We reframed our design challenge after the first day of defining and scoping with the People Team. Instead of creating an agile performance review, we figured together that the question was actually more like: How can we provide employees with opportunities to give and receive feedback in order to move forward in their professionalism and personal development? After we redirected our sprint goal, everyone in the room felt that that was the right problem to tackle!

We talked to Kironistas to discover what they needed in order to fully embrace the opportunity of designing their own growth path. Afterwards we built a series of experiments to learn the best way to facilitate that: a self-reflection guide, a series of steps to create your own growth path and a peer-coaching system. These interventions and moments we created for the Kironistas followed what we learned from them during interviews: that is not easy to make sense on your own how you want to grow, the importance of making learning explicit in order to really feel like growing and the need for peer-feedback and accountability.

Always in the back of our heads and in front of our eyes were the values of Kiron, which we unpacked on Monday — digital, respect for the Kiron family, student-centeredness, openness and team collaboration. The experience we designed needed to stay true to this set of values that are very important to the team and their work. They were our guiding stars and filter for every idea, every question and every sketch and Kironistas could feel it when we presented the new growth process to them.