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Building strong and united teams in your company, like in sports, not families.

Are you struggling to build a strong and united team in your company? Do you believe that sports teams provide a great model for teamwork in business? If so, people analytics might be the solution you’re looking for.

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In a Harvard note Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh sayed:  “Using the term family makes it easy for misunderstandings to arise.” With that term, the rules of the competitive industry are not taken into consideration. “In contrast to a family, a professional sports team has a specific mission (to win games and championships), and its members come together to accomplish that mission.”

In sports, the strongest teams are built on a clear strategy, excellent teamwork, and data analysis. Similarly, in business, it’s essential to have a strong team that believes in the company’s mission and is passionate about their work. At Leanmote, we understand the importance of building a strong team, and we have the tools to help you do it.

⚽Don’t treat your company like a family, treat it like a sports team and use data to win the game.⚽

Strong as a rock

Building a strong team is critical for success. The foundation of a successful team is identifying and nurturing high-potential individuals. These individuals are the “elite” athletes of the business world who have the potential to take your company to the top of your industry. Or the World Cup.

But identifying high-potential individuals is just the beginning. It’s essential to provide these individuals with the support and coaching they need to succeed. That’s why we provide data so companies can identify needs and make intelligent decisions.

What’s a team without a coach?

In sports, the coach plays a critical role in leading and motivating the team. In business, the manager is the coach, and their job is to help the team members achieve their full potential. At Leanmote, we provide managers with real-time data about their teams.

One of the tools we provide is the RADAR, which shows how employees interact with others and how they are performing in different areas of work. The manager can use this information to identify areas where an employee may need additional coaching or support.

We also believe that managers should focus on quality rather than quantity. Leanmote provides the quantity so each manager can spend more time considering the quality of the work. By using data to identify the workload of each team member, managers can ensure that their employees are focused on producing high-quality work, rather than just completing tasks as quickly as possible.

With Leanmote, you’ll be able to see the performance of each employee in different areas. So it’s easier to distribute and organize the workflow to thrive as a team and not only as individuals. With RADAR, you can coach high-performing teams. 

A good example of leveraging data is Lionel Scaloni, Argentina’s World Cup coach. 

Despite the poor performance of Argentina in the past, Messi was impressed by Scaloni’s vision for the team.

Scaloni’s team was analyzing football players in a very particular way. They use the program Wyscout to understand every player in the world. Firstly, they broke down all the data to give Scaloni processed information, ready to use. This way, they could quickly know the movements, profiles and tactics of the rivals.

Scaloni didn’t have the experience as a coach but he had the right staff by his side. As a whole team, they thrived like never before. 

Also, with metrics it is easier to have transparency through all the strategic decisions you make, within a sports team or a company. You can gain trust and belonging from all your people.

Peak performance

So, you have Messi. You know you have a top performer but as we said, that’s only the beginning. Just like an elite athlete, this employee needs to be nurtured and supported to reach their full potential. 

How will Messi play with his peers?

How can managers provide the best working environment 

so everyone explores and boosts their full potential?

At Leanmote, we help managers create a self-coaching culture that promotes continuous improvement and supports the wellbeing of their team members.

Also, if everyone has their own metrics, it’s easier for them to focus on their opportunity areas. The manager-coach has to follow this improvement process, but everyone should also know how to reach that top performance by seeing the progress with data.  

In a remote work environment, this is even more important. With real-time metrics, you will have the visibility and understanding about your people that you need to make meaningful decisions. Personalized management and care for their wellbeing are key in this new world, in which the workforce is distributed and far from you. 

In conclusion, making informed decisions is crucial for the coach to build sustainable progress, and work towards a goal. A coach provides guidance, support, and accountability that are essential for achieving continuous progress.

Remember, the goal is not in the game itself but in the championship.

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Using data to understand the effectiveness of your decisions on employee motivation, retention, and productivity.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are increasingly turning to real-time people analytics to make informed decisions about their most valuable asset – their employees. 

