Improving employee engagement: Guidant Global
We spoke to the team at Guidant Global to see how OpenBlend has helped improve performance goals, leadership styles and employee engagement.
The Challenge
Guidant place the engagement and wellbeing of their workforce as a high priority activity. Most effort had historically focused at a macro, company wide level and more recently identified that there was a need to support their managers in having engaging and productive conversations, at a micro and individualised level.
In addition, internal feedback suggested the appraisal process was simply a time consuming tick box exercise. The once a year process lacked opportunity for the individual to contribute and didn’t address matters outside of performance, competencies and development.
Guidant Group offer global outsourced recruitment services employing over 250 people, with head office locations in London and Atlanta.
How we implemented
OpenBlend was adopted by the whole business. Annual appraisals were dropped with immediate effect in favour of regular coaching led one to ones using OpenBlend.
The software was implemented in three phases, starting with the leadership team.
The goals
- Get into The Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for.
- Bring in an innovative solution to drive wellbeing and engagement.
- Make 121s and appraisals meaningful and focussed on the individual.
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