Infographics Employee communication
Let’s face it, building a business case that allows you to capture people’s attention and get the investment you need can be difficult. So how do you convince the leaders in your organization about the importance of employee engagement and communication? How do you get them to invest in new technologies such as an employee app and tell them about the benefits?
The main goal of any manufacturing company is production. But in order to enable your employees to do their best work, you’ll need to extend your internal communications strategy to the work floor. You may be surprised to find that production levels increase when your factory workers are informed and connected with the right employee communications platform. What’s more, is that you could prevent all kinds of hiccups just by reaching the production floor faster and more efficiently.
We caught up with Tara McKinney, Human Resources Director at Clarkson Construction Company, who has implemented the Speakap's employee communications platform in three separate manufacturing and construction companies in the United States. The purpose? To engage employees, connect frontline employees with the head office and to generally increase reach and accessibility to company news and information. Here’s what she had to say about employee engagement and frontline communication.
Last April, the global coffee giant Starbucks was sucked into a conversation about racial bias when an incident took place at one of their Philadelphia restaurants. The manager of the unit accused two African-American men of trespassing; police were called, the men were wrongly arrested, and the outcry was nationwide.
According to a survey of CEOs by the Ark Group, almost 95% of them believed that successful internal communication was the most important factor in success. Surprisingly, only 22% believed that their own company's internal communication was up to par. David Grossman, in his book "The Cost of Poor Communications," indicated an average loss of $62.4 million per year for companies employing around 100,000 due to inadequate internal communication.
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