5 Amazingly Effective Ways to Use Digital Signage for Employee Communications

Did you know that only 13% of employees are truly involved at work. When employees are engaged, productivity increases by 20 to 25%. Unengaged employees are like weights that weigh your organization down. This leads to slower growth, high-turnover rates and lack of responsibility.

When communicating through traditional poster signage, email or intranet, there’s a chance that not everyone will be able to read or know every information or message being sent. Not all employees check posted notices. Intranet in most companies are not being used by all employees. In fact, less than 13% of employees use their daily.

Great employee communication has to start from within. One key to improving your employees’ drive is to advance the way you internally communicate with your employees. By using digital signage for employee communications, you can easily and remotely update your signs messages and even pre-schedule special announcements to play on specific dates and times.

Today 50% of companies are already using digital signage for employee communications. Digital Signage for employee communications is a platform that cuts through the noise of daily emails.

Digital signage for employee communications capture’s attention no matter how busy everyone is. Communicating in a more natural way can be done through digital signage for employee communications. It can display important new company videos, weather alerts, safety information, local traffic reports, upcoming meeting times, insurance information, an employee of the month, messages from the CEO and more.

Here are 5 ways that you can use digital signage for employee communications:

1. On-demand information

Strategically place digital signage for employee communications in high-traffic areas of your building. This could be adding a digital sign in your lobby, employee breakroom, cafeteria, bathrooms, etc. By adding a combination of interesting content such as traffic reports or scrolling news and a section for notifications you will attract the attention of your employees.

Each time they pass the sign their eyes will naturally be drawn to the sign to view its content. Think about it. Every day your employees will see the sign at various points of your building. At each viewing, they will see your messages!

2. Customer Testimonials

By sharing new customer success stories and testimonials, you will not only show your employees how your products and services are being used, but also be recognizing the employee that provided exceptional customer service.

3. Employee opinions

Turn your digital signage for employee communications into a mechanism to gather feedback. Using NoviSign’s Polling widget you can easily create a questionnaire and post the results on the sign. Your employees can take the poll on their mobile phone and all results will dynamically update on to the display as results come in. You can use this to get valuable employee insight on new products and other relevant information. This is a fun way to drive engagement all while learning more about your employees.

4. Recognize your employee’s accomplishments

Digital signage for employee communications can be used as a powerful platform for boosting your employee’s morale and confidence. While rewards and bonuses are great motivators, receiving admiration and credit your management team has been found to be the key to nurturing better performance. By specifically spotlighting your employee’s accomplishments on all of the digital signs in your building, you are publicly showing appreciation.

5. Competition stimulates motivation

Use digital signage for employee communications to broadcast current market conditions and information. By letting your employee know where your company stands in the market, you are giving them the key selling tools needed to best position your brand and offering.

 

What’s Next?

So what are you waiting for? Try out digital signage today for your corporate communications. You can sign up today for a free 30-day trial of NoviSign’s Digital Signage for Employee Communications.

• No credit card needed
• Receive full access to software
• Begin sending content to your signs immediately
• Includes customizable templates
• Drag-and-drop templates
• Runs on Chrome OS, Android and Windows media players

 

Related links:

• Digital Signage for Employee Communications
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• 5 Amazingly Effective Ways to use Digital Signage for Employee Communications