CASE STUDY
stanford GRADUATE SCHOOL Of business
OVERVIEW
Reputation Management is a Stanford Graduate School of Business class to help current, and future, leaders conceive, author, rebuild, pivot, differentiate, and finally maintain a personal reputation to make a lasting, recognizable and powerful identity. The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University.
Everyone experiences cognitive and behavioral blockers, that hinder them from being their best selves. These blockers impact how they respond to situations, how they communicate, and ultimately how they show up in the world.
The challenge of busy lives and scaling coaching
This cohort experienced higher levels of stress due to busy class schedules, and for many, also managing full time work and family life commitments. They needed to raise awareness of the blockers that were holding them back and draining their capacity and energy. While Stanford GSB offers extensive, top-of-the-line support, including 1-on-1 coaching, these sessions had to be booked, and given the complexities of person-to-person services, they are hard to scale and be available on demand or when the student needs them.
The group included a variety of nationalities and a mix of those about to enter the workforce, as well as seasoned professionals focused on leadership development.
To achieve the goal of raising awareness and creating healthier behaviors and thinking habits, participants could opt in to 8-weeks of MEvolution as a part of the course.
A lot more of my friends started telling me that they saw the improvements. I felt a difference in my energy levels and how I presented myself to others. People would come up to me and tell me, you’ve changed a lot. My close friends would tell me around like two weeks in, you’re a lot more introspective now.
DIANE JIANG
APPROACH
SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION
Programming included the full EMQ evaluation and then 7-weeks of development exercises, guided reflections and content that was delivered each week. The positive results seen by participants is due to the customized roadmap of exercises to address the blockers which is based upon the individuals results from their evaluation. This approach ensures the fastest and greatest impact to the persons thoughts, behaviors and actions.
STAKEHOLDER INSIGHTS
The lecturer received a report of participation, as well as aggregate data regarding the cohorts’ blockers, and the impact the program had on the participants.
REAL LIFE PRACTICE
Delivery of the techniques and new thought processes allowed participants to practice in the context of their real life, expediting increased awareness, better decision making, and sustained change.
24-7 ACCESS AND INDIVIDUAL FLEXIBILITY
While course content was unlocked each week to follow a recommended cadence, participants could complete exercises and reflections at their own pace to allow for flexibility that fit the ebb and flow of life. While there was a positive correlation between self- indicated effort, and outcomes experienced, every participant had an influential key take-away.
Participants had the freedom to choose the amount of time they wanted to spend on their MEvolution. The average time spent by participants ranged between 30 minutes and 2 hours, with the average being 1 hour dedicated to exploring and practicing removing their blockers. Every participant recorded gaining valuable take-aways with a number indicating major learning and growth beyond anything they had experienced in the past.
All content and materials were desktop and mobile enabled so that participants could complete work where and how they needed as well as have availability 24/7 so that they could use the techniques in the moment.
86%
Indicated their every-day awareness had increased
64%
Indicated their response to situations have improved
60%
Indicated that their wellbeing was positively impacted
68%
Indicated they were better able to pause and see things differently when situations arose
RESULTS IN JUST 8 WEEKS
Participants felt and saw improvements in a matter of weeks, feeling that critical aspects of resiliency and cognitive flexibility had improved such as the regulation of emotions and their response to situations.
Results also demonstrated the connectivity between blockers and that by working on just one of their internalization blockers brought fast impact across several areas, such as interactions with others and setting and maintaining boundaries.
SHOW UP BETTER
Nearly two thirds felt the program enabled them to show up as a better version of themselves
INCREASED AWARENESS
All participants indicated increased awareness to the impact of blockers in their lives and the benefit of the process
DECISION MAKING
Just over 40% indicated their decision making had improved
REGULATION OF EMOTIONS
Half indicated being able to better regulate their emotions
TIME MANAGEMENT
Just over a third indicated they were better able to manage their time
RELATIONSHIPS
Just over a third indicated that their interactions with others had improved
CONCLUSION
For employees to achieve awareness and sustainable change in their choices and actions, that lead to improved wellbeing, performance, resilience, collaboration and fulfillment, companies need to offer programs that are 1) tailored to address the specific blockers of the individual and, 2) delivered in the order and manner that accelerates and maximizes the positive impacts for the individual.
By leveraging the power of data and algorithms, MEvolution’s EMQ assessment and personal development process can rapidly and accurately assess a person’s blockers and create a personalized learning plan based on their unique results. The learning roadmap is delivered in focused, prescriptive, and manageable steps. The built-in monitoring process highlights the measurable sustained changes in how people think and feel in a matter of weeks. MEvolution has the ability deliver outcomes comparable to a coached experience, at scale.
MEvolution has created the first way to accurately quantify blockers to human capacity and combined this with a tailored and scalable learning experience to enable people to show up as the very best version of themselves.
ALLISON KLUGER
Lecturer Stanford Graduate School of Business
“As a manager, and leader, this tool brings so much value. We cannot get the best performance out of team members unless they understand how they work best.
This enables you to have a deeper understanding of what success looks like to each and every team member. It helps you to mange expectations and deliverables in a more focused and impactful way.
The exercises are carefully curated to encourage us to reflect, take notes, and revisit events and instances where our personal blockers are taking over. Just the exercise and discipline of using it over time makes us a much more aware and effective participant in our own life at work and home.”
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MEvolution is a science-based personal growth system that measures and systematically increases human capacity by teaching people how to manage, direct, and optimize their personal energy. Through our scalable solutions, we work with teams and organizations to create lasting shifts in old thinking patterns and behaviors and remove internal blockers to success. Our mission is to energize the world, because we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to live life at full capacity. And with the only research-based blueprint to being a positively energized human as our cornerstone, we are uniquely equipped to make this happen. With results to performance, resilience, engagement, innovation and wellbeing seen and felt within as little as a few weeks, MEvolution is the fastest way to show up at full capacity!