Evalea Blog
In this blog, we will regularly deal with important HR topics for you and research them. We would like to offer you added value and present relevant topics as well as useful information for your everyday work in an interesting and easy-to-understand way.
The big Learning Journey update is here!
The time has finally come: The brand new Learning Journey module from Evalea is live – and it has everything HR professionals, HR developers and learning enthusiasts have been wanting for a long time!With this update, Evalea is taking digital education to a whole new...
Free Conversation Guide Template White Paper for Download
Why interview guides are indispensable A conversation guide is more than just a checklist. It is a common thread that guides through the conversation and ensures that all important points are addressed. The advantages are obvious: Structure and focus: A guide gives...
Skill Gap Analysis: How to Identify and Close Skills Gaps in Your Organization
What is a skill gap analysis? A skill gap analysis is a structured process that companies use to compare their employees' existing competencies with the skills they need. The aim is to identify skill gaps and close them in a targeted manner. This will ensure that your...
Free access to the Evalea e-learning platform for 10 non-profit organizations
A decade of Evalea – time to give back Last year was a very special one for us at Evalea: we celebrated our 10th anniversary! Ten years in which we have supported companies in getting the best out of their employees and taking their training measures to a new level....
Working together for efficient HR processes: Evalea and HR4YOU join forces
HR4YOU is one of the leading providers of HR software and provides the comprehensive platform for HR management in the partnership. At the heart of it all is a fully digital personnel administration system that covers all core processes – from the digital personnel...
E-Learning: The Future of Learning and the Role of Evalea
What is e-learning? E-learning refers to learning using electronic devices such as computers, tablets or smartphones. It allows access to learning content via the Internet or intranets and offers flexibility in terms of time and place of learning. This form of...
gastromatic & Evalea: A strong partnership for efficient HR work
Why gastromatic and Evalea? gastromatic is one of the leading software solutions for digital duty scheduling and time management. Evalea, on the other hand, offers a comprehensive platform for personnel development, from training and competence management to employee...
How to motivate your team in the long term – The 5 most effective methods
1. Recognition, appreciation and financial incentives Employees long for recognition for their work, both in a material and non-material sense. Praise and appreciation increase self-esteem and promote intrinsic motivation. A study by the Gallup Institute shows that...
Skillmapping tutorial with free tool
What is skill mapping? Skill mapping is a method to systematically record which competencies are present in a team or organization and where there are still gaps. This enables targeted employee development, optimized deployment planning and strategic personnel...
Why appraisal interviews are indispensable
What are appraisal interviews? Employee appraisals are structured, often periodic meetings between a manager and an employee. The aim is to enable an open exchange and to discuss topics such as goal achievement, professional development, feedback and challenges. They...
Personnel Development of the Future: Trends and Perspectives
Review: The development of personnel development 1. The beginnings: standardized training programs Just a few decades ago, personnel development was highly standardized. Companies rely primarily on classic further training, such as face-to-face seminars and workshops....
How companies will retain their employees in 2025
Strategies, trends and the decisive role of personnel development The world of work is changing rapidly. Skills shortages, Generation Z and Alpha with new expectations, hybrid work models and increasing competitive pressure make retaining talent more difficult than...
What personnel development measures are there?
What is Personnel Development?Personnel development encompasses all measures aimed at promoting the skills, qualifications and potential of employees. The aim is to promote the individual development of employees on the one hand and to ensure the long-term success of...
Evalea Interface to Personio
One of the most common questions we hear in product launches is, "How do we get our data in Evalea?" This question is understandable, because effective and smooth data transfer is crucial for many companies. No one wants to maintain their data twice, because it causes...
Employee appraisals: What is allowed – and what is not?
Employee appraisals are a central component of modern personnel development. They not only serve to reflect on and evaluate the performance of employees, but also to provide a platform for feedback, development opportunities and the discussion of future goals. In...
What does personnel development involve? – A comprehensive overview
The world of work is changing rapidly: digitalization, a shortage of skilled workers and the "war for talent" pose major challenges for companies. In order to be successful in this dynamic environment, companies must not only retain their employees, but also...
10 Years of Evalea: Success Story of Digital Personnel Development
Sometimes something big starts with a small idea. That is exactly the story of Evalea, a company that started ten years ago as a small evaluation tool and has now established itself as an indispensable and holistic software solution for personnel development. The path...
