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EXcelerate Case Study | Arvesta

Tailoring learning content with employee experience metrics

Sector: Agriculture/Horticulture

Arvesta employs 2,300 agriculture, horticulture and retail experts in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. These local experts support farmers and growers by providing pragmatic and innovative solutions as they strive for a sustainable future. 

See how Arvesta used EX+ to drive their employee experience further

“Employee experience is never easy to measure, but for early career talent, it is especially difficult. We already invest a lot in helping our young employees thrive, but we were interested in seeing more data and getting new perspectives on what shapes their EX. Welliba’s science and solution helps us understand some new ideas to take the current listening approaches to a different level”

Jan Houben
Talent Manager

“Welliba’s EXcelerate report provided us with relevant insights into which investments and initiatives were paying off. It also helped us see risks and opportunities that we could not yet capture in data.

The findings aligned really well with previously reported feedback from our existing employee survey processes and internal audits.

We have augmented our existing people insights and roadmaps with actionable recommendations, enabling us to continue driving people and business growth. Additionally, we saved more than 40% compared to the cost of conducting an engagement survey for our entire workforce.”

Karin Van Roy
CHRO

Context
Measuring Internal Engagement Was No Longer Sufficient to Drive Growth

Understanding employee engagement has been the core of Arvesta’s people strategy for many years. Recent surveys showed that engagement scores were at a very high level but had plateaued. A new perspective was needed to understand the full holistic drivers of employee experience, identify possible areas of improvement, and benchmark Arvesta’s performance against industry standards. This would also allow Arvesta to refine its corporate EVP and further align it to employee expectations. 

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Solution
An Outward-In EX Perspective to Uncover New Insights

Employee experience is defined as the result of a unique and dynamic interaction between a person’s characteristics and their work environment and it is summarised in Welliba’s EX Index.

Welliba’s EXcelerate solution provides predictive Employee Experience (EX) insights without the need for traditional employee surveys.

By using AI to integrate and analyse data from various public data sources, it delivers relevant people benchmarks and insights that help organisations understand where there is competitive advantage to be gained or where there may be blind spots.

Benchmarking Arvesta's EX

Arvesta Score 3.5
Industry Score 3.4
Best in Class Score 4.4

The scores are normed & range from:
1= Highly improvable, 2= Improvable, 3= Average, 4=  High, 5= Excellent
Industry for Arvesta: Agriculture

The analysis of the Arvesta data highlighted three key boosters that support the firm’s strong engagement scores. It also flagged three areas seen as ‘blockers’ to a better employee experience:

Boosters

Company brand & reputation:
Strong brand affinity among employees. 

Company brand & reputation:
Meaningful roles that align with Arvesta’s mission and support of the agricultural community.

Company brand & reputation:
Strong and supportive relationships with peers and colleagues.

Blockers

Actionable feedback:
Enhanced two-way communication and more frequent and constructive opportunities for feedback.

Career Progression:
More transparent criteria for career progression.

Processes & Policies:
Exploration of changes to existing practices and greater consistency of policy enforcement.

Outcomes of EXcelerate
External Data Insights at Arvesta

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Workflow Automation

Easy set-up & scoping, no privacy, security or vendor onboarding before report generation.

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Broad Skill-Set

Opportunity to use external expertise to pilot an AI use case in HR & to get an “outward-in” perspective to impact people & business outcomes.

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Actionable Insights

Clear recommendations on how to leverage competitive advantage against chosen competitors. 85% alignment of findings against feedback from internal audit & engagement surveys.

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Resource Optimisation

The EXcelerate report replaced one of Arvesta’s planned engagement survey cycles.

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Improved Efficiency

No additional time was needed from employees to understand the impact of previous people- investment & initiatives.

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Cost Reduction

40% less cost.
(compared to 2300 people completing a survey)