Transform Frontline Employee Experience Management with Technology

Effective frontline employee experience management for frontline workers is crucial for organizational success, and requires proactive steps to combat isolation and disconnection.

When discussing organisational performance, it’s often assumed that employees are always going to be bringing their ‘A-game’ to work.

This type of thinking – often prevalent amongst goal orientated executives – ignores the crucial role that employee connection plays in business growth. Starting from the minute they’re brought on-board until their departure, employee experience is defined by every small detail in their daily work-cycle.

The contemporary workplace, with increased automation and technology, can be an isolating experience for frontline workers who are traditionally cut off from organisations as they don’t have access to company email or intranet. As a result, true employee connection is never achieved.

For those active on the frontline, the detachment ends up playing a key role in increased feelings of over-responsibility, apathy and general burnout. It’s therefore vital to ensure that proactive and meaningful steps are taken in creating positive experiences for frontline staff.

Who are Frontline Employees?

Frontline workers are essential employees – often the first point of contact for customers or workers who are closely involved in production activities. Technological changes over the years have broadened the scope of these roles and brought with it new responsibilities.

A shared trait among these frontline workers is the daily high-stress and high-pressure environments they find themselves in, where mistakes can be costly for all involved. Physical demands in mining or construction environments, can lead to elevated levels fatigue. This can lead to injury or loss if not managed correctly

Some examples of how organisations can strive to improve the frontline experience can be linked to effective communication methods that promote: idea sharing, remote work support and assistance for worker autonomy.

By bolstering access to day-to-day technological tools, businesses can help themselves further build up their employee workplace experience.

Importance of the Frontline Employee Experience

The majority of the world’s workforce is made up of frontline employees. Worryingly for many business executives over half (of the estimated 2 billion frontline workers) reported that they felt their stress levels at work would continue to grow.

In work environments that are already semi-disconnected by default, it is vital to ensure that relevant employees don’t feel a growing sense of isolation. To avoid this issue, organisations can focus on building up their employee connections.

Through making efforts to engage and motivate workers, business leaders can challenge the narrative that employees are resources. Instead, highlighting their importance in a larger organisational culture.

This benefits both parties in the long run, given the well-established advantages that general employee satisfaction leads to, this includes:

  • Higher staff retention
  • Increased employee productivity
  • Improved revenue through better consumer/service experiences and production efficiencies

Frontline employees who feel connected to their organisation are much more likely to remain with the company for longer periods of time – countering attrition. They are also better equipped to be more productive in their duties, resulting in improved interactions with customers (or service-users) to the benefit of the business.

Key Elements of Frontline Experience Management

There are several crucial factors to prioritise when it comes to effectively managing frontline employee experiences:

  • Skills development

While a range of workplace issues can result in worker attrition. A notable precursor to these problems can be linked to poor initial training. As such, organisations need to develop programs that focus on building the necessary basic skills – and then further foster employee growth over time.

  • Safety & Well-being

Often active in work situations where they face intense pressure. Frontline workers need to be assured that their leaders have made efforts that prioritise their safety in these scenarios.

  • Communication & Feedback

Effective and clear communication is essential to maintaining employee connection and ensuring a positive experience. By promoting the use of efficient communication platforms (like Wyzetalk), organisations can ensure that their staff are always connected and always able to share their concerns.

  • Recognition & Rewards

Battling the burnout faced by frontline employees is a major concern. By properly recognising and rewarding frontline staff for their role in the workplace, employers can better combat the inherent disconnect faced by remote workers.

Enhancing the Frontline Employee Experience Management with Wyzetalk

As frontline employee experience experts, we provide a centralised solution to assist organisations in both managing and strengthening the experience of their frontline workers.

By providing a platform centred around instant communication we enable organisations to keep all their employees connected and aware of all developments relevant to their day-to-day work lives, and in the business as a whole.

Wyzetalk’s employee engagement platform helps to address key elements of the frontline experience through:

Onboarding – Oftentimes new employees are hurriedly brought in with only time-limited training. This means they can feel lost or otherwise disconnected. By providing a streamlined onboarding solution, we give organisations the ability to digitally train and prepare new employees for their new roles and responsibilties.

Fostering a Culture of Safety – Using the platform, businesses can not only share safety policy updates but also assist in providing access to relevant safety information and training procedures, without being limited by time or location. Safety issues and hazards can be reported in real time so corrective action can be taken timeously.

Crisis Communications – While primarily empowering organisations to better manage high-stress crises through instant communication capabilities, Wyzetalk’s platform also gives them the ability to alert staff about work stoppages, allowing for better management of these situations.

Data Driven Decision Making – Through an easily manageable analytics dashboard, our solutions can assist organisations in effectively collecting and assessing data related to their employee connections and experiences. This helps to identify priority areas for leaders and allows them to observe and reward growth.

Key Takeaways

Frontline employee experience management, particularly concerning staff active on the frontline, boils down to company leaders taking steps to combat the disconnect.

They can do this by making use of a centralised platform that promotes clear and effective communication, keeping workers engaged and connected to the business vision and mission.

To promote engagement, collaboration and frontline employee connection within your organisation, let’s connect.

 

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