In recent years, the issue of workplace discomfort has become central and has only grown with the health crisis. Burnout, lack of recognition, loss of meaning or even tensions between teams are recurrent ills that plague businesses.
Starting in 2015, to assess the discomfort of their employees, organizations launched en masse engagement survey campaigns (or Mood Survey). But while Mood Surveys are good measurement tools, making it possible to specify the expectations of employees, they are not tools for action. The initiatives taken at the time did not live up to employee expectations. For me and my two future partners, Léo-Paul Goffic and Thibault Vilon, it was time to take action!
Our desire to change management practices did not come from nowhere! Our stints in large American companies allowed us to see that everything was possible, such as exceeding your goals while being fulfilled at work. American leaders have succeeded in implementing healthy and impacting management, which makes it possible to raise mountains. So why not do the same thing in France?
Moreover, dusting off management in France has become more than vital because major changes are taking place in organizations: teleworking has become a given and employees now expect a quality employee experience. If businesses don't become aware of the expectations of their employees, they risk seeing their talents disengage or, worse, leave the ship to join the freelancing world or retrain.
But beyond speeches, concrete solutions had to be proposed. By talking with HR managers, we quickly realized that the first point of tension was the annual maintenance! In France, this interview crystallizes numerous problems, in particular the impossibility of exchanging calmly with one's manager.
In creating Elevo, it seemed essential to us to solve this first problem and to go beyond it by promoting feedback and development in organizations.
Without a culture of dialogue and development, a company quickly runs out of steam. Indeed, how can employees reach,
or even exceed their goals, without exchanging more than once a year
with their manager?
How can they progress without being trained and well supported?
We thought of Elevo much more than as a solution for HR. Elevo is a medium that allows leaders to democratize a culture of dialogue and to put people back at the heart of their organization.
In order to better support businesses and to help employees find their place in organizations, we decided to turn to training management, one of the key elements of a good employee experience.
Training is indeed one of the pillars of a quality employee experience because it promotes the development of employees and their long-term performance.
For us, the development of a training management module is therefore the logical continuation of the Elevo adventure: supporting everyone to develop in a healthy work environment and offering the best possible employee experience. This last point is crucial because organizational models are changing. With employees working from home, sometimes spread all over the world, the employee experience, and more broadly, management practices, must be redesigned.
If more and more companies trust us, it is because our mission is not only to digitize HR processes but also to ensure that the world of work - even virtual - is more human.