Help leaders give feedback, listen and handle difficult conversations.
Ovida turns real leadership conversations into opportunities to learn. Show people specific moments to review, help them rehearse a different approach, and track their progress alongside your development program.
Why the usual approaches fall short
In person training is expensive, time consuming and the benefit small.
Face to face training has its place but the research shows the benefits are far smaller than you would expect.
controlled studies reviewed, across roughly 28,000 professionals
is how much educational meetings improve professional practice
thing none of them measured: the conversations afterwards
Sources: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, educational meetings
Why it matters
Research shows better leadership (communication) improves results.
There are many sources of research showing the benefit of investing in your leaders and managers. What Ovida does is measure and improve your leaders ability to communicate effectively.
more profitable, for teams with engaged managers (Gallup)
revenue growth where leadership pipelines are strong (DDI)
higher engagement and lower turnover in strong leadership cultures (McKinsey)
Figures published by Gallup, DDI and McKinsey respectively, cited as industry research rather than as Ovida outcomes.
Nobody gets experience in a lecture theater. The same is true for leadership skills.
- Leadership books don't change behaviors
You can read every book on the shelf. If you walk into the office on Monday and do the same thing, nothing has changed. Reading about a difficult conversation and holding one are different skills.
Ovida gives you a safe place to practice the conversation, and measures whether the behavior actually moved.
- Workshops are pitched at the average person
It isn’t possible for a trainer to meet the level and complexity of all those in the room. So everyone leaves with their own notes and very few put into practice the training.
Ovida gives feedback on your conversations, so what you work on is what you specifically need to change.
- One-to-one development is expensive
A good executive coach changes how someone leads. They also cost, and there are only so many hours, which is why that feedback has always been reserved for the succession list.
Ovida is efficient, effective and scalable, so the same feedback reaches every leader rather than the top ten.
Practice beats theory, and the practice can be measured.
Good leadership is skill gained through practice, accepting feedback and continuous improvement.
Ovida measures the leadership conversations people are already having, against the behaviors your organization decided matter. Ovida shows exactly the moments that worked and which can be improved.
- The same behaviors scored the same way every time, so progress is comparable across quarters and cohorts.
- Role-play happens privately, with no real-world consequence for getting it wrong.
Leadership behaviors
How Ovida supports your program
Specific feedback like this used to be reserved for a handful of high-potentials. Ovida makes it possible for all leaders to get real time feedback and improve.
Development that reaches the whole tierOvida measures communications skills in a consistent way over time allowing you to track performance.
Organizations get metrics on improvementPractice the difficult conversation, the negotiation, the pitch, get feedback, practice again and improve.
Practiced before it mattersOvida is scalable, has multiple applications and benefits.
Leadership is judged on conversations, and until now the only feedback on them came from whoever happened to be in the room.
- The leaderFeedback on the conversations you actually had
Not on a course you attended, and not on a colleague opinion delivered a quarter late. Specific, private, and tied to the moment it refers to, which is what makes it possible to act on.
- The organizationDevelopment that reaches the whole tier
The feedback that genuinely changes how someone leads has always been reserved for the succession list, because a skilled human giving it is expensive. This is the first version of it that reaches everyone.
- The teamTheir manager got better at the thing that affects them
People do not experience their manager development plan. They experience the difficult feedback conversation, the delegation that was clear or was not, and the decision that got explained or only announced.
Questions we often get.
What Ovida measures, how the scoring is checked, what happens to your data, and the questions people ask about leadership development.
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