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Making sure your employees have access to all the information they need to do their jobs effectively sounds simple...
But if you’ve worked in people operations for long enough, you’ll know it’s a lot easier said than done.
Read on for six methods for making sure information gets shared effectively around your business – and the steps you’ll need to take to bake them into your company culture.
Everyone knows sharing information across your business is important.
But you might be surprised by just how big of an impact research shows effective information sharing can have on your business – and your bottom line.
Here’s a whistlestop tour of just a few of the benefits knowledge sharing can bring to your organization:
Did you know the average worker spends an incredible 20% of their working week searching for the information they need to complete their daily tasks?
That’s an entire working day each teammate wastes every week on just tracking down documents and chasing colleagues on blockers.
Stick to information sharing best practices and you’ll seriously cut that down.
People who work for businesses with higher employee turnover rates are 65% more likely to say that it’s "very difficult" or "nearly impossible" to "get the information needed to do [their] job well."
So, if you make it hard for your employees to get hold of the information they need to do their jobs then they might not stay your employees for long…
Which is why nurturing a knowledge sharing culture in your organization can have a huge impact on your turnover rates.
86% of workers believe ineffective team collaboration and communication is the main cause of workplace failures.
And yet 36% of people find it difficult to exchange information across different departments within their organization.
Make sure it’s easy for each of your employees to access the information they need to do their job well and watch your projects start coming in on time and on budget a lot more often.
Research shows that 42% of the average organization’s institutional knowledge is unique to individual employees. That means every time a teammate decides to move on, vital knowledge is likely walking out the door with them.
Nurture a company culture that leads to your people proactively capturing their unique knowhow in your company knowledge sharing tools and you’ll have a business built to last.
Are meetings really the most effective way to communicate in the age of management information systems?
Most of your teammates certainly don’t think so, with research revealing that a massive 71% of workers think meetings are unproductive and inefficient.
While there’s always going to be a time and a place for an in-person knowledge sharing session, it’s well worth asking whether every meeting on your teams’ calendar is strictly necessary.
That’s exactly what Shopify did earlier this year. The company canceled all meetings with more than two employees and all meetings scheduled for Wednesdays, freeing up over 322,000 staff hours – or an amazing 8,050 full-time work weeks.
Make information more available to your people through more effective information sharing methods and you could follow in Shopify’s footsteps.
All these productivity gains quickly add up.
In fact, research shows that organizations of around 1,000 people could save $2.7 million every year by using an employee intranet to improve information sharing between their employees.
Today’s most efficient businesses use a combination of communication tools to share information as effectively as possible:
Empower your people with the right information sharing tools for the job and they’re a lot more likely to collaborate with their teammates.
Now you know the impact sharing information more effectively across your business can have and the tools today’s most effective businesses are using to capture their people’s knowledge.
But how do you encourage your people to share information with colleagues across different departments?
Here are a handful of research-backed strategies to help get you started:
Want your employees to share their hard-earned knowledge with their colleagues?
Studies have shown you’re going to lead by example.
If the higher-ups in your business are generous with their knowledge, your employees are likely to follow in their footsteps. But it will be a tough sell convincing your people to do as you say and not as you do if you don’t let their team in on the details of your company’s strategy.
Convincing your employees to use a knowledge sharing platform that’s difficult to access, clumsy to navigate, and impossible to search is going to be an uphill struggle.
Which is why effective knowledge sharing starts with arming your people with the best tools and techniques for the job.
So, be sure to think carefully about what types of knowledge sharing your people will benefit from the most and pick a platform that makes those as easy as possible.
The organizations that successfully encourage their people to share their knowhow have mastered a balancing act.
On one hand, a disorganized knowledge base isn’t much use to anybody. On the other, studies have found that “transfer of knowledge is hindered by excessive formalization”.
If you want to foster knowledge-sharing for business growth, you need to learn how to strike the balance between setting overly rigid rules that discourage people from using your company wiki and being so hands-off that things become a disorganized mess.
