Case Study
The Impact of Peak Ability
Learn how REVGEN used Peak Ability to create 30% higher job retention rates and 85% higher quota-attainment rates.
Introduction
From March to June 2022 Founders First and VentureXpert Advisors conducted a randomized, controlled test with twenty-two sales development representatives (SDRs) who used the Founders First mental wellness app and participated in group accountability sessions, Peak Ability, led by a trained facilitator.
Among those who participated in the Peak Ability group, job retention rates were 30% higher and quota-attainment rates were 85% higher than those who only used the app. Job retention and quota-attainment rates in both the Peak Ability and app-only groups were higher than the same rates in recent cohorts of new SDR hires at the same organization.
Facilitation
Group accountability sessions utilized the Peak Ability format created and licensed by Founders First and all sessions were led by a trained facilitator at VentureXpert Advisors.
The app-only group was given access to the Founders First mental wellness app but was not given the opportunity to attend Peak Ability sessions. The Peak Ability group was given access to the app and was asked to attend one Peak Ability session each week.
Individual Impact
All SDRs in the test and control groups were new hires who were trained and began sales development efforts during the ninety-day test period. Participants in the Peak Ability group saw 78% engagement with self-awareness and self-care practices and participants in the app-only group saw 29% engagement with self-awareness and self-care practices.
The Peak Ability group experienced 200% more emotional improvement, 300% more self-awareness, and completed 19 times more self-care activities than the app-only group during the test period.
19x
More Self-Care Activities
300%
More Self-Awareness
200%
More Emotional Improvement
"The Founders First app has become an important tool for me in my daily work life.”
“Having the app helped me to start my day with self-reflection, so I can acknowledge where I am mentally, and create a plan on how to best approach the day. It's helped me to understand where I should prioritize my energy which has helped in easing the anxieties that come up in my day-to-day life as an employee. I really enjoyed the collaborative approach of our Monday morning meetings in our Peak Ability group. Being able to reflect with my co-workers as we started the week together gave us the chance to share our strategies on how we were going to achieve our goals, and built a space for us to talk about our struggles, celebrate our achievements, and focus on areas of improvement. It was also an awesome way to get to know and collaborate with our remote co-workers!"
- Kalese Warfield
Sales Development Representative
Company Impact
Job retention rates were 30% higher in the Peak Ability group than the app-only group and quota-attainment rates were 85% higher in the Peak Ability group than the app-only group. Job retention and quota-attainment rates in both the app-only and Peak Ability groups were higher than the same rates in recent cohorts of new SDR hires at the same organization.
78%
Employee Engagement with Self-Awareness and Self-Care Practices
“When looking at the statistics, it is very clear that those who participated in the program are not only sticking around longer but they are producing more outcomes.”
"Being a manager and participant of the program, I have had the opportunity to interact with a group of employees that I wouldn't typically be able to connect with in our normal workflow. We created a bond and support system that I know we will carry throughout our careers. When looking at the statistics, it is very clear that those who participated in the program are not only sticking around longer but they are producing more outcomes. The Founders First app and Peak Ability program allowed us to take a deeper dive into our individual needs and gave us a level of self-understanding that is sometimes hard to find."
- Chelsea Overbey
Director of Human Resources
Key Takeaways
Over a ninety day period Founders First and VentureXpert Advisors demonstrated that the combination of a mental wellness app plus group accountability sessions were able to produce significant improvements in job retention and job performance in the study group of 22 sales development representatives (SDRs) as compared to the control group.
The randomized, controlled study is the first of its kind to show that mental wellness practices can deliver the high level of behavior-change required to support corporate objectives.
Employees inside REVGEN’s Peak Ability group experienced:
“As stress and anxiety are at all time highs across the workforce ineffective coping mechanisms are driving chronic burnout and plummeting personal performance. Changing behaviors is hard and until now psychology-based behavior change has been the realm of executive managers only. With this study we’ve demonstrated that the Founders First mental wellness app and Peak Ability sessions can deliver higher job retention and outstanding improvements in job performance at scale in just ninety-days. This is the moment where mediocre companies will continue backfilling and training teams full of low performers, and great companies will accelerate past them by supporting their entire teams with high-engagement mental wellness tools that drive significant business results.”
- Aaron Houghton
Founder and CEO, Founders First
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