Societal Benchmarking

Enhancing a Leader’s Influence in the C-Suite

The Challenge

With uncertainty in the broader economy, our client recognized the strategic need to stay attuned to their workforce to be resilient through shifting market dynamics. As an analytical leader influencing C-level leaders, our client was seeking access to real-time insights to benchmark their workforce experience against the broader context in which the company operates. Recognizing that data drives conviction and conviction enables decision making, they were looking for a reliable source of workforce data to help influence leaders to act.

“Our leaders are making decisions in real-time. We need real-time access to real-time data so we can make the right decisions for our company and our workforce.”

The idealis Approach 

With data powered by CivicScience, idealis offers data and insights from over 100,000 U.S. workers representing the current U.S. workforce as measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hearing the questions that were on the clients mind and bracing for issues that may impact the workforce in the future, the idealis team provided our client with data and insights on emerging and existing trends through our Pulse of the U.S. Workforce Quarterly Reports. 

The report, designed by organizational psychologists and data scientists, leverages idealis’ proprietary human-centered approach to leadership to understand the drivers of the human experience at work across multiple levels - from how individuals are doing, to how leaders and teams are operating, to how organizations are functioning, to how workers are navigating societal dynamics in the world of work. With a range of 100,000-250,000 respondents across every sector, industry and geography in the U.S., the report armed our client with a benchmark to point to when reviewing their own data with C-level leaders in the company.

The Transformation 

Poised to influence with their own data coupled with industry specific data from idealis and CivicScience and broader benchmark data on the state of the workforce today, our client has been able to engage in discussions on critical topics impacting their workers - and the business, including how the organization is requiring employees to be back in an office, and what must be true for leaders and employees to be productive through that transition. 

Understanding of workforce trends and questions that are top of mind for the client and their leadership team

Perspective on the broader macro forces impacting business through a human-centric lens - including a customer and employee view of trends

Delivery of an insights report that provides real-time, just-in-time data that is relevant to the workforce, the industry and the issues it faces in the moment

Guidance on how the various drivers of the human experience can be addressed above and beyond existing initiatives

Recommendations for leveraging the data in the report to influence decision making and resource allocation

Development for analytics team members on how to best present data relative to their own to ensure the context is taken into account when influencing executive stakeholders

The Results

With the Quarterly Pulse report in hand, our client has been able to drive the right conversation and attention to topics that are impacting the workforce and worker productivity.

Understanding and alignment in the C-Suite on key topics to focus on in workforce efforts and initiatives
Confidence from the Board that actions are being taken to address workforce issues as they arise in the macro context
Increased awareness of internal data relative to external benchmarks to determine where best to spend effort or retract effort
Deeper influence and credibility with key stakeholders, including investors who seek to understand relative performance

"The idealis team is on the cutting edge of the workforce data available in the market. You can tell it was built by an Executive who faced hard questions in a Boardroom. It was made for the people, by the people, who need it most."

– [Executive, Healthcare Industry]

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