Emergy’s emotional skills training for Enento won first place in the international Merit Summit and Awards competition, which rewarded the best in leadership development.
Enento Group Oyj, a provider of digital business and consumer information services, has been awarded first prize in the Leadership Development category of the international Merit Summit and Awards competition. Enento competed in the category of medium-sized companies.
The win for Enento was achieved by Emergy’s Emotional Skills Training project, in which all of the company’s frontline employees studied emotional skills and how to use them in everyday working life for eight months. The training included e-learning, applied case clinics and peer learning with a designated sparring partner.
More commitment and willingness to learn
”We started the coaching project in a situation where we had a new CEO, a new strategy, a fairly recent merger and the first full organisational change negotiations in the company’s history.
As a result of the training, employees’ experience of self-learning and development, their commitment to the company increased and their satisfaction with management improved. I believe that when the pre-employees had better skills to deal with people’s emotions, they had a completely different ability to deal with the uncertainty caused by change negotiations, for example,” says Sari Ek-Petroff, HR Director at Enento.
The Merit Summit and Awards jury found Enento’s project to be a good example of how learning emotional skills strengthened the building of a corporate culture and ensured that everyone in the organisation speaks the same language.
The jury also praised the fact that the comprehensive coaching project was designed with a strong focus on business needs.
A credible way to develop modern leadership
Sari Ek-Petroff, Enento’s HR Director, and Ira Leppänen, Emergy’s emotional skills trainer, who attended the Merit Summit leadership development seminar in Milan last week, noted that the importance of emotional skills for the success of companies was highlighted in several presentations.
“The role of managers’ emotional skills in the success of a company has been confirmed by research and is now starting to be recognised internationally. It feels good to be recognised that emotional skills training is a credible way to develop modern leadership,” says Emergy’s Ira Leppänen.
“However, concrete methods for making emotional skills part of a company’s everyday operations do not exist in the world, and that is why we believe that the emotional skills training we have developed is an export asset for Finland. We have trained people from 32 different countries, and although the cultures are different, the issues of humanity in working life are similar everywhere,” Leppänen continues.
The emotional skills project, which has produced good results at Enento, will continue in the future: now all employees of the company will have access to emotional skills training.
“Our goal is to create a company culture that is unique to us, that cannot be copied and that engages our employees even more and takes their well-being into account in line with our values,” says Sari Ek-Petroff.
Previous winners include London Business School, INSEAD and ING.
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