Parabol for People & Culture Teams
Health checks that close the loop
Most engagement surveys end at a dashboard. Parabol’s Team Health ends in the retro where the team decides what to change — and the next check shows whether it worked.
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Survey → Retro → Action → Measure again
Parabol Team Health is a short, anonymous health check a team runs every sprint: five research-backed questions, one per category, revealed in the retro where the team decides what to change. It closes the loop most engagement programs never close, in one tool the teams already open every sprint.
1. Ask the questions the research says matter
- Built-in packs: Everything Bagel, Gallup Q12, Edmondson’s Psychological Safety, Hackman’s Team Diagnostic Survey, Spotify Squad Health Check and Atlassian Team Health Monitor
- Every question maps to one of five categories from Google’s Project Aristotle
- Add your own questions — AI files each one under the right category
- One question per category per check, rotating, so there is no survey fatigue
2. Get honest answers — anonymity is enforced, not promised
- Individual answers are never shown to anyone, including the team lead
- Results reveal only when the check closes, and only above a minimum respondent count
- Anonymous comments are reworded by AI so nobody is recognized by how they write
- Slack and in-app reminders reach people who haven’t answered — participation is the metric that decides whether a program lives
3. Turn the result into a decision, in the same meeting
- Category scores with change since last check and a five-check trend
- A discussion thread on every result, with anonymous comments already reworded
- Create tasks on the spot and sync them to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear or Azure DevOps
- Run the check as a phase of the retro, so the conversation happens while the numbers are fresh
Built for people teams, owned by the teams themselves
One subscription, not one more
Dedicated engagement tools charge per seat for the survey alone.
- Team Health is included in Team ($8 per active user per month) and Enterprise — alongside retros, standups, estimation and Pages
- No separate engagement-platform contract, and no second login to roll out
- Open source and self-hostable: sensitive people data can stay on your own infrastructure
Everything else your teams need is already here
Team Health
Recurring, research-backed health checks across five categories — anonymous, trended over time, run standalone or inside the retro.
Retrospectives
Where a low score becomes a plan: reflect, group, vote, discuss and leave with owners.
Anonymity
Anonymous reflections, votes, comments and health-check answers — honesty by default.
Summaries & Pages
Every meeting produces a summary and a searchable Page, so decisions and follow-ups are never lost.
Icebreakers
200+ built-in questions to build connection before the check or the retro.
Enterprise-ready security
SOC 2 Type II, SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, and on-prem or single-tenant hosting when people data must stay in-house.
Healthy teams are productive teams
“Parabol makes retrospectives and other types of brainstorm-cluster-discuss types of meetings really smooth. This tool makes it easy to get a lot done fast, even more effectively than on a board with sticky notes.”
David Kohler
Leadership Trainer, SkyPilots
“I have been using Parabol for retrospectives for several years and with multiple teams. The icebreakers and various retro templates help foster new conversations, and keep our meetings fun and engaging. Parabol is the most comprehensive, yet simple tool I have found”
Daniela Williams
Engineering Manager, Trimble