Company Culture and its Impact – A Collaboration Portal to the rescue.
Big dreams often happen in small spaces – A quote that has made its prominence in the recent work from home times. Social distancing, remote work but we are online to support are all the terms that’s doing the rounds in the corporate circle. A key management concern is “How do we ensure we have our company culture intact and at the same time adapt to the new normal?”.
Well, the way forward is adopt and innovate. From a company culture perspective, Company culture refers to the personality of a company. It defines the environment in which employees work. Company culture includes a variety of elements, including work environment, company mission, value, ethics, expectations, and goals. This can be solely achieved by Employee engagement through communication.
The critical questions that arise during these times are how will the communication be targeted to specific group of audience? How are my dispersed team working and staying focused? How do we track and see, how they are delivering on to their goals? Some of companies went through the same dilemma but took the dip and now they have formats established to be followed and stay on the upper curve.
That’s where a Collaboration Portal steps in. It addresses the following 3 major areas of company culture.
- Communication – Positivity
- Tasks & Goals
- Know how & appreciation
Communication – Being Positive in the communication is the most important thing of the employee engagement. This can be achieved by regular mass email or having a collaboration portal that can help to publish news. Positivity can be enhanced by sharing new stories about dispersed teams how they perform as Hero news, specific teams achieving a major milestone during the demanding times like CoVID in announcements. The portal should also help you to have a quick news ticker for very important updates, like the Crisis management etc.
Tasks & Goals – A company’s culture is imbibed in its DNA as to how it delivers on the goals. In a regular office environment, this becomes an easy activity of a quick face to face meeting & a proximity check. In a remote working culture, these needs more effective planning. A collaborative portal can address the same by engaging the team through tasks and goals assignment. Break the activities using a planner to tasks and sub-tasks. Have a quick pulse check call every day in the morning to follow-up on the status and the tasks in hand. A portal that can integrate with any tools and shares the update in a single platform enables for every team to know their deliverables and actionable. This enables transparency and transparency makes it more accurate and efficient.
Know how & Appreciation – In a regular working environment, to get to the SME within a company, the team members reach to them through line of authority or drops it at their desk. That’s the power of direct human interaction. However, in a remote working environment, the company needs to build a strong knowledge repository as well as FAQ’s in place. The possibility of quick chat/interaction becomes tough and hence a strong knowledge repository as well as collaboration libraries helps to keep the team to get the information that’s in need.
To make the team as well as employees happy, nothing beats appreciation. Have them appreciated through appreciation widget, so it’s widely seen across their department or the company.
We cannot predict what the pandemic will lead to, but we chart our own course by aligning in a right direction of enabling the best tools for working from home. That’s where REMO steps in to help and bring the company’s diversified workforce for remote work. Every challenge has its own impact. Let’s collaborate more effectively and efficiently to ensure it’s for the better.
