Leaders who are open and engaged can strengthen company culture and improve the employee experience.
Employees want open, visible leaders. When leadership teams are engaged, they set the tone for engagement across your organization and help shape your company culture. Executive communication that models transparency and reinforces company values can instill a sense of pride and belonging across your employee base, leading to higher productivity, better customer service, and lower turnover.
How to do it in PeerBie MyWork
1. Promote executive posts in News Feed
Make sure your exec team’s posts get extra visibility
You can also pin specific posts so that they show up at the very top of everyone’s News Feed. Employees will be prompted to mark important posts as read, and admins will be able to track stats on Seen by, Marked as Read, and Reactions.
2. Encourage executive engagement
Ensure your leadership team is leading the charge and regularly engaging with and contributing to posts within key project and company teams.
3. Create a Leadership Team FYI group
Create a company-wide Leadership Team FYI team, where the leadership team can regularly share their more in-depth thoughts on industry trends, company initiatives, and the wider business landscape.
4. Centralize communication with PeerBie MyWork Chat
Streamline the teams that executives use to connect with each other. Move leadership team WhatsApp and email distribution groups to PeerBie MyWork Chat to create a central hub for all team and 1:1 conversations.
5. Hold weekly Q&As with your CEO
Bring distributed teams closer and encourage better internal collaboration by creating a weekly all-company Q&A hosted by your CEO. Use PeerBie MyWork polls, events, and video conferences to get a pulse of the company and ensure that leadership is never far from the frontline.
If you’re not using Video Conferences, create a Q&A post in your security announcements group and invite people to share their questions. All members of the team will be notified about your post and will be able to ask questions directly on the post. Team members will also be able to upvote and downvote questions and reply to other team members.
6.Use Video Conference to reach everyone in your organization
Make your leadership team more visible to the wider organization by Video Conference to share information from their desk or broadcast meetings and town halls. Video can be recorded by phone, computer. The videos automatically post to the team, so anyone that misses the live broadcast can catch up later.
7. Give everyone a voice with polls
Enable cross-company dialogue with Q&A polls. Employee questions can be answered Live during a Video Conference Q&A broadcast or in a follow-up post by members of your leadership team.
8. Share your calendar with your department
Share your calendar with your department so that employees get visibility to their leadership teams. You just need to go to settings and click on share calendar and select department or everyone, or just my teams. This will allow others to see your schedule.
9. Performance points
Be an example to the rest of the organization by getting active in PeerBie MyWork. Make regular posts, and manage your and your team’s tasks through the program. Let employees see their leader earn points just like everyone else. This will create a sense of belonging and loyalty to their leader as well as the company.
Benefits
- Close the distance from top to bottom and bring your company closer together.
- Strengthen employee awareness by keeping employees connected and informed about key updates.
- Ensure the executive team gets real-time feedback on important announcements or company updates.