Growth & collaboration: How Siemens Software enhances employee development with Growthspace

Challenges

• Growing need for learning and development opportunities.
• Enrich learning and development offerings with personal growth opportunities.
• The necessity for efficient and cost-effective development solutions.

The Growthspace solution

• Personalized one-on-one development in multiple languages.
• Precision match of the expert to each participant, based on skill specialization & background. 
• Short, practical programs providing actionable tools.
• Easy integration into Siemens’ existing development frameworks, encouraging employee engagement.
  

“Employee feedback has been overwhelmingly positive… Growthspace’s precise expert matching significantly enhances the coaching experience for everyone involved, and makes them feel we created this experience just for them.” 

—Maytal Rubinstein, Knowledge Management & Learning Lead at Siemens 

Background

Being part of The Operational Excellence team within the Digital Manufacturing segment of Siemens Software, Maytal Rubinstein, focuses on agile and impactful operations, emphasizing the cultivation of a lifelong learning culture. The challenge faced was twofold: a rising demand for professional and personal development among global employees and the need for a solution that offered significant personal growth without extensive time or high financial commitments.

Maytal explains, “We were looking for a solution that will give them a boost and help them develop and increase their skill set and leave them with tools to take it forward.” Growthspace presented itself as an optimal solution, providing targeted, one-on-one skill development sessions tailored to immediate developmental needs.

Integration of Growthspace into the existing Siemens programs was driven by employee initiative, with high leadership support. Maytal emphasizes the importance of ownership, “We offer our employees a rich variety of learning programs, however, we expect team members to be proactive and take ownership and choose their preferred program ” This approach fostered engagement and commitment, crucial for the program’s success.

Working with Growthspace

Siemens has embraced Growthspace’s platform to address its unique talent development needs, focusing on delivering personalized one-on-one sessions that align with both professional and personal growth goals. By encouraging employees to take the initiative in their development, Siemens fosters a culture where proactive learning is not just encouraged but celebrated. To this end, employees work with their direct managers to align their goals with their growth plans. Throughout the 1:1 program, as well as after, both managers and employees provide feedback to ensure goals have been met.

To cater to its diverse global workforce, Siemens and Growthspace provide training, coaching, and mentoring in employees’ native languages, acknowledging and respecting cultural nuances. This tailored approach allows for specific, measurable outcomes such as increased employee satisfaction with development opportunities, which Siemens tracks through regular surveys and Growthspace’s platform.

Outcomes

The results have been notable. Managers now encourage participation, seeing the value in Growthspace for their teams. Maytal shares a key observation: “We’ve seen managers that encourage specific employees to go and pursue this after they had several employees already in the program.“ The key metric Siemens tracks to assess the success of the program is entirely individual: At the beginning of each sprint, the participants define a specific KPI with their managers that they would like to hit after 5 sessions. The results have been extremely high – 85% of the participants achieved the goals they defined at the beginning of the sprint, with an average score of 4.3 out of 5.

93% of the participants reported that the program made them more effective in their day to day, with an average score of 4.4 out of 5.95% of the direct managers of the participants said that they would recommend the program.  Multiple participants highlighted the expert matching and the applicability of the skills learned. One employee shared their experience: “The expert was able to bring out the strength that I didn’t know I had and take the courage to embark on a path that I would not have been able to start alone.” This personalized matching has been critical to the program’s success, ensuring that each participant receives development that resonates with their individual needs and cultural background. Maytal reinforced this by explaining that “Each participant feels that just for them, Growthspace was able to find a really amazing match,” says Maytal.