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Getting Started Guide for Program Managers

Welcome to Optify! This guide introduces the primary tools available to Program Managers and explains how to begin managing your organization’s coaching programs, coaches, and participants.

Written by Mariana Yates

Watch the Program Manager Training

Begin by watching the complete walkthrough below:

Accessing Optify

Log in to your organization’s Optify platform using the email address associated with your account. You can always login by clicking on www.optiy.io

After signing in, you will arrive at the Program Manager dashboard. The options available to you may vary depending on your organization’s platform configuration and the permissions assigned to your account.

The dashboard gives you an overview of your organization’s coaching activity.

Use it to quickly review information such as:

  • Active coaching engagements

  • Coach and participant activity

  • Scheduling progress

  • Program status

  • Surveys, assessments, and assigned resources

  • Items that may require follow-up

Manage Programs

Programs allow you to organize coaching engagements around a shared structure, process, or offering.

From the Programs area, you may be able to:

Manage Participants (Clients)

Participants (Clients) are the individuals receiving coaching through the platform.

Program Managers may be able to:

Confirm each participant’s email address before sending an invitation, as this address will be used to access the platform and receive program communications.

Use the available dashboards and program views to track each engagement throughout the coaching journey.

Program Managers can monitor items such as:

  • Whether participants have been welcomed

  • Coach assignments

  • Coaching-session scheduling

  • Engagement start and target end dates

  • Survey completion

  • Resource completion

  • Overall engagement status

Dashboard information may refresh on a schedule, so a recently completed action might not appear immediately in every report.

Program Managers can use Optify’s communication tools to send relevant information and reminders.

Depending on your organization’s setup, you may be able to communicate with:

  • All members of a program

  • Participants

  • Coaches

  • Sponsors or other stakeholders

Use program communications for reminders, announcements, next steps, and other information connected to the coaching experience.

When a coaching engagement has ended:

  1. Confirm that all required sessions and activities are complete.

  2. Review outstanding surveys or resources.

  3. Verify the engagement’s completion information.

  4. Close or complete the engagement according to your organization’s process.

Keeping engagement statuses current helps ensure that dashboards, reports, and platform-usage information remain accurate.

Recommended First Steps

When beginning as a Program Manager:

  1. Review your Program Manager dashboard.

  2. Become familiar with your organization’s existing programs.

  3. Review the coach and participant lists.

  4. Confirm how participants are added and welcomed.

  5. Learn your organization’s coach-assignment process.

  6. Review the available dashboards and reports.

  7. Confirm your organization’s process for completing engagements.

  8. Use the Knowledge Base search whenever you need instructions for a specific feature.

Need Further Assistance?

If you need any further assistance, please feel free to reach out using the chat feature of the Optify Platform!

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