{"id":2283,"date":"2018-01-30T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:41:53","slug":"improving-employee-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/improving-employee-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving employee communication and productivity in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"author\" class=\"post-component text\">You want your team to have a successful year with better employee communication and improved productivity. As you enter the new year, you analyze what worked and didn&#8217;t work in the past several months. To move forward, you should take advantage of these collaboration tools that every company should use to thrive.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"customer-support-log\" class=\"header-component\"><strong>Customer support log<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Handling your customers can get really complicated. Especially, when you are managing a team or dealing with various customer issues. Keep a detailed log so that customer queries wouldn&#8217;t lose in the shuffle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-210647.jpeg\" alt=\"customer support employee communication\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Assigning the right employees to given cases will improve your customer services. You want your customers to feel important and cared for. Don\u2019t let them get lost in the hustle of your company\u2019s concerns. Use a tracking software. It will help you with managing customer queries, monitoring team&#8217;s performance, prioritizing questions, and gathering customer feedback.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"utilize-sms-text-for-employees\" class=\"header-component\"><strong>Utilize SMS text for employees<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trumpia.com\/hr\/overview.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text messaging<\/a> for better employee communication can be a smart move. But you might not want to invade your employee\u2019s personal phone with your workplace requirements. However, text messaging is incredibly effective for getting out mass messages to your teams. What&#8217;s more, it allows automating important company-wide reminders and improving communication between team members.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2311\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-367273.jpeg\" alt=\"texting in employee communication\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Texting is fast, cost-effective and is typically read within seconds from being sent. Text messages leave a digital trail to help you track what you\u2019ve communicated with any of your employees. Younger generations prefer texting over any other form of communication \u2013 including email, phone or in-person meetings.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"engage-employees-with-visual-content\" class=\"header-component\"><strong>Engage employees with visual content<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Don\u2019t expect your employees to be fully engaged if you are sending large blocks of text in newsletters and articles. Get your employees excited about behind-the-scenes videos from top managers and key employees. Use video, images,&nbsp;and infographics that are going to be processed by the brain more than 60,000x faster than text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2313 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-374016.jpeg\" alt=\"help employee be productive employee communication\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Visually appealing content can help communicate your training messages, policies, workplace strategies and other content quickly. So, you need to ensure that content is as interesting and as easy to get as possible.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"encourage-collaboration\" class=\"header-component\"><strong>Encourage collaboration<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">You want your team to communicate and work together on common goals at a high level. <a href=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaboration platforms like&nbsp;Futuramo<\/a> assist your team to work more effectively. Your team gains a centralized place for assigning workloads, exchanging tasks and sharing duties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2315 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/futuramo9-1280x800.png\" alt=\"collaboration tool for teams employee communication\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/futuramo9.png 1280w, https:\/\/futuramo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/futuramo9-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Your team will better manage workflows, report bugs, and analyze team&#8217;s performance with the smart apps. Companies that have the right collaboration tools are generally more successful. When the idea sharing comes easy, people can focus on being efficient in fulfilling their duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\">Keep your team on the same page and give your employees the best tools to work productively. These apps will improve your collaboration this year. Company communication is important for keeping your brand cohesive. Furthermore, your clients will see the difference in your services.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"post-component text\"><em>About the author:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-component text\"><em><strong>Joel Lee<\/strong> is the SEO marketing specialist at <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trumpia<\/a>, which earned a reputation as a complete SMS solution including user-friendly interface and API for mobile engagement, Smart Targeting, advanced automation, enterprise, and cross-channel features for both mass texting and landline texting use cases.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Give your team the best tools to improve employee communication and productivity. 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