **Positive** and **Constructive** filters, and the **Search a feedback...** magnifier.
- The list, ten items per page: author, date, type, category, and the **Private** badge where relevant.

The list follows the cycle chosen at the top of the screen and the contract selected in the profile header.

![An employee's Continuous Performance tab: Feedbacks received, Positive and Constructive figures, By category tiles, All, Positive and Constructive filters, and feedback cards with author, date, type and category](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/performance-continuous-feedback-01.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
An employee's Continuous Performance tab.

## Giving feedback

Two routes lead to the same form:

- from the person's **Continuous Performance** tab, with the **+ New Feedback** button;
- from any page of their profile, through the three-dot menu in the header, **Give feedback** entry.

1. Choose the **Type**: **Positive** (recognition, strength) or **Constructive** (area of improvement).
2. Choose a **Category** if you wish: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Innovation, Results, Time Management or Mentoring.
3. Enter the **Date** (required).
4. Write the **Message** (required).
5. Tick **Private feedback** if the person concerned must not read it (see below).
6. Click **Add Feedback**.

The feedback is attached to the contract selected in the profile header.

![The New Feedback window: Positive or Constructive type, Category with seven choices, Date, Message, Private feedback box and the Cancel and Add Feedback buttons](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/performance-continuous-feedback-02.en_.png?resize=528%2C748&quality=80&ssl=1)
Giving feedback: type, category, date and message.

![An employee's profile header with the More actions menu open, including the Give feedback entry](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/performance-continuous-feedback-03.en_.png?resize=800%2C216&quality=80&ssl=1)
Giving feedback from the profile header menu.

## Who sees what

| Reader | What they see |
| --- | --- |
| The person who receives the feedback | All of their feedback, except items marked private. |
| A reader whose role covers the person (manager, HR, administrator, auditor, depending on the role's population) | All of the person's feedback, private items included. |
| A colleague who may give feedback without reading the person's performance | Only the feedback they have given themselves. |

Private feedback is therefore hidden from the person concerned only: everyone who reads their performance can see it.

### Feedback between colleagues

When the All employees role holds “Comment — Add” at the Execute level, every active employee can give feedback to another active employee shown to them in the directory, even outside their team. On that colleague's profile, the tab is then titled **Feedback you have given**: it shows only your own feedback, with the **Feedback given** counter. Other people's feedback is not visible to you.

## Editing or deleting feedback

Only the author of a feedback item can edit or delete it, from its card in the list:

- editing opens the **Edit Feedback** window, then **Save**;
- deleting asks for confirmation (“Delete this feedback?”).

A manager or HR cannot edit or delete feedback written by someone else.

## The monthly reminder to managers

The supplied “Continuous feedback reminder” workflow, active by default, sends each manager a reminder at the start of every month, by email and in Illizeo notifications: “Reminder: please give feedback to your team members this month.” An administrator can switch it off in **Settings › Manage Employees › Workflows**, **Global settings** tab, Performance group, **Periodic reminder for continuous feedback** switch (see [Administering the Performance module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/performance-administer/)).

## Good to know

- Giving feedback triggers no notification: neither the person concerned nor their manager is told. They find it in the tab.
- Continuous feedback is not part of the end-of-cycle dossier, which only brings together campaign reviews.
- On a profile where you can only see the header, the **Give feedback** entry is not offered.

## FAQ

### I cannot see the New Feedback button.

You may be on your own page (you cannot give yourself feedback), or your role does not hold “Comment — Add” at the Execute level.

### An employee is reading feedback their manager thought was restricted.

Only items ticked **Private feedback** are hidden from them. Feedback that is not ticked can be read by the person concerned.

### Can I give feedback from the employee directory?

Open the person's full profile, then use the three-dot menu in the header or the Continuous Performance tab.

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