Suggestions
Good ideas don’t always come from the top, and making suggestions is not as easy as you would think! You could be missing out on some game changing ideas. Encouraging suggestions from workers can increase sales, reduce costs, eliminate waste, improve productivity, boost morale, and even save lives.
Why we love Suggestions.
Here at Workhub, we address all our suggestions during a monthly meeting. In our experience this shows our employees that the company is listening, encourages them to feel confident in sharing and helps garner engagement in company culture. It has also allowed us to increase transparency between management and employees regarding company decisions. Every month we go over a variety of suggestions ranging in excellence, from: ‘we need tastier beers in the cooler’ to ‘the sun is in my eyes from 2-3pm on Wednesdays – can we turn it off?’ We don’t know where we would be without these recommendations from our brilliant staff.
Prepare yourself for a spectrum of suggestions
You have a lot of control over what workers can post. Admins decide if suggestions can be created anonymously, if they need admin approval for they are shared with your workers, and if staff can rate or comment on suggestions anonymously.
New suggestions will appear in the admin portal and can be marked as pending, approved, implemented, or declined. Not every suggestion will work for your organization, but you can let them down gently with a detailed explanation for why. The last thing you want to do is discourage future suggestions!
Big Ideas ...
When making a suggestion, your workers can provide background information and a proposed solution for a perceived problem or challenge. Workers can identify potential benefits of their proposed solution and can even calculate the expected return on investment by estimating savings.
After submission, other workers can rate the suggestion on a five start scale, add their comments, and give a thumbs up to express their sentiments. Once a worker has rated a suggestion, they will see all the details for it, including the author (if they posted using their name), current status, and its average rating with the organization as a whole.
... Incremental change!
Take action on the suggestions submitted and voted on by your workers by creating Action Items. Assign tasks to your team to make suggestions a reality. Let your workers know your intentions by commenting as an admin on suggestions' status and watch your workplace become faster, more efficient, less wasteful, and cost-effective!
Overview
Engagement
Drive up engagement in your organization by allowing employees to submit suggestions regarding workplace culture, policies/procedures, and more.
Rate and Comment
Get additional feedback by allowing other workers to rate a fellow employee’s suggestion.
Optional Anonymity
Give workers the ability to provide insight without fear of backlash, or criticism. Select whether workers can remain anonymous when suggesting, rating, or commenting.
Approval
Select whether admins need to review suggestions and comments before making them visible to other workers. Admins can respond directly to suggestions.
Assess Proposition Value
If workers enter an estimated value of benefits and costs saved the software will automatically calculate a return on investment.
Transparency
Workers can see which suggestions have been implemented and approved, and which are pending or declined.
Still have questions?
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