We give you an easier way to discover and share your teams unique talent & capability - ideal for kick-starting new teams and development planning.
Everyone has a unique talent. However, most people struggle to identify and articulate what they do that’s valued and unique. We make it easier for teams - by guiding them through an activity based process to reveal their intrinsic, human capability. Giving you - the knowledge you need to progress them beyond their current role.
When people have been in organizations a while, it's easy to lose track of their personal preferences & capability. We provide quality diagnostic tools to build a data-based picture of your team’s individual strengths, preferences & skills.
Providing you new insights that may be hidden otherwise - that could fuel future productivity and growth.
Skills are the SuperFuel of the future. However most managers can’t identify and therefore don’t utilise the full depth of their teams skills. We help - by taking existing knowledge bases on your people (CVs/Linked In etc) and scanning for skills, mapping them into a ‘3-layer stack’. This gives you real-time visibility of the full capability of your team, to harness for new projects.
For new teams or dynamic / remote teams - it’s often hard to understand who people are, how they work, their background experience and what they uniquely offer. It's also hard for many people to communicate their value - they need a good process.
Our 'Story' makes it easier for people - by co-authoring their value statement with them, making team communication and sharing easier.
Often new managers inherit teams and can only rely on limited information about their capability - their CV on file. We make it easier to understand the full capability of your team, and plan their development by standardizing data profiles of their working style, strengths, skills and career needs.
Making development planning more accurate and faster.
Co-Authored Insights on your Teams
AI-Authored 'SuperPowers'
Activity & Insight reports on digital Dashboard
Inferred Skills & Experience automatically from CV / Linked In
Ability to integrate with existing HR processes
Data-driven context to our recommendations engine to ensure precision guidance
Integrated with ACE® Chat
We work with small-medium businesses who may not have access to enterprise HR resources or people. Our platform sits alongside your existing tools & processes - giving you a ‘light’ alternative to new critical tools, typically only available inside HRIT Enterprise systems.
What you probably already have, that we complement:
Recruitment & role Templates
Payroll
Onboarding & Contract Templates
Leave Management
Onboarding and Induction
Basic Performance Review Templates
Compliance Reporting
What you need but can’t access easily:
Skills Frameworks & Competency Modelling
Progression & Career Pathing Recommendations
Workforce Planning & Insights for Scenario Modelliing
Role Matching & AI Recommendations
Cross-Functional Mobility Opportunities
Culture & Values Evaluation & Insight
Diversity & Inclusion Analytics
Users benefit from having available to them 24/7 an online, personal, career guide to support them with both solving everyday challenges, as well as helping them grow new skills and craft career pathways. This type of technology is ideally suited for introverts, neuro-divergent people or those that prefer to interact with technology vs humans on solving complex personal problems in a private and process-driven way
We keep all private & personal data secure and meet global data protection standards of the highest order. No personal data shared on the platform is shared with any other organisation. All reporting is anonymised and permissioned through our T&C's.
Actvo comprises a mobile-optimised web-app and cloud-hosted server components, which together utilise state-of-the-art frameworks and services to deliver a powerful, intelligent virtual career management agent experience. Our databases and AI models are hosted in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure data centres which are built with the latest in security and safety features (complying with the highest industry security and safety standards), guaranteeing availability and privacy of your data. The Actvo system architecture utilises dynamic, modern cloud provisioning and scaling technologies, designed for scalability and resilience, to ensure uninterrupted service even under challenging conditions.
Actvo is an extension of Start Nows proprietary career planning system, pioneered in 2018 by Melissa Jenner. Trained in Human Centred Design & Design your Life at Stanford D-School Melissa designed a methodology for enabling people to self-direct their careers and learn new skills based on the method of “Disover, Design, Act”. This method has since been producticsed through her world-leading masterclass detailing 18 steps to growth, used by 1000s of people world-wide. The methodology has also been taught at AUT and AcademyEX to a range of students, and as an outplacement & career pivoting methodology for large corporations in NZ and offshore.
Actvo® gives your team the clarity, tools, and support they need - fast.
"Before Actvo, development felt like guesswork. Now I know that every employee can develop their own path, and every manager has visibility. It's a game-changer for me as an owner"
"As CEO, I want to make sure my teams are empowered to grow and make decisions independently. Actvo gives me that assurance. This solves many business challenges at once"
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