Leadership training with Yomento

Yomento offers a digital nudging tool, designed to inspire and guide leaders to practice daily leadership behaviors in the flow of work. Since building new habits takes time and effort, Yomento and Blocket designed a joint leadership journey for the leaders throughout 2020:

• A clear, overarching goal for Blocket: to strengthen engagement for both employees and leaders
• A training goal for each and every leader
• The Yomento Personal Leadership Traininer to make training happen
• Recurring leadership forums for discussing the training, sharing experiences, and strengthening learning
• Peer coaching where the leaders meet in smaller groups to support and challenge each other
• Regular training reports to follow up on the practice and inspire continued training

Training data contributes to strategic planning

All training activities on a group level (not individually) can be tracked in real-time on the Leadership Dashboard. The data is used by Blocket as a strategic foundation for following progress and evaluating what additional measures to take moving forward.

”We try to keep lazer focus on our most important business objectives, and we regularly discuss outcomes and activities related to those. Based on the training data, we can easily see if we are doing the right things to strengthen our goals related to employee engagement. We don’t need to wait until the next measurement and just hope for the best” says Maria Nylén and continues: “And we are doing the right things; after only two months of daily training our people tells us through the pulse survey that their leaders have improved”

Every month training data is shared with the leaders, so they can follow the group’s progress and support, challenge, and inspire each other. Continuous communication is important to boost motivation and long-term engagement. 

Impact and results – how did it go? 

The ultimate goal, to strengthen engagement,  has been measured monthly throughout the year and peaked during the spring and summer, even after Covid-19 made its unexpected entrance. During the fall 2020, engagement has however turned slightly downwards. Maria Nylén is not surprised, considering the extraordinary times and challenges that the pandemic and working from home brings for both individuals and leaders. Based on this, lots of new initiatives to stimulate engagement have been introduced at Blocket all through the year.