Case Study: SIDES enables employee development and career growth with Leapsome

How SIDES is enabling employee development & career growth with Leapsome

SIDES, a Berlin-based food service management software company, needed a better way to support employee growth as it scaled from 30 to 150 people in a year. With managers making promotion and development decisions based on gut feeling, the company lacked a transparent career framework and a structured performance review process. SIDES chose Leapsome’s Competency Framework, Feedback & Praise, and Performance Reviews features to bring more clarity, fairness, and consistency to development conversations.

With Leapsome, SIDES introduced a behavior-based competency framework, centralized reviews, and easier access to past assessments, feedback, and private notes. The result was more bias-free performance reviews, clearer development paths, and faster, more informed manager decisions. In the first month after implementation, employees exchanged feedback and praise 104 times, and SIDES is now planning biannual feedback cycles and considering Leapsome’s Goals module for OKRs and goal-setting.

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Tara Todorovic

People Development Manager