How to Effectively Onboarding with Evalea
Discover how the Evalea Learning Journey makes your onboarding even better.Julia's Path to Structured OnboardingJulia is an HR manager in a medium-sized company. For years, she has been struggling with the same problem: The onboarding process for new employees is...
Feedback and Performance Evaluation: The Key to Personnel Development
Feedback plays an essential role in personnel development. In various forms such as positive, negative, constructive, informal and formal, it promotes continuous learning and strengthens trust in the team. A successful feedback culture is based on three things:...
Learning in Old Age: How Vocational Education and Training Influences Brain Ageing
The idea that the brain could rust with age and that learning in old age is hardly possible is widespread. But science shows that this is not the case. In fact, the brain can remain amazingly flexible even as we age, thanks to an intriguing property called...
OKR – Guide for Companies
Discover what Ojectives and Key Results (OKR) are, why they're so helpful, and how you can successfully implement them in your organization. From theory to practice with tips for implementation. OKRs are a New PhilosophyImagine if your company achieved exactly the...
Digitize Employee Appraisals with Evalea
Employee appraisals are an essential part of personnel development and employee retention. But they are often associated with a high administrative effort. Evalea offers an innovative digital solution that simplifies and optimizes the entire process and helps you...
Educational Needs Analysis: Easy with Evalea
What is a Training Needs Analysis?In the dynamic world of personnel development , the training needs analysis is an indispensable instrument for making the need for further training or further education in the company visible. It enables companies to identify the gaps...
Promoting Personnel Development: Introducing Evalea with Grants
Promoting personnel development in one's own company means offering one's own employees development prospects. This increases employee loyalty and promotes employer attractiveness. Especially in times of a shortage of skilled workers, important know-how is thus...
Learning with the 70:20:10 Model
The classic further training measures of a few years ago, such as external seminars, conferences or further training, no longer have a 100% satisfactory effect for many companies today. They are often associated with high costs, a lot of time and the loss of work that...
Personnel Development – Strategic and Digital Implementation in SMEs
Digitizing Personnel Development in SMEs: How Does it Work?In today's world, many HR departments are faced with the challenge of digitizing their personnel development processes. In particular, the area of personnel development in SMEs and other company sizes, which...
The Evalea Story
The Evalea Success Story of Personnel DevelopmentThis article is about a very personal topic, namely our success story in personnel development. We would like to give you a few insights into the development of Evalea here. Why we do what we do and what makes our...
Business success through competencies
In this article, we explain exactly how these two factors are related and why you should always keep this fact in mind. First of all, we would like to explain again in detail how a competence is created, so that it is easier to understand later why it is such a...
Competence Analysis: Recording Employee Competencies
In the last few articles, we've discussed the basics of competence management, the agile approach, and modeling. But what comes after that? Once the competency model is in place and the requirements are clear, the current competencies of the employees must becan be...
Competency Models & Agile Skill Management
In the previous blog post we have already presented the most important basics on the topic of competence management/skill management. Here we will now take a closer look at competence models and why it is best to design them and competence management in general in an...
Competence Management – General Basics
Competence management is a very comprehensive topic that causes stomach aches for many managers in companies. It can be confusing due to the many different approaches, but once you look at the basics in a clear and structured way, it's pretty simple, helpful, and can...
Pressure to Perform and Attitudes to Learning
Unfortunately, although the topic of learning is such a big and important part of human life, it also has its downsides, which we would like to talk about in this post. What is the connection between pressure to perform and learning? The Attitude Towards LearningOne...
Tips for Effective Learning
As in our previous blog post , it is good for effective learning to combine several learning types/ways of learning, such as by listening, seeing, writing or reading. In this article, we would like to discuss other techniques that are rather less well known, but can...
How Does Learning Work and What are the Different Types?
Before we can dive into the different types of learning, we should first clarify how learning works in the brain and under what conditions.How Does Learning Work:In order to be able to learn effectively, it is helpful to know how the brain basically works. The...
How Evalea Supports your Appraisal Interviews
Thanks to the automation and digitization of processes, resources are noticeably conserved, leaving more time for content-related aspects: With Evalea, you can easily import personnel data from the existing system. Define the framework of the appraisal interviews...
Conducting and Following Up on Employee Appraisals Correctly
This article serves as information for both managers and employees to be able to conduct employee appraisals correctly. However, it is probably a bit more relevant for the former, as the greater part of the responsibility for leading, conducting and evaluating...