People analytics involves analyzing data on employee motivation, wellbeing and productivity to gain insights into their impact on the organisation’s success. 

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Why measuring employee impact is key to company success? Which are the benefits of doing so? How to use people analytics to measure it? Keep reading to find out

Take control and measure with real-time data

Measuring employee impact is critical to understand how engineering teams contribute to the organization’s success. By doing so, companies can identify high-performing employees and teams to develop retention strategies. 

It also helps in identifying areas where employees need support and training to improve their performance.

Are you investing on changes and measuring the results with surveys? Too late.

Surveys are slow and sent after the changes. Your business can take track of the company’s behaviour in real-time and have data to measure accurately.  

More benefits of measuring the impact with Leanmote:

• Enhanced human connection and retention: when organizations understand and communicate the impact their employees have on the company’s success, it creates a sense of belonging and purpose, leading to higher retention rates.

• Improved productivity and efficiency: by identifying high-performing employees and teams, companies can replicate their success.

• Building a coaching company culture and wellbeing: employees receive constructive feedback and own their data which leads to continuous improvement and understanding of their wellbeing.

• Investing in what really matters: with accurate knowledge of results businesses can make intelligent decisions, leading to higher returns on investment.

“Knowing your people analytics is the first step. Then, data should be analyzed and used to make informed decisions on employee performance and development”

Leanmote walks you through using our platform and identifying important insights on the onboarding and also after that!

What about security and privacy?

Implementing people analytics can be challenging due to data privacy and security concerns, resistance to change, and a lack of skilled resources. 

However, Leanmote overcomes these challenges by providing a secure and easy-to-use platform that ensures data privacy and security. 

It also offers a fair exchange of value, benefitting both employees and the organization, and provides easy access to data, eliminating the need for specialized skills.

Measuring employee impact is crucial for the success of any organization. By using People Analytics to measure employee impact, companies can identify high-performing employees and teams, develop strategies to retain and engage them, and invest their resources in areas that matter the most. With Leanmote, implementing People Analytics is easier than ever before, ensuring companies can make data-driven decisions that lead to success.

Ready to reveal the truth within your engineering teams? 

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Discover your ally for quarterly briefings and improve performance. 

Leanmote People Analytics is a powerful tool that can help businesses of all sizes transform their operations and improve performance.

How can people analytics drive value for every stakeholder, from CEOs, CFOs, and CTOs to leaders and employees? Keep reading👇🏻.

🚀If the company is like a rocketship, then we are like the engineers who detect which part of the propulsion system needs more support and determine why the rocket is unable to reach the direction it was intended to go🚀

Leanmote: collecting data whenever, wherever

Our platform collects actively and passively all the data you need- and already exists- to get your people’s analytics. By opening Leanmote’s dashboard you can access valuable data about your teams, without sending boring surveys. 

Leanmote helps businesses collect, analyze, and act on workforce data. With Leanmote, businesses can gain a comprehensive understanding of their workforce and make data-driven decisions to build their culture and improve overall business performance. 

By using data, businesses can improve the employee experience inside the business, increase ROI, and improve operational efficiency. Also, attract and retain top talent, improve employee satisfaction and wellbeing, and ultimately create a strong company culture.

Swimming on a Data Lake🌊

Leanmote creates a comprehensive data lake, chock-full of valuable insights that you can extract and use to inform your company’s key performance indicators whenever you want.

You can access all the information you need to make informed decisions and achieve tangible outcomes without having to worry about data silos. 

Having a data lake dedicated to people analytics can offer the benefit of making your own queries, which allows for customized analysis and insights. 

By using this data to create custom queries, HR teams can uncover patterns, trends, and insights that can help inform strategic decisions. This can lead to a better understanding of employee behaviour and performance.

🌟Optimize your business by enriching queries and integrating Leanmote directly into your operational KPIs.🌟

How Leanmote adds value to every stakeholder

The top: CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, CHRO 🔝

As the top decision-makers in a company, the CEO, CFO, CTO, CHRO, and COO play a critical role in driving business performance. 

