“My managers need help with difficult conversations. They’re struggling with team performance or failing to bring up feedback in a timely manner.”
“Managers keep coming to me with basic questions that we’ve covered in training programs. I spend hours each week coaching managers.”
“Our trainings are fantastic but I’m struggling to drive engagement. Managers are too busy for workshops.”
"It's impossible to facilitate training for managers across time zones, they're always 'too busy' to attend."
Kona connects to your documentation, trainings, and existing tools to deliver highly personalized advice aligned to your values.
Managers bring real-life scenarios to Kona and apply best practices for effective feedback, expectation setting, and more.
Managers can talk to Kona and get their problem solved in 5 minutes, without scheduling a call or leaving Slack.
Kona helps managers prepare data, draft answers, and deliver their performance reviews in half the time.
Kona promotes your latest L&D resources and courses to help managers hit their continuous learning goals.
Kona factors in recent tasks, projects, and calendar schedules to support better feedback and prioritization.
Kona pulls from your documentation/source of truth to ensure it follows your company processes.
Kona references team structures to give more relevant coaching, according to how your company actually works.
Kona can integrate to the tools your team is used to, so you don't take them out of their flow.
Kona is 100% confidential! Conversations happen in Slack DMs and are completely private. Admin users can have access to anonymized usage data (ie. session starts and session length) to assess adoption, but we never share any of the contents from private DMs. See our Privacy Policy for more details.
Yes! We’ve designed our pricing to make it easy to adopt for an entire company or an individual’s L&D budget. If your leaders have access to a personal development budget, they can have their monthly Kona subscription reimbursed.
Kona is designed to support any situations you’re running into as a leader. Our most common use cases include feedback and difficult conversations, preparing for 1:1s, drafting and preparing for performance reviews, and career development.
Yes! We offer a 14-day free trial and our Slack Sandbox for users to test it out. See Pricing for more details.
People problems aren’t unique to just managers. If you’re an individual contributor, you can still use Kona to navigate difficult conversations, upwards feedback, and to help you prepare to become a manager.
Kona is currently built to support Slack. However, we have an open waitlist for our Microsoft Teams integration. You’ll get notified when we release this update!