How are you coping during this period?
What are you discovering about yourself and each other that you could not see before?
What have you lost during this time but are not missing?
These questions and others trigger new conversations and collaborations between many members of the group.
๐ข๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ. ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฏ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐๐, ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐.
We were conditioned by experts that we need non-authentic, anonymous, low-trust workplace surveys to tell us what we should talk about.
And whilst we were in the building, we didnโt buy it but we went along with it, right?
But no longer! Long and static employee surveys are dead, replaced by authentic conversations between people who choose the topics, not the survey authors.
In the Enterprise Social Room, we began this extraordinary conversation and re-imagining a future where conversations across physical locations and hierarchies became part of the โnew normalโ.
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The Enterprise Social Room to complement operational communications
Topics: Internal Communications, Employee Experience, Best Practice, Operational Efficiency
โJob-Hopping on the riseโ โ How to make them stick with you longer
Life is work.
Work is life.
Life is all about relationships - and work is no exception.
In fact, the key to long-term happiness and fulfillment is โour relationships.โ
This is what Harvard's legendary Grant and Glueck Study found out over the last 80 years:
"The quality of our work-life - emotionally, physically, and mentally - is directly proportional to the quality of our relationships."
Topics: Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Best Practice
Leading from the Frontlines: How to Create a Digital Workplace Thatโs Still Human
Frontline. noun โThe most advanced, responsible, or visible position in a field or activity.โ
That definition is an accurate description of your companyโs most influential people: frontline employees. Theyโre on the ground, leading the charge, and have the most interaction with your customers.
How many percent of your frontline workers are receiving corporate communication directly and in an instant?
Typically, this mobile workforce is often left unattended and, as a result, is left feeling disconnected from the company. Only 13% of them are engaged at work. As a result, theyโre more likely to leave for another company with a more inclusive approach and a digital workplace.
Itโs important to understand why frontline employees need to be included in your business strategies.
Topics: Retail, Hospitality, Logistics, F&B, Internal Communications, Employee Experience, Best Practice
Why the Whole is Smarter than its Parts or the Beekeeper's Edge
Bees arenโt smart, bee colonies are. No single bee knows how to build a hive, protect the queen, and produce honey. But collectively, they still make it happen, which is quite impressive.
Here is how they do it:
Topics: Internal Communications, Best Practice
Topics: Internal Communications, Best Practice, Operational Efficiency
The Importance of Transparency for a Healthy Company Culture
Companies have changed the way they do business.
A rigid hierarchy that restricted the flow of information and negatively impacted employee communications used to be the norm. Communication between employees and their supervisors was often limited, and organizational transparency was practically nonexistent.
Topics: Hospitality, Video, Internal Communications, Employee Experience, Best Practice, Use-Case
12 Reasons why Money isn't a great Motivator for your work
Earning the money we need to live is presumably the main reason we work at all.
But does money motivate us to continuously perform our best work?
Letโs take a peek at what science and research have to say about that:
Topics: Best Practice
How to communicate with those 2.7 billion deskless workers?
Take a guess how many percent of the global workforce do not have a desk?
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70 to 80% of workers globally - about 2.7 billion people - are โdesklessโ and handling jobs that do not require (or allow for) sitting in place.
If that number surprises you, think about all the industries this includes retail and grocery, healthcare, hospitality and foodservice, construction, manufacturing, logistics and utilities.
These frontline workers have unique job demands, volatile working schedules, demanding customers, long hours standing and little to no access to task-critical information.
In 2021 this deskless workforce will undergo an Employee Experience investment renaissance as companies are increasingly recognizing the impact technology has on boosting deskless worker productivity and job satisfaction.
Topics: Internal Communications, Employee Experience, Best Practice, Operational Efficiency
Harnessing Swarm Intelligence to Make the Sum Bigger than its Parts
What can we do differently to do better in engaging our employees?
Many bosses believe that valuable knowledge is concentrated in a very few heads. They assume that the key to making good decisions is finding that one right person who will have the answer.
The โgeniusโ of the organization NEVER resides completely in management!
The best ideas will often come from far-flung corners of the community.
We are likely to incur an โignorance taxโ when we fail to consult the crowd before making important decisions.
Topics: Employee Engagement, Internal Communications, Best Practice, Operational Efficiency
The higher a nationโs stress index, the greater its GDP and life expectancy, the more satisfied people are with their lives, their work, their communities, their own health, the happier they are.
Basically, the more people you have who thought yesterday was very stressful, thatโs better for public health, itโs better for the economy, itโs better any way you look at it.
It kind of blew the researchers minds.
It is not what they or we would be expecting.
When they dug in a little deeper, it made more sense.
Stress was a barometer for pushing people toward the things that ultimately made them productive & happy.
โ A tough project at work brings stress, but also a sense of accomplishment when itโs finished.
โ Raising kids is stressful, but being a parent brings meaning.
โ Stress focuses your attention in ways good times canโt.
โ It kills procrastination and indecision, taking what you need to get done and shoving it so close to your face that you have no choice but pursue it, right now and to the best of your ability.
Topics: Employee Engagement, Best Practice