By using people analytics, these stakeholders can make data-driven decisions by identifying trends and insights. With information, they can make strategic decisions to improve the bottom line and the overall company performance. 

• CFOs can use people analytics to manage labour costs and optimize ROI.
• CTOs gain a deeper understanding of their teams, optimize performance, and foster overall growth.
• COOs can use it to improve operational efficiency and productivity.
• CEOs can use people analytics to identify skill gaps and develop training programs that improve workforce readiness.
• CHROs can use it to enhance their KPIs by identifying opportunities and high performers.

The ones in the middle: Engineering Managers 🙌🏼

As engineering managers, you play a pivotal role in fostering a cohesive team and ensuring project success. However, relying solely on comments and intuition can be limiting. 

With Leanmote, you can streamline performance reviews, identify promotion opportunities, manage projects, and address blockages more effectively—all backed by data-driven insights. We’ll even track the progress for you, making it easier than ever to keep up with employee performance and drive meaningful results!

We provide comprehensive one-pager data sheets, automating the performance review process and offering real-time visibility into your distributed or in-person teams. Leanmote equips you with the numbers and data needed to make informed decisions, driving results and team success.

Engineering Teams 👩🏻‍🦰👨🏽‍🦳🧑🏻🧔🏼👩🏾‍🦱

Empowering your team members to feel valued and self-coached is crucial for performance and wellbeing. 

With people analytics, employees can identify opportunities for growth and leverage their own data to make informed decisions about their daily work. In today’s dynamic business landscape, data-driven decisions are paramount for success. 

Embrace people analytics to optimize your operations, enhance performance, and adapt to the ever-changing demands of the engineering world.

Involve data in your business strategy, become a people-first organisation and drive value for everyone.

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Should we return or redesign the office?

After the pandemic, there are still unsolved issues about in-person work. We should rethink the working experience as a whole and learn from what we have lived in the recent past.

Return to the office

When the pandemic was controlled, there was a moment we thought we could go back to the office whatsoever. How many times did we desire to go out, have a chat with our peers and see other human faces? Well, the thing is we didn’t fully understand that we couldn’t come out unharmed from the quarantine period.

We are not the same, the world changed, and we changed. There is no going back to the pre-pandemic workplace. The answer to this challenge seems to redesign the office rather than push employees to return to work everyday as they used to do.

Envisioning the office that employees will return to

Rethinking new ways of working is the best any company can do at this time. Knowing what your employees need and want is crucial to make these decisions.

We can help you with some trends that can pay the way for a better working environment:

1. Identify the best in-person performing activities. Start gathering your people for these, such as brainstorming meetings or teamwork activities at the office.
2. Flexibility for the working hours. If your team goes to the office, don’t force them to fulfill a rigid schedule. Let them come relaxed and go home when they accomplished the objectives of the day. 
3. Give the power to your people! Let them agree as a team which day they want to go to the office. If someone propose to go to the office and see each other is better, you can wait for this to happen.
4. Continue to support and improve remote work. Use all the technology you have to make remote work, work. Use the evolving tools to constantly enhance the working experience. 

Considering work modes rather than working hours

There is a moment of the day that can be called your working time. But now, we are looking for a better work-life balance that can be reached by rethinking our way of work.

Redesigning the workplace is considering working nodes and leaving the concept of rigid working days. Adapt to the idea of what does the work need to be done, and what’s the best use of time and place you can do to meet the weekly objectives, is one of the biggest challenges of the moment. Keep that in mind and you’ll take straightforward steps to thrive as a flexible office.

Some work modes are:

-Concentration: just focus, quiet places and no notifications.

– Collaboration: moments or meetings to think together as a team.

– Connection: chatting and bonding is essential for a happy and engaged team. The little chat on the kitchen it’s still important.

