If you want your employees to get excited about the messages you’re putting out — and you want that excitement to produce better engagement — put your frontline people on the front page. Whether it’s a tangible newsletter or an annual benefits campaign, boost the...
A version of this article recently appeared on Forbes.com Communicating with all those employees sitting in front of computers is easy. But if your workforce includes frontline employees in manufacturing, retail, hospitality or healthcare, you may have to work a...
We often speak of the importance of communicating with your non-desk (or unplugged) employees. Even if you’re cascading information through their managers, we recommend having at least one channel from corporate that goes directly to the frontline. The cascading...
It’s important to find ways for all those non-desk employees in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, healthcare and other industries to access your intranet, whether that’s mobile-friendly intranets they can access on their own phones or tablets in the...
When you’re communicating a major change, vision and values, or even topics as perennial as safety, you’ll be more successful when you provide manager tools to make that communication easier. (For reasons why, see this Best Practices paper.) But when...
We’re several months into the pandemic now. High time to let all those frontline employees know that they’re not just essential workers — they’re also respected and valued. That takes more than generic thank-you signage in the stores, factories and...