Calnex Case Study - Power Skills
Calnex Solutions was founded in 2006 in Linlithgow, Scotland, and now has locations in Northern Ireland, England and California, and sales teams in China and India making them a truly multinational and multicultural team.
As trailblazers in the test and measurement industry, they design, produce and market test instrumentation and solutions for network synchronization and emulation, helping to manage the performance of critical telecoms network infrastructure.
The Challenge
Calnex experienced a 40% growth in turnover and headcount in 12 months! In order to support their people through the changes, Calnex wanted to strengthen essential skills across their business, cement their culture and prepare for future growth.
The Solution
Connect Three created a survey and compiled the results of 130 responses in order to develop the right training on the best topics for the team. We then created the Power Skills Workshop Programme as a series of interactive sessions designed to aid the development and improvement of non-technical skills.
We built the sessions to be engaging, exciting, and an opportunity for Calnex people to network outside of their teams. The sessions were open to all employees.
The workshops covered 13 Power Skills:
- Understanding Self & Others
- Resilience & Change
- Time Management
- Super Powering Communication & Influencing
- Intro to Coaching
- Project Management
- Courageous Conversations
- Preparing for and Participating in Meetings
- Teamwork & Contribution
- Intro to Emotional Intelligence
- Intro to Psychological Safety
- How to develop a Global Mindset
- Creativity & Innovation
Catering for a Busy, Multinational Workforce
So that we could accommodate the most amount of people across the organisation, we offered a flexible approach to the training. We provided in-person, hybrid, and remote training options, and repeated each training 4 times in order to cover a variety of time zones and locations. As the courses did not need to be attended in order, people could choose the best time and day to suit them for each course they wanted to attend.
The Impact
Connect Three has worked with Calnex on multiple projects over the last 2 years. We ran the Power Skills Workshops as part of a larger programme of work with Calnex that included:
- helping them to create a people strategy
- designing and developing a leadership training programme
- helping with Insights at a team level
- carrying out deep dive and exploration sessions with the CEO & HR teams
- and a senior team development programme including creating psychological safety and EDI awareness in order to help shape culture.
“The first round of the programme attracted around 50% of our workforce with over half of them attending 3 or more sessions. There was great feedback from the first round participants. In our recent annual employee survey, 97% of respondents believe there is sufficient opportunity to meet their individual career/growth aspirations within Calnex.”
We have recently launched a second cohort of the Power Skills programme and are working with the Calnex USA team on some personalised development work to suit their specific needs.
What Calnex Says...
The programme is already achieving much of what we hoped it would:
- The chance for employees to benchmark and improve on skills.
- A safe, enjoyable and collaborative learning environment.
- Training that will support us all through growth and change.
- A learning experience that will support us in our desire to develop and create learning opportunities for our teams.
- Raising self-awareness to support us all through learning and change.
- Accessible learning that doesn’t take up too much time encouraging employees to take part.
- A diverse range of employees attending from different departments and disciplines including 22 nationalities at Calnex Linlithgow alone.
- More people connecting and learning with employees from different areas of the business.
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