– Breaks: refreshing is working time too. Set time for this!

Maximizing the benefits of in-person and remote work

You can decide whether these working modes can be done in-person or in a remote environment, you can try both and then decide!

Returning to the office should be a choice and a benefit for every employee, not a challenge. Ready to make this flexible working space?

Source:

Sarah Bankins, Macquarie University. (2022, November 17). Why your flexible work conversation shouldn’t start with “how many days in the office?” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-your-flexible-work-conversation-shouldnt-start-/?trackingId=

Let’s talk about performance. Everyone wants to improve performance, make it more efficient and achieve business goals. But who are the ones that are always monitoring performance? Managers. 

The goal? More productivity. The way? Empower your managers with real-time data to be good leaders and thrive with their teams.

Working better as a connected group

When you create a collaborative working environment, in which teams are encouraged to work together, positive results will appear for sure. This leads to an increase in productivity, with people who are eager to help each other and to do better at their jobs. 

Being connected is a human thing, we are constantly looking for a place of belonging, where we can be ourselves and trust our peers.  A connected group is not only productive but also happy which really increases the possibility to retain talent and have loyalty towards the company. This can be difficult when the workforce is distributed: some work from home, others go to the office, and others adopt a hybrid model. Understanding what’s happening on the other side of the screen and building a connected workforce is today’s challenge.  

How can you boost communications between teams and build a motivating working environment? By adopting intelligent solutions for managers. 

Connector Manager: leading high performing employees

Not every contact is meaningful. To connect more isn’t just checking on your people every day. You have to know them, and understand their feelings and background to develop personalized management.

The Gartner Report The Connector Manager. Performance Advantage claims that there is a type of manager that “instead of trying to provide or facilitate coaching to drive current performance, they focus on supporting the whole person to drive well-being and sustainable performance.” 

These managers are the Connector Managers, the ones who:

• Builds a good working environment.
• Measures the amount of feedback they give. They make sure the feedback is meaningful and customized.
• Prioritize creating strong relationships.
• Connects its team with others for professional development.

Connector managers also enhance the connections on three levels: manager with employees, communication and care within the team, and commitment towards the company. 

Now we know that real communication is the way to reach the ‘zone of optimal performance’ of employees. The thing is, these managers need more than apps- like Slack, Teams, Jira- to create true interaction. A frictionless source of information can enlighten them to understand their people, know their feelings and take action to get closer to them.

“The decisions being made are shifting away from intuition and becoming far more data-informed, which lets leaders unlock the power of their people.” Dr. Tyrone Smith, Jr., Udemy’s director of people analytics.

This is essential for a better working environment, to understand the talent lifecycle and to retain them. Providing people analytics to your managers helps them become employee engagement experts.

Adopting people analytics to enhance management and retain talent

With the right information, leaders can start their journey to be Connector Managers. Why is it wiser to upgrade the way of getting employees’ feedback? Because surveys are dying. Employees feel uncomfortable and unsure when responding to them because they don’t know if they are truly anonymous. With people analytics, that fear goes away because each person has control over their information.

At Leanmote, employees, managers, and owners have an account to see their own data. Managers have access to their team’s analytics and owners to the whole company’s information. But -and here is the point- everyone can choose what is shown on the platform, you own our data. We care about security and privacy and each one has the power to control it, Leanmote is a first-party data platform.

How can data analytics improve the measurement of employees’ performance? With crossed information is collected passively and actively by the platform. That insight gives accurate information in real-time, and lets managers make data-driven decisions. Also, Leanmote uses a Node Network Model regarding connectivity within the team, which makes life easier for leaders. It takes only a glance to understand the information.  

If leaders really see and understand their team, they can get closer to them and gain flexibility in their management.  People analytics “enhance employees’ work life, and introduce better workforce processes that ultimately connects people strategy to business strategy.”

Giving the right tech tools to leaders for better management helps companies to stop the exit and leverage high-performers, paving the way for business growth.