LEVO: Research on the effects of development dialogues and leadership tools

Short introduction to LEVO

The LEVO project is a collaboration between Evovia and King Frederik Center for Public Leadership at Aarhus University. The intervention involved 226 managers, randomly assigned through a lottery, and approximately 4,500 employees.

Surveys were conducted before and after the intervention among managers and employees in both the intervention and control groups. The data collected provided robust evidence supporting the positive impact of the intervention on crucial leadership behaviours and employee outcomes.

We investigated whether the combination of two days of leadership training and the use of digital leadership tools, including Evovia’s tools, could enable managers to practice more effective leadership—leadership that fosters employee well-being and organisational success.

LEVO is among the first research projects in the world to investigate the effect of digital dialogue tools. The findings confirm that leadership training combined with the use of dialogue tools significantly enhances ‘good leadership’—leadership that increases employees’ fulfillment of psychological needs, vision valence, value congruence with their organisation, and work engagement.