Customer case study

Valid promotes ownership and personal development

In response to the need for a greater focus on personal development among employees, Valid decided to launch out in a new direction.

Using Dialog managers have taken on more of a coaching role in their leadership, and the focus for employees is once more on personal growth.

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The HR challenge for Valid

IT is at the heart of Valid, whose point of difference is helping its customers stay ahead of the game. This places a lot of demands on the employees. Attracting, retaining and leveraging talent is one of the biggest challenges facing HR today, and it’s no different for Valid.

Employee satisfaction surveys showed that the previous staff appraisal system had a low approval rating. Employees stated that goals set at the beginning of the year rarely corresponded to what they were doing day-to-day and that there was too little focus on personal development.

Valid has been committed to keeping its customers ahead of the curve since 1999. Taking an innovative and personal approach, they help organisations improve and optimise IT and innovate their business. Valid does this with the flexible deployment of IT Consultants, by managing and improving end-to-end IT environments and with smart solutions in the area of Digital Business.

Valid core values: Nearby, Authentic, Cutting-edge, Ahead.

“You never know before you take the leap whether you are ready as an organisation for such major change, but looking back this was the right move for us – to enable us to better support our colleagues in their personal and professional growth.”

Michèl Robberts – HR Manager Valid

Employees in control with Forward

Valid wanted to have a greater focus on personal growth. And, to help them achieve this aim, they developed a new performance management method, called Forward. In this way, Valid is living out its mission to continually improve and to make a difference through innovation. Forward is all about development and progress, and truly has the employee at its heart. Employees draw up their own personal plan, grow through feedback from colleagues and customers, and are in regular dialogue with their line manager.

Key aspects of Forward

Rocket-start

Personal control

With Forward, the initiative is with the employee! Employees set their own goals, ask for feedback and work on their personal development.

Setting goals

Valid sets organisational goals to which employees can contribute. Employees also set personal development goals.

Feedback and dialogue

Feedback is the basis for development to happen. Forward invites employees to ask for feedback on a regular basis.

Uncovering talent

Forward helps employees to uncover and use their own talents and so invest in themselves. It goes without saying this is to Valid’s benefit too.

Why Dialog

Forward gives employees more say when setting their goals and puts regular dialogue about personal development centre stage. Moreover, it encourages managers to take more of a coaching leadership role. The old system (a Word document) did not even come close to facilitating this way of working. We knew right from the off that we wanted to enable Forward with an innovative online platform. Valid chose Dialog for the following reasons:

Flexibility

Flexibility

“Dialog's platform is very flexible and can be configured to support and enhance our process and vision.”

Usability

Ease of use

“Dialog is simple and clear! This gave us confidence that there would be good uptake of the tool and it would in fact be used.”

Excellent service

Excellent service

“Short lines of communication and a permanent contact person are a real boon! Our wishes were also taken into account in the development.”

“We knew it was time to say goodbye and good riddance to that old Word document we had been using for our performance management system. After numerous talks with different suppliers, we went with Dialog as our supplier.

Cindy Courage – HR Advisor Valid

Forward & Dialog

Personal plan
Employees put together a personal plan in which they define what they want to achieve and where they want to develop.

Request feedback
Employees are encouraged to ask for and give regular feedback to colleagues. Valid facilitates feedback sessions for employees.

Evaluate
Employees are in control and write their own wrap-up at the end of the year, which forms the basis for the evaluation meeting with the manager.

Happy employees
Research shows that when employees have greater freedom they are happier, precisely what Valid is aiming to achieve by enabling employees to configure Dialog freely and transparently.

Dialog Platform

18 months of Dialog

Valid is already reaping the benefits of Forward. For example, employees are more focused (95% have drawn up a personal plan). Accordingly, they have greater focus when working on their goals (1776 reflections on goals).

This ensures they are able to contribute to organisational goals in more specific ways. In addition, an ongoing dialogue with regular 1-to-1s has been established (842 x feedback received) between the manager and employee.

Valid is already reaping the benefits of Forward. For example, employees are more focused (95% have drawn up a personal plan). Accordingly, they have greater focus when working on their goals (1776 reflections on goals). This ensures they are able to contribute to organisational goals in more specific ways. In addition, an ongoing dialogue with regular 1-to-1s has been established (842 x feedback received) between the manager and employee.

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