Valamis’ 2021 Highlights and Goals for 2022

Valamis also attended

• Inspire HR virtual event
• Learntec xChange
• elearning Summit in Vienna, Austria
• elearning Summit in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• elearning Summit in Zurich, Switzerland

2 papers and 4 templates published

• Develop and Maintain Strategy-Driven Learning Culture
• L&D Strategy Framework – Compose and Measure Your L&D Strategy
• RFP for Learning Solutions
• Exit Interview Form
• Succession Planning
• Onboarding Checklist

11 webinars

• Focus on the Outcome, not Features – Succeed with Learning Technology
• Deliver a Modern Workplace Learning Experience – “The Art of the Possible”
• Build Organisational Resilience – How Learning & Sisu Sustain Organisations in Crisis and Beyond
• Developing a High Impact Learning Culture
• Learning Analytics & xAPI – Analyse the Impact of Your Organisation’s Learning
• The What, Why & How of Digital Learning Transformation
• Developing Leaders for a Changing Workplace
• Increase Motivation and Engagement in the Workplace
• How to Infuse DEIB into Your Business Strategy and Operations
• How to Build an End-to-End Learning Ecosystem for Today’s Workforce
• The Mindset and Tools L&D Needs to Thrive in the Year Ahead

Valamis & sustainability

• Valamis updates its sustainability focus areas
• Valamis offers six months of paid maternity leave to all employees
• Valamis Sustainability Review 2021

Product development achievements

• a new way to create and manage dynamic audiences.
• Valamis App in MS Teams and integration into MS Teams webinar to give people easy access to their learning.
• fully renewed reporting and analytics solutions with a vast range of further opportunities for more advanced learning analytics.
• new learning content service providers: Udemy and getAbstract.
• new eCommerce payment gateway Stripe.
• Fastly CDN implementation for improved performance.
• updated automated security controls with QualityGates and Dependency Audits.

2021 Valamis Statistics

Learning together

• 160 new Valamis lessons – and we integrated with LinkedIn Learning, bringing us over 7000 curated lessons!
• 7,907 logins to Valamis Learning Platform by our employees
• 11,799 completions of micro-learning content

Developing together

• 38 employees changed roles through internal career development
• 8 participants in the internal mentoring program
• 9 ValamisTalks – presentations by our colleagues – held during the year. Topics included customer cases, work culture in different countries, as well as presentations on different roles at Valamis.

1000 bottles of beer

1000 bottles of Valamis beer “Time” were brewed. Time is a citrusy, hoppy Indian Pale Lager, and is the 8th Valamis beer ever produced.

The beer label was designed by our Marketing Specialist (Benelux) Kulvinder Singh.

One wellbeing challenge

When you take care of your mental health, you feel good about what’s happening in your life, and you feel a sense of connection to others around you. During Mental Health Awareness month, Valamisians had the opportunity to participate in our wellbeing challenge where they completed small tasks for three weeks, from taking meditation breaks to getting outside for a nature walk.

Valamis Nestors

Every month, we celebrate our Nestors – the Valamisians who have been at the company for 3 or more years. They are the walking databases that know the company inside out! In 2021 we celebrated 38 Nestors who had 3, 5 or 10 years of working history with Valamis:

• 7 people who have worked at Valamis for 10 years
• 9 people who have worked at Valamis for 5 years
• 13 people who have worked at Valamis for 3 years

Participation in Kilometrikisa

The Valamis team has traditionally participated in the Finnish bicycling challenge Kilometrikisa, which helps collect money for charity. This year, Valamisians did a fantastic job and bicycled more kilometers than any previous year!
The Valamis team had 35 members and during the time period of May 1st to September 22nd, and they:

• bicycled 38 069,9km
• saved 2664 litres of gasoline by biking instead of driving cars
• saved 6660 kg of Co2-emissions
• collected 1523 euros to charity for Finnish Red Cross

Looking back

Valamis CHRO Maria Vihtkari summarised the year 2021 for us:

“2021 was (again) a year of changes. We focused our leadership on change and empathy, while in the middle of ongoing changes in the business environment with the pandemic and unprecedented risks. We learned to transform and overcome challenges with a focus on resilience, wellbeing, and leadership.

During the year 2021, we focused to strengthen employees´ wellbeing with different actions. According to the 2021 Employee Wellbeing Survey, 88% of our employees agree some level to the statement “Employee wellbeing is fully supported in our company”. We were able to bring face-to-face meetings back and strengthen our sense of community. During the year, we also made learning easier and more available for every employee with a LinkedIn Learning integration to our own Valamis LXP. We believe that when employees are financially invested, they want to work. When employees are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”
– Maria Vihtkari, Chief Human Resources Officer

The Vision for 2022

“We have a really exciting roadmap set for 2022. What is most interesting for me personally is that we are going to further increase the intelligence of our platform and utilize machine learning more broadly in our end-to-end capabilities. We have also set up ambitious goals for growth, which we are going to be busy fulfilling throughout the year. “
– Jari Järvelä, Chief Visionary Officer

*It is with deep regret that, since publication, Valamis has now closed the Petrozavodsk office due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.