Uncover the Employee Value Proposition
Strategically highlight organizational strengths in a compelling and realistic story to attract and retain the right talent.
- Human resources (HR) departments already strapped for time spend the majority of their attention on other HR activities rather than the employee value proposition (EVP) (McLean & Company, 2022 HR Trends Report, n=405).
- When creating an EVP, organizations often forget about the employee voice and engagement, neglect to look at competitors, and confuse it with employer branding, which leads to inaccurate, misaligned, and undifferentiated EVPs.
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Critical Insight
A strong employee value proposition (EVP) provides a compelling but realistic view of the benefits of joining the organization, while also leading to a connection that encourages employees to stay.
Impact and Result
- Create a realistic and compelling EVP by using the employee voice to uncover the lived experience and the organizational offerings that employees highly value.
- Highlight the organization’s unique features in the EVP to differentiate from competitors, allow potential and current employees to assess fit, and support recruitment and retention efforts.
- Fully integrate and sustain the EVP through strong communication partnerships across the organization that reach both internally and externally.
Employee Value Proposition
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Please note:
As of July 25, 2025, this course is becoming a core course and will be replaced by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy as an elective course. Both courses remain pre-approved for SHRM, HRCI, and HRPA recertification credits. Enrolment and progress in these and any other McLean Academy courses will not be impacted by this change.
How to complete this course:
Use these videos, along with the Project Blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the Course Modules. At the end of each Module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all of the course tests.
- Number of Course Modules: 5
- Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours
Learning Outcome
Develop a unique EVP for your organization to reinforce your talent management strategy and differentiate yourself from key talent competitors.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand an EVP’s purpose and impact
for organizations both internally and externally.
- Identify the criteria to create a
robust and successful EVP.
- Align the EVP with the employer
brand.
- Try out the EVP internally and
externally.
- Determine how to align HR policies
and programs to the new EVP.
- Define communications around launching the EVP.
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Course Modules
Academy EVP: Introduction: Uncover an impactful Employee Value Proposition
Academy EVP: Module 1: Build a Plan to Develop the EVP
Academy EVP: Module 2: Uncover the EVP
Academy EVP: Module 3: Evaluate and Refine the EVP
Academy EVP: Module 4: Launch and Sustain the EVP
Workshop: Uncover the Employee Value Proposition
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Build a Plan to Develop the EVP
The Purpose
Identify EVP insights and themes using organizational data.
Key Benefits Achieved
Organizational data is sorted into EVP categories to uncover positive experiences across employee population.
Activities
Outputs
Review EVP concepts.
Consolidate focus group and existing survey data to identify insights.
- Insights from focus groups categorized
Synthesize all gathered insights into themes.
- Insights from existing employee surveys categorized
Module 2: Uncover the EVP
The Purpose
Finalize themes and draft EVP statements.
Key Benefits Achieved
The predominant positive experiences are translated into tangible statements.
Activities
Outputs
Define category themes.
Select three to six key EVP themes.
- Key EVP themes identified
Draft EVP statements.
- Drafted EVP statements
Module 3: Refine and Plan for Implementation of the EVP
The Purpose
Refine EVP statements.
Key Benefits Achieved
The final first draft of EVP is completed.
Activities
Outputs
Conduct a competitor analysis.
Refine EVP statements.
- Refined EVP statements
Prepare for executive stakeholder presentation.
Module 4: Finalize the EVP
The Purpose
Finalize EVP and prepare to implement.
Key Benefits Achieved
This EVP is validated with executive stakeholders and refined for road testing.
Activities
Outputs
Present EVP to executive stakeholders for feedback.
- Executive alignment with drafted EVP statements
Revise EVP statement.
- Finalized EVP statements
Develop an action plan to segment and road test the EVP.
- Action plan for EVP road testing
Module 5: Implement the EVP.
The Purpose
Develop the communications and implementation plan.
Key Benefits Achieved
An implementation plan for EVP integration into the organization is completed.
Activities
Outputs
Develop the internal communications plan.
- Draft communications plan
Create EVP implementation expectations for marketing and branding.
- Draft EVP marketing and branding implementation phases
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Build a plan to develop the EVP
- Call 1: Identify organizational challenges and goals for the EVP project.
- Call 2: Review employee segments and develop the project plan.
Guided Implementation 2: Uncover the EVP
- Call 1: Prepare for focus groups and identify other inputs of data.
- Call 2: Review gathered data and key themes.
- Call 3: Review EVP draft statements.
Guided Implementation 3: Evaluate and refine the EVP
- Call 1: Re-visit project plan timelines and confirm how stakeholder feedback will be collected.
- Call 2: Review stakeholder feedback and revisions made to the EVP.
Guided Implementation 4: Launch and sustain the EVP
- Call 1: Review the Employer Brand Ideas Catalog and identify options for communicating the EVP.
- Call 2: Create the launch communications plan.
Contributors
- Jennifer Cermak, Social Media and Internal Communications Specialist, Sensata
- Jenny Crawford, Director, Talent Acquisition, Oshkosh Corporation
- Thomas Davenport, Author & Consultant
- Nicole Dorskind, Managing Director, ThirtyThree
- Dr. Dieter Veldsman, Executive, People and Organizational Effectiveness, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited
- Dean Fulford, Leadership Development Lead, Stratford Managers
- Jennifer Heikamp, Lead of Workforce Planning & Organizational Development, York Region
- Darla Higgins, Recruiting Manager, Pet Supplies Plus
- Mark Hirschfeld, VP of Consulting Services, BI WORLDWIDE
- Natalie LeBlanc, Talent Acquisition Leaders, HirePower
- Alexa Moritz, Marketing Manager, ThirtyThree
- Bianca New, Human Resources Consultant, Olympus Australia/New Zealand
- Betsy Schneider, Vice President of Marketing, BI WORLDWIDE
- John Sime, Marketing Technology Consultant
- Derek van der Schyff, Employee Engagement Specialist, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited
- Howard Weintraub, Founder and Lead Consultant, Nuuvo-B2E
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