With the holidays right around the corner, and more employers ready to break out their party hats, chances are you’re starting to plan your office holiday party. Are you struggling to find a way to make it fun and unique? Or have you already resigned to hosting an office holiday party that seems strangely similar to the last umpteen years.
Office BFFs. You spend more time with them than you do with your spouse and kids. You have a joint supply of food in the fridge. Your attendance at office events is largely dependent on their attendance (not that you couldn’t go without them, it’s just way more fun). You vent to each other when you get upset at work. When they are absent for a day, it feels like an eternity.
Business networking is an inseparable part of growth. It involves building connections with other professionals through personal introductions, referrals, and now, social media, with the goal of expanding corporate outreach.
While the term techorating might not exactly roll off the tongue, it is quickly becoming an important aspect of the modern workplace. The idea behind this buzzword is simple – it’s using technology, like digital signage, to ‘decorate’ an area e.g. workplace or store front.
Employee communication has become one of the most important contributors to organisational effectiveness. It builds trust and engagement among the employees, enhances business performance to influence customer behavior, and directly affects revenue growth and profitability.
Digital signage today is less about the technology and more about the content that you can display on screens. After all, content is what your viewers will interact with, not the hardware or software.
Today’s workforce has more millennials than any other generation. They excel in tech innovative and collaborative environments where there is transparency and clear communication.
To communicate and connect with this new crop of employees, managers need to get creative and do more than send emails and post notices on bulletin boards.
In chapter 1 and chapter 2, we discussed the state of employee communication today and how digital strategies such as leaderboards are creating unique opportunities for communication. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at another digital strategy that’s gaining popularity in workplaces: gamification.
In chapter 1, we discussed the current state of employee communication, the challenges facing both employees and employers and how digital channels are creating unique opportunities for employee communication.
In this chapter, we’ll look at how one of these digital channels, leaderboards on digital signage displays, can enable effective communication and be used to engage employees.
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