DSMN8 features internal video announcements for truly effective remote leadership
Thanks to technological advances, companies are now spread geographically farther than ever, which means effectively communicating with your staff in one place is harder than ever.
Outside of email, which in itself is somewhat impersonal, there hasn’t been an accessible way to communicate with your workforce in real time, fostering an internal community and strengthening company culture.
One of the biggest perceived setbacks of a remote workforce is effectively managing your employees.
A concern commonly expressed by organizations of all sizes is that, with a remote workforce, employees will lose touch with the company and become distant and disengaged due to a lack of direct involvement.
The obvious solution here would be to opt for an internal communications tool.
Slack, for example, might spring to mind as a solution for employees to communicate with their teams. However, for large organizations, communicating only with your team or department simply isn’t enough.
This can further segment or silo your company, doing little to overcome geographical and departmental boundaries.
Video communications are a critical part of remote working
The Solution: Video Communications
In the digital age, video has become one of our most effective forms of communication, whether for conversation or education.
And video content also performs exceptionally well on social media, engaging both internal employees and external audiences.
Even LinkedIn’s algorithm has been pushing short-form video as of late!
Going video-first as a communication strategy can be very effective. In fact, Forbes lists this as one of their top ways to manage a remote workforce.
With DSMN8’s employee advocacy and internal communications platform, you can create internal video announcements to share with your team and upload video content for your employees to share externally.
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For remote employees working on MacBooks, ensuring smooth video playback and multitasking is essential for seamless communication. Following a few simple steps for MacBook can help reduce memory usage and improve overall performance during video calls and internal announcements.
Remote leadership is easier than you think with DSMN8’s video announcements
Video Updates with DSMN8
Video updates are an effective way for senior management to communicate with employees, regardless of their department or geography. They add a personal touch that an email simply doesn’t.
Use video announcements to share critical company updates, fostering involvement and increasing employee knowledge.
A video update within the DSMN8 platform can be distributed company-wide or segmented to specific regions, departments, or teams.
Most employees in large organizations don’t have the opportunity to communicate with their CEO, especially if the organization is primarily remote.
This can result in decreased employee engagement when they perceive the CEO as disconnected from the company.
Video updates won’t fix everything, but they will have an impact on perception, enabling employees to feel a bit more connected to