Blog - 5 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement Via Your Intranet

Summary

We know that an engaged, motivated, and enthusiastic workforce translates into a better all-round experience for clients, colleagues, and management. Productivity improves, customers receive better service, and employees are happier about their work.

With the ongoing concern around employee retention, enterprise companies need innovative and meaningful solutions to boost employee engagement and foster a common sense of purpose across a digital-first workforce no matter if they are working from the office, at home, or on the road.

To better align employees across your company, consider how you can leverage communication technology for daily tasks and fostering a strong company culture.

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1. Incorporate UX and UI design principles

Companies that incorporate user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design principles see higher employee participation on the company's intranet platform. By ensuring a consistent and branded look and feel across all communication platforms, companies can make employees feel more “at home”, which increases platform adoption and engagement. Better UX and UI design not only improves usability, it also creates a more pleasant and useful interface for users, and as a result, encourages utilization and helps increase productivity.

2. Provide information that fosters community outside of work

It's important for employee engagement leaders to consider ways to use their intranet to offer more than just work-related information. Your intranet is a great way to inform your team about events in the building or local community that might be of interest to employees working in or out of the office. This encourages employees to connect with one another and serves as a way for the company to foster links with the larger community.

3. Generate interactions that promote a sense of belonging

An effective way to improve the sense of connection amongst your hybrid and dispersed teams is to integrate social media functions. This lets employees move seamlessly between their preferred communication channels when reaching out to colleagues, senior staff, and clients.
An intranet that functions like beloved social media platforms is also more likely to be used, helping foster strategic alignment and a common culture. Consider incorporating like, comment, and share features on each post.

4. Increase learning and training capacity

By enabling HR and communication leadership with powerful professional development tools, LumApps makes it possible to upskill and onboard new and existing employees. Our intranet-based micro and nano-learning feature makes it easy to integrate powerful educational solutions into your existing intranet if your staff are working at the office, from home or on the road. Our innovative video technology helps employees onboard quickly, as well as application of new skills.

This feature also allows managers to create and upload short videos to explain new resources, or to highlight key takeaways from a big meeting for employees who couldn’t attend.

5. Create a workplace that encourages employee recognition

LumApps' intranet-based features encourages employee recognition by offering a host of tools that acknowledge a job well done and help foster meaningful connections in a hybrid work setting.

Wherever employees may be working, our technology fosters peer-to-peer recognition and makes it easy for leadership to celebrate and praise employee achievements. Employees feel their efforts are being recognized and their voices are being heard, cultivating a sense of belonging and connection that not only improves retention, but also helps boost productivity.

An intranet that functions like social media is more likely to be used, helping to foster alignment and culture.

LumApps improves employee engagement by using your intranet as a digital HQ that helps weave connections between a geographically dispersed and hybrid digital-first workforce. With our AI-supported digital assistant and easy to implement learning and training solutions, team members stay connected no matter where they are or what kind of device they may be using.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, LumApps helps improve productivity and empowers leadership to take an active role in helping create a more meaningful and connected modern workplace environment.