It’s a tough nut to crack, but leading by example – and setting the right intranet knowledge sharing goals – will help.
As will…
Did you know 40% of American workers say they'd put more effort in at work if they were recognized more often?
So, be sure to reward teammates for sharing information in your company intranet. This doesn’t mean throwing an award ceremony every time someone updates an internal document, either. 70% of people actually say motivation and morale would improve “massively” in their workplace if managers simply said “thank you” more often.
There are three main areas where the latest and greatest tools can help boost knowledge sharing across your business:
Capturing all the information your people need to access to do their jobs in a knowledge base and internal wiki might not sound like much of a game changer. But you’d be surprised just how big of a productivity boost you’ll see from eliminating unnecessary back-and-forth between your teammates by sticking to the knowledge sharing best practices.
You need to grab some data for a report that you know the Head of Accounting sent you last month. But was that over email or on Teams? Or was it in a company Slack channel? Or did you actually hear it in the last all-hands meeting?
Centralize your company communications through a company intranet and you’ll make this frustrating scenario a thing of the past for your people. They’ll be able to search your knowledge base and find whatever information they need in minutes.
The right information sharing tools and techniques connect your employees across different departments and locations, helping them feel like much more of a team. This can do wonders for employee engagement across your company – which can boost productivity, reduce turnover, and ultimately improve your profits.
Stick to the steps we’ve outlined here to make sure information flows effectively around each department of your organization.
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There is study after study showing that employee recognition leads to increased engagement. This in return creates an environment where employees are happier and more motivated which increase productivity and reduces voluntary turnover significantly. In order to filled critical roles, companies tend to spend nearly twice the value of an annual salary. Assembly is an investment in your employees that supports your bottom line.
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The minimum agreement term is a 12-month subscription.
We do and for FREE! Any new customer needing further support to get started with Assembly to ensure you're set up for success can request custom onboarding support. Improving your employee experience is about much more than just using our amazing software; it’s about transforming your business to create a workplace that people love. That’s much easier to do with the personal support and advice from our passionate people experts.
Yes. We offer a completely free plan for up to 50 team members. This plan is intended for teams or organizations that are looking to get started with an employee engagement tool. Keep in mind, this plan is limited in features.
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At the time of redemption (when your employees exchange their points for a paid reward) you'll pay face value. If a reward is a $10 Amazon gift card, your cost will be $10. All paid rewards are billed for on a monthly basis.
The good news is that you don't have to pay for rewards upfront because we only charge you when points are redeemed, not when they're earned.
We offer discounts or educational or charitable organizations. In order to secure a discount, you'll first need to book a demo with a customer support specialist.
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Great question! You can customize your core values to match your organization's to boost and track alignment. You can change your currency from the 🏆 emoji (our default) to any emoji of your choice. You can swap our logo for your own. You can also set up company culture rewards such as, "Lunch with the CEO," "Buy a book on us," and so much more!
While we recommend a peer to peer set up where anyone in your organization can give or receive recognition, you can set up Assembly however you want. If you need to limit the people who can give or receive recognition, that's perfectly fine and can be done from your Admin, here.
Assembly connects to the tools your employees use every day to offer an easy, seamless experience with minimal change management.
Assembly has integrations with HCM/HRIS systems like ADP, Google, Office 365, and Slack. We also integrate with communication tools like Slack and Teams so you and your employees can access Assembly wherever they work now.
That depends on the company's permissions set up. That said, over 90% of the employees on Assembly's platform are recognized on a monthly basis. That means nearly every employee across all of our customers are receiving regular recognition from their peers, managers, or leadership. We're extremely proud of this.
They are not required. You can use Assembly without having rewards set up. However, we don't recommend it if you intend to have a high adoption and usage rate. You can always keep the costs down by offering internal culture rewards that are fulfilled by you internally.
No, you can remove allowances from anyone or everyone. It's up to you but we do recommend using points whether they're worth a real dollar value or not. Companies that use points have a much higher engagement rate even if those points don't exchange for real dollars.
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