Business Goals
Reduce Meetings and Streamline Communication
We’ve all been there. We’re introducing something new to the teams – a new procedure, policy or routine, perhaps. So, we start by going through it at a team meeting. Everyone leaves on board, saying they understand. But, within a week, you notice that people are falling back into their old habits. So, you schedule…
Communication
The Secret to Holding Someone’s Attention
When you have an important message to get out, it’s easy to sound like a broken record, constantly repeating the message until people get it. But, if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of that broken record, you know that it’s easy to tune out after you’ve gotten the point… even if you really…
Human Resources
The Critical Importance of Visual Communication in the Workplace
Whether your business has continued operation through the pandemic or you’re preparing to re-open in the near future, we can all assert: as we return to normal, things won’t be quite the same. As our businesses re-open, it will be critical to employ new business practices, procedures, and policies in order to keep our employees…
Senior Living
Leveraging Digital Signage in Assisted Living Facilities
Assisted living facilities have a unique challenge: maintain a high quality of life for your residents while keeping an institution of people on the same page. Outstanding communication is key to making it all work. When you’re trying to reach seniors as well as staff and family, finding opportunities to communicate with them passively and…
Human Resources
Great Communication for Human Resources Leaders
People spend most of their life at work. When you’re leading a team of employees in human resources, you have dozens or hundreds of people looking to you to make that life great. Employees rely on their leaders to set the direction and lead the way. That’s why great communication is paramount for businesses, and in…
Human Resources
Training for Success
Onboarding new employees well can be key to their success at your company longterm. But, more often than not we follow the same tired process we’ve always used, with diminishing returns. Odds are, your company isn’t doing a great job onboarding your employees. In fact, a recent Gallup study found that only 12% of employees…
Small Business
Great Communication for Business Owners
When you own a small business, it can feel like you’re constantly repeating yourself. Owners burden the full risk and responsibility of their business, so everything holds a higher stake for them than their employees. Employees in a small business are constantly looking to their owners and leaders to set the direction and lead the…
Human Resources
How Digital Signage Supports HR
Digital Signage can typically seem like a marketing or even an IT solution. Unless you’re already using digital signage in your company, you may be missing opportunities to unify your messaging to your employees in an efficient, effective way that saves you time and money. We live in an age where everyone has infinite…
Human Resources
Three Factors Impacting Your Employees’ Attention
In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. But it’s not, is it? In fact, you probably spend more time than ever repeating yourself and trying to roll out new policies. Why is it so much harder to communicate with…
Business Goals
The Simple Trick to Stop Repeating Yourself
Monday morning staff meeting, you roll out a new and important employee procedure. You tell the story about what led to this procedure, you talk about it in detail, and you make it clear that this is a mandatory and immediate change. By Wednesday, though, your team has forgotten, and you find yourself repeating the…
Communication
Communications Gaps: Why They’re Happening
Every business faces issues with communication at some point. As technology changes, and time passes, it’s easy to think we’re communicating better than ever, when in fact we’re barely getting the message across in an environment constantly cluttering peoples’ attention with notifications and messaging. HR professionals, business owners, operations managers – you see it every…
Human Resources
Improve Your Communication, Improve Your Employee Retention
In manufacturing, one of the biggest and most frustrating challenges is employee retention. For HR leaders in the field, their job requires constant energy spent in recruitment, onboarding, and communicating… and re-communicating. When the labor pool is small, employee retention is all the more critical: when you find good, qualified employees, you want to keep…
Human Resources
3 Reasons It’s Harder Than Ever To Communicate With Your Factory’s Employees
If you’ve been in manufacturing for any length of time, you’ve noticed: it’s harder than ever to get the message across to your team. In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. Why is it so much harder to communicate…
Retriever Users
Why Your Existing Customers Go to the Competition
We’ve all been there. We think our loyal customers know what services or products we offer and then we’re caught off-guard when we find out that they’ve gone to a competitor for something we could do for them. When that happens, a business questions their quality, pricing, or the loyalty of the customer, when in…
Small Business
The Biggest Challenge Facing Small Business Owners
As small business owners ourselves, we get it – ensuring that your customers and employees are happy with your business while maintaining an appropriate amount of growth and a healthy ROI can be a constant balancing act. Small business owners wear a number of hats and may function in a number of roles on their…
Human Resources
3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…