Five Tools for Creating an Inclusive and Encouraging Environment at Work
Creating a diverse workforce and a positive work environment requires a long-term strategy. And although relying on technology alone will not immediately make all of your employees happy, choosing the right tools might be of help when establishing an inclusive and encouraging corporate culture.
This article reviews a few handy apps and services that can support your HR strategy.
Brainy HR: automated rewarding program
Brainy HR is a full-fledged employee management suite. Among its many functions is the flexible rewarding system that you can use to nurture great corporate culture. The importance of rewarding employees can hardly be overestimated — according to the study by Achievers, the lack of recognition was the most common reason why employees quit their jobs.
With Brainy HR, you can develop your own rewards program and set a list of actions that can be rewarded and the rewards themselves. For example, team members can obtain points for achieving certain goals, showing good results, or for birthdays as a special “Thank you” from the company, and then exchange these points for some rewards (extra days off, money, corporate gifts, etc.). What is especially valuable, adding points can be automated, which excludes any prejudiced or unfair rewarding.
Igloo: neat digital workplaces
One of the issues in corporate communications is that they are often not public or only partially public and can leave certain employees out of the picture, which results in their growing frustration. So adopting a unified internal communications platform like Igloo can help solve this problem.
Igloo encompasses many features from file sharing, forums, polls and calendars to dedicated spaces, tasks, knowledge bases and broadcasting. All these help create digital workplaces that meet the needs of all your team members, including end users, content creators, and administrators.
Toggl: smart time management
Bad planning can result in situations where employees are either overloaded with tasks or goofing off not knowing what to do next. These extremes certainly don’t bring value to the corporate culture. To balance your team’s daily working activities, consider implementing time management software like Toggl.
This tool enables simple planning (Toggl Plan) and time tracking (Toggl Track), including the auto-tracking of every application or website you use for more than 10 seconds. You can add checklists and memos, upload files, set milestones, and assign tasks to multiple people to make collaboration quick and easy. Moreover, you can integrate Toggl with over 100 other apps to make your employees’ work even more effective.
Lessonly: effective training and onboarding
According to the research by Glassdoor, great employee onboarding can improve employee retention by 82% and increase productivity by over 70%. Employees generally view learning opportunities as a huge benefit, so it’s a great way to raise the attractiveness of your company for job candidates and grow the employees’ engagement and loyalty.
Lessonly provides a corporate learning environment enabling teams to study, practice, and do better work. It is well suited for both the initial onboarding process and regular upgrade training or reskilling. With Lessonly, you can quickly create learning courses using various content formats, engage employees, track their progress and test their knowledge.
Applied: unbiased hiring
Inclusive working environment starts with a bias-free hiring process — which is not a trivial thing to do. You need to make sure that all candidates are assessed in the same manner and against the same criteria. Quite often, we’re prone to unconscious bias when we form an opinion about a candidate based solely on first impressions.
To avoid this, consider using an AI-powered hiring platform like Applied. It relies on research and data-driven methodology to find the highest quality candidates irrespective of their age, origin, gender, faith, etc. This enables businesses to make hiring decisions based purely on skills. Besides, the developers promise you’ll get 3x as many suitable candidates because you’ll spend less time reviewing unsuitable applicants.