Types of appraisal interviews
When you hear the word employee appraisal, most people probably immediately think of the annual appraisal interview. Once a year, managers and employees come together to review performance, define goals and sometimes negotiate salaries. For example, a typical annual...
Evaluation of Training Programs: The Four Stages of Kirkpatrick (1959)
Why the Evaluation of Continuing Education is CrucialFor companies and organisations, the evaluation of continuing education measures is a central building block for sustainable competence development and for ensuring the transfer of learning into everyday working...
Evalea Week 2022
Even though the beautiful landscape was very inviting, there was little sign of peace and relaxation. Traditionally, we combine productive elements such as workshops with entertaining team-building measures during Evalea Week. This year, among other things, archery, a...
What is Quality Management Anyway and What Does ISO 9001 Do for Me?
What is Quality Management Anyway and What Does ISO 9001 Do for Me?Summary:Quality management is the necessary basis for planning and controlling knowledge and processes as well as continuously improving them. In addition, the introduction of a quality management...
Evaluation of Webinars
Corona led to a rapid increase in digital training opportunities for companies. Webinars are not yet very familiar to many companies and employees, at least not in the long term, it is particularly important to pay attention to the quality of them: If you have...
Creating Positive Stress with Demanding Work – The HRD-Eustress Model
The HRD-Eustress Model describes how work-related stress is converted into productive energy, benefiting both employees and companies. This model is based on psychological concepts and shows stress factors as well as targeted preventive measures for stress management....
Studies on Continuing Vocational Education and Training in Germany
At this point, we would like to give you an overview of the central studies that examine continuing vocational education and training in Germany. The aim is to make it easier for you to get started with the in-depth literature on in-company and vocational training. If...
HR Networks – Strong Together
Personnel Networks from Germany and AustriaAs a modern company in the field of personnel development, we welcome the great willingness to cooperate in the form of networks and the open, active exchange of HR managers. With regard to such a development in the HR...
How Can Training Success be Measured?
In the journal Personalwirtschaft, our Managing Director David Maurer presented our study on the "ideal approach" for the evaluation of continuing education measures. In addition to the top 5 evaluation criteria, the perfect implementation of an evaluation in order to...
Gamification in the Classroom and Business
Gamification, the application of game elements to non-playful contexts, is increasingly used in education and in companies to improve learning processes. The idea of integrating motivating game elements such as point systems, leaderboards and awards into lessons or...
Team Development According to Tuckman
According to Tuckman, teams go through different phases that come with a different learning process until they work well as a team.The Four-Phase Model According to TuckmanThe study is based on the finding that learning success within a team is highly informative...
Learning in the Mentee-Mentor Relationship (2013)
Mentee and mentor learn in different ways in a mentoring program.Content of the StudyThe study examines how mentor and mentee learn from each other and how this process changes over time. Jones looks at a small group of mentors and their mentees in great detail and...
Evaluation of In-Company Continuing Education and Training – Influencing Factors (2014)
The corporate culture and the support of the managers have the greatest influence on the evaluation process.Content of the StudySeveral studies deal with hurdles and problems in the evaluation of continuing vocational training in companies. This study therefore...
Age and Willingness to Continue Training (2011)
The relationship between age and willingness to undergo further training is influenced by the attitude of the employee and his or her supervisor.Content of the StudySeveral studies show that older employees are less likely to undergo further training than younger...
Continuing Education, Learning and Innovation (2014)
Investments in further training and personnel development lead to more innovation in companies. The effect can be increased by the right learning behaviour and innovation climate. Investments in Continuing Education - Content of the StudyThe study examined how...
Impact of Personnel Development on Corporate Success (2014)
The study examined how different dimensions of personnel development affect employees and the company's success.Content of the StudyExisting studies on the impact of personnel development on corporate success show different results. In order to investigate this in...
European Survey on Continuing Vocational Training in Enterprises (Destatis 2020)
On behalf of the European Commission, companies in all member states are surveyed every five years on their continuing education activities. Among other things, the survey provides data on further training opportunities, time required, costs and organisation....
Informal learning in companies
Why Informal Learning Plays a Key Role in CompaniesInformal learning plays a central role for companies that want to remain successful in a fast-paced, digitally-driven world. In contrast to formal learning opportunities such as training courses or seminars, informal...
The Transfer Model of Baldwin and Ford (1988)
The transfer model of Baldwin and Ford summarizes the influences on the transfer of trainings from 70 empirical studies into an overall model. According to Baldwin and Ford, the content of a training must not only be learned and retained, but also generalized and...