Valamis Finland

13/09/2024

🚀 Good news Friday: We're hiring! 🚀

Do you speak Finnish and have a passion for numbers? We're on the lookout for a talented Accountant to join our team in Joensuu or Oulu!

If you're ready for your next career move and want to work in an exciting, fun company, this is your chance. 🌟

🔗 Learn more and apply here: https://hubs.la/Q02PPgC00

Don't miss out – we can't wait to meet you!

Etsimme huolellista kirjanpitäjää Joensuuhun tai Ouluun Valamikselle. Tarjoamme mahdollisuuden työskennellä osittain etänä, kehittää osaamistasi ja olla osa kansainvälisen teknologiayrityksen menestystarinaa. Hae nyt ja liity osaksi huippua taloustiimiämme.

05/09/2024

Tekoäly, strategia, tavoitteet, kehityskohteet... Kysyimme suomalaisilta yritysoppimisen parissa työskenteleviltä heidän näkemyksiään yritysoppimisesta Suomessa. Raportti on nyt julkaistu!

Raportista selviää muun muassa:

📊 Mitkä tekijät nähdään suurimpina haasteina osaamisen kehittämisessä.

🤖 Miten keinoälyä hyödynnetään tai haluttaisiin hyödyntää osaamisen kehittämisessä ja miten johdon ja työntekijöiden kokemukset eroavat.

🎯 Millaisia kehitysmahdollisuuksia yritykset näkevät ja miten oppimisen koetaan tukevan organisaation tavoitteita.

👉 Lue koko raportti ja tutustu tarkemmin havaintoihin: https://hubs.la/Q02NyRYl0

Kiitos kaikille, jotka osallistuivat kyselyymme ja jakoivat arvokkaita näkemyksiään!

Raportti perustuu kyselytutkimukseen, joka kohdennettiin suomalaisyrityksille alkuvuonna 2024. Tutustu kyselyn tuloksiin.

28/08/2024

Let’s face it—nobody wakes up excited for another round of compliance training. It’s necessary, sure, but it doesn’t have to be boring.
Here’s how you can make it a little less painful:

1️⃣ Keep it relevant
Focus on what's truly important to your team's daily work.

✔️ Example: A tech company customizes its training to cover real-world scenarios like phishing attacks. This approach makes the content practical and directly applicable, boosting engagement.

2️⃣ Make it interactive
Move beyond the traditional slide decks by incorporating quizzes, scenarios, and discussions.

✔️ Example: In business consulting, a firm created an interactive program where employees role-play different client situations. This hands-on method helps make complex rules easier to understand and remember.

3️⃣ Break it down
Avoid overwhelming your team with long training sessions. Break the content into shorter, manageable segments.

✔️ Example: A retail company offers 5-minute video modules that employees can watch on their phones during breaks. This flexibility allows learning to fit seamlessly into busy schedules.

4️⃣ Use real stories
Share real-life examples to make the training more relatable.

✔️ Example: A healthcare organization uses case studies from actual industry breaches to highlight the real consequences of compliance failures. This makes the importance of compliance more tangible and impactful.

5️⃣ Reward participation
Encourage engagement by offering incentives.

✔️ Example: A hospitality company introduced a rewards program where employees earn points for completing training modules. These points can be exchanged for perks like extra break time or gift cards, motivating employees to actively participate.

Compliance training doesn’t have to be a fest. However, with these tweaks—and some creative approaches inspired by various industries—you can transform it into something people might actually look forward to, or at least not dread as much!

23/08/2024

Let’s be honest: no matter how much we prepare, there’s always that one new hire who finds a unique way in. But with our updated onboarding checklist, we’re here to help make sure that number gets a little smaller.

Here’s to fewer surprises next week!
Download the checklist 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02MkZtY0

21/08/2024

The real cost of boring and ineffective training💸
or How our customer saved 4.2 million euros with smarter training👇

Ineffective training isn’t just a time-waster—it’s a money drain.

Imagine thousands of employees stuck in long, boring sessions that don’t deliver results.

The cost? Far more than you might think.

One of our customers faced this exact problem.

👉With 60,000 employees, they realized their current training program, delivered by another learning platform, was falling short.

It was long, tedious, and wasn’t delivering the results they needed.

That’s when they turned to our Valamis platform for help.

Using our data-driven tools, they analyzed their training and found a way to reduce it by 2 hours per employee without sacrificing effectiveness.

The impact?

👉They saved 120,000 hours of employee time. At 35 euros per hour, that adds up to 4.2 million euros saved. Now, they have a proven cost saving of 43% compared to their previous platform.💸

The lesson?

This case highlights a critical lesson for any organization: opting for the cheapest learning solution might seem like a cost-saving measure in the short term, but it can lead to hidden costs in the long run.

30/05/2024

🚨 Today is the day - don't miss this webinar!

Join the discussion with Laura Overton and Mika Kuikka to learn how to engage your employees in skills development.

Here's what you will learn:

1️⃣ Understand the cause of low employee learning engagement.
2️⃣ Get tips on how to make your team excited about learning new skills.
3️⃣ Learn how the right tools can make training more effective for reskilling and upskilling.
4️⃣ Find out how combining tech with the science of learning can majorly boost your team's performance.

If you can't make it to the live session, sign up here and we'll send you the recording 👉
https://hubs.la/Q02yXFWQ0

Learn the routes that cause poor employee engagement and how to encourage ongoing learning after employee compliance training.

