Top 5 Frontline Employee Engagement Best Practice

Are you tired of slogging through your workday, feeling unfulfilled and disconnected from your organization? Do you wish you could be part of a culture of excellence that inspires innovation, collaboration, and engagement? Well, look no further! We have compiled some of the best practices we've seen in our 10 years of working with organizations around the world to help you build a culture of engagement and achieve amazing results.

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1) Get Everyone Involved

First and foremost, get everyone involved! It's crucial that everyone is "rowing in the same direction" to build a culture of excellence. Your organization should empower, energize, and enable everyone, not just a chosen few. Detractors who feel left behind can infect others with negativity, so it's important to remove employees who aren't willing to participate and elevate themselves.

Weever helps get everyone involved through a universal site license instead of selling user "seats." Our platform is universally useful across all departments and operational use cases, making participation more accessible and inclusive.

2) Reward Innovation & Collaboratio

Reward innovation and collaboration! Encourage employees to share ideas and experiment with new approaches. Recognizing and rewarding employees for their hard work and achievements can help boost morale and increase engagement. Encourage cross-functional collaboration and teamwork to build a sense of community and make employees feel more connected to each other and the organization.

3) Clearly Define and Communicate Rolesand Objectives

Clearly define and communicate roles and objectives. Clear and consistent communication is key to building a culture of excellence and engagement. Ensure that employees are kept informed about the organization's goals, challenges, and progress. A clear sense of purpose can help employees feel more connected to the organization's mission and understand how their work contributes to it.

4) Get onto “The Floor” and Lead by Example

Leaders should model the behaviors they want to see in their employees, including a commitment to excellence, a positive attitude, and a willingness to learn and grow. The hardest part of implementing a culture of engagement is simply finding time to do it. Leaders must prioritize engaging with frontline staff to make a real positive impact on the company.

5) Invest in Skills Development & Safety

Invest in skills development! Providing opportunities for training and development, both technical and non-technical, can help employees build their skills and feel more valued. Investing in employee skills and training can also have numerous other benefits for manufacturing organizations, including increased employee engagement, motivation, retention, productivity, and quality.

Elevated safety can have a positive impact on employee engagement at manufacturing organizations by building trust, boosting morale, reducing stress, increasing productivity, and improving retention. When employees feel safe at work

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Why is a Culture of Excellence important?

Industrial automation has revolutionized the manufacturing industry, but too much dependence on it can create disengaged employees. Building a Culture of Excellence can help to mitigate this issue.

Firstly, it's important to recognize that continuous improvement is essential to maintaining competitiveness and profitability in the manufacturing industry. In order to achieve this, a company needs to constantly look for ways to improve processes, products, and services. This requires additional work and a Culture of Excellence is required to drive continuous improvement.

Building a Culture of Excellence means creating an environment where employees are engaged, motivated, and committed to achieving the company's goals. When employees are engaged, they are more likely to be invested in the success of the company and willing to put in the extra effort required to drive continuous improvement. They will be more likely to identify areas for improvement and contribute innovation that can help the company stay ahead of the competition.

In addition, a Culture of Excellence can help to foster a sense of pride and ownership in the work that employees do. When employees feel that their work is valued and that they are contributing to the success of the company, they are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs and to remain loyal to the company.

Finally, building a Culture of Excellence can also help to attract and retain top talent. In a competitive industry like manufacturing, having a reputation for excellence can help to differentiate a company from its competitors and make it more attractive to potential employees.

Too much dependence on AI and Industry 4.0 industrial automation can also ostracize employees and destroy your culture. (Learn more about our take on Human Intelligence at https://weeverapps.com/human-intelligence)

How can Weever help?

Weever provides digital tools that unlocks your team's experience and insights, simplifies decision-making, and removes barriers that are hindering them from achieving their full potential.

Weever guides your team through digital workflows, and empowers them to easily capture their observations, insights, and improvement ideas.

The incredibly valuable human dimension of data capture, fuelled by instinct, experience and intuition, is something that is otherwise difficult to harness and action (and impossible when using paper).

Once captured, Weever transforms people-led data into actionable metrics and real-time insights that allow you to drive your organization forward.

Your employees, in turn, can see and feel the tangible impact that they are making – unlocking the success that comes through an empowered team.

Frontline Employee Engagement is a measure of how invested your frontline employees are in the growth and prosperity of your organization. If you change their investment level by enabling them, energizing them, and empowering them, you will reap the benefits of increased engagement.

Empower your staff with “bottom up” Operational Excellence tools. Allow staff to understand the value your organization is manufacturing and how it is delivered so that they can correct issues autonomously. Staff can submit suggestions, observations, and abnormality reports and watch the progress of them into site initiatives and improvement projects.
Energize your staff with personal goal tracking, gamification and automated reward points that they can redeem in your personalized rewards marketplace. Broadcast result KPIs and celebrate wins to keep staff engaged.
Enable your staff with instant access to modern software that is just as focused on Operational Excellence as it is on Employee Engagement. Weever makes it easy to collect data, track projects and view reports while staff can also review leaderboard, point totals and redeem rewards - all in one place.