15/04/2024

We received a 5-star rating from the Finnish IT media! That’s not a bad way to start the week, right? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The review came in an article titled “Kouluta henkilöstöä paremmin,” which translates to “Train your staff better.” It’s like they knew exactly what we’re all about here at Valamis 😊

Here’s what they liked about us:

💪Seamless integrations that smoothly connect with your existing systems.
💪 A user-friendly interface that everyone can get behind.
💪 A complete solution that handles all your learning needs.
💪 Our smart data analysis tools that help you make sense of all the learning stats.

Big thanks for the shout-out! We’re here to keep making learning easier and more effective for everyone.

03/04/2024

Say hello to the new, updated Valamis🎉

We're super excited to show you a fresher, cooler, and all-around new Valamis today 💜

It's a big day for us—and we hope for you too.

Over the years, we've realized that we've outgrown ourselves. We want to be clearer about who we are and share our whole selves in our own way.

Think about it like this… We are Valamis, 20 years in the making. We fought hard for our place. We faced challenges, ups and downs. Now, we're showing you our new look and feel after the last update in 2018.

It's not just about new colors. It's about being more us.

We have always believed that learning is key for everyone.

Now, we want to make learning a big part of every company with our team and your help.

We want to help you connect the dots between your business and the future by building bridges of understanding.

So, meet new Valamis. The L&D solution that helps you understand how your company learns best.💛

Check out the link in the comments to see what's new, and tell us what you think at first glance.

20/03/2024

What makes Finns happy...

We posed this question to our Finnish colleagues.

Here's what we got:

"Finding meaning in what I do brings me happiness."
“Nice colleagues.”
“Hobbies: guitar, disc golf. Spending time with friends. Getting good results in work”
“Warm summer day with burgers and beer. Lake view, silence, no other people around (maybe a few). Paydays. Motorcycle.”
“Nature, in the spring - gardening”
“Sun. Good sleep.”
“Weekend. Golf. Tennis. Gaming”
“Finnish nature, ice-swimming, and obviously having "Sisu" “
“Embrace the diversity in our culture and that I am not in the hospital”
“Family, summer, swimming, nature, and good MRR obviously”
“It depends on the day. Lunchtime. 1:1 with Ville. Free coffee.”
“Valamis”
“I don't know” x 5 times

Simple pleasures, aren't they?

We discovered that Finns also had their doubts about World Happiness Report, reacting with "again" "unbelievable." They can't pinpoint exactly why, but for the seventh consecutive year, they've been named the happiest people in the world.💙

Perhaps what they're missing is that happiness in Finland is unique. As we see they find joy in the simplicity of everyday life without overthinking. It's not about the loud laughs or broad smiles; it's about the sun and feeling inside. Finns correct us (foreigners) if we are wrong.

So, if you happen upon a Finn who appears sad (in your opinion) without a smile, most likely, he is infinitely happy, at least according to the report.

To all our Finnish colleagues 🫶

29/05/2023

Laajennamme mahdollisuutta 4-päiväiseen työviikkoon kaikille Valamiksen toimistoille maailmanlaajuisesti! 🌏

Testasimme 4-päiväistä työviikkoa Suomen toimistoillamme marraskuusta huhtikuuhun, niin että pilottiin osallistuminen oli työntekijöille vapaaehtoista. Tavoitteena oli nähdä, parantaisiko lyhyempi työviikko pilottiin osallistuvien valamislaisten yleistä hyvinvointia ja sitoutuneisuutta.

Meillä on ilo sanoa, että kokeilun tulokset olivat niin positiivisia, että otimme lyhennetyn työajan mahdollisuuden käyttöön kaikissa Valamiksen toimistoissa ympäri maailmaa! Laajennettu pilotti jatkuu vuoden 2023 loppuun asti, minkä jälkeen arvioimme tilannetta taas uudelleen.

Tässä on joitakin tuloksia pilottikyselyistä:

💚 Hurjat 100 % osallistujista oli täysin samaa mieltä siitä, että nelipäiväinen työviikko on parantanut heidän fyysistä tai henkistä hyvinvointiaan. 57 % sanoi sen parantuneen paljon ja 43 % sanoi sen parantuneen hieman.

💚 Pilotin loppukyselyssä 90,5 prosenttia osallistujista oli sitä mieltä, että lyhennetyllä työajalla oli myönteinen vaikutus heidän tuottavuuteensa.

💚 Ennen pilottia vain 36 % osallistujista arvioi työhyvinvointinsa hyväksi tai erinomaiseksi. Pilottijakson loppuun mennessä luku oli noussut 76 prosenttiin.

💚 Parannettavaa on arjen käytännön asioissa. 26 % osallistujista koki, että heidän tiimeissään ei huomioitu 4-päiväistä viikkoa tarpeeksi hyvin esim. kokouksia järjestettäessä.

💚 Osallistujat ehdottivat myös mahdollisuutta lyhyempiin työpäiviin (6 tuntia päivässä, 5 päivää viikossa) 4 päivän työviikon rinnalle, ja tämä toive on nyt kuultu! Näin valamislaiset voivat valita sen itselleen sopivimman vaihtoehdon työn ja vapaa-ajan yhteensovittamiseen.

Näin kommentoivat työaikapilottiin osallistujat:

"Minulla on enemmän aikaa rentoutumiselle ja harrastuksilleni, joten töihin palatessa minulla on uusia ideoita ja näkökulmia. Olen usein keskittyneempi ja tehokkaampi työaikana."

"Paras työsuhde-etu mitä firma voi työntekijöilleen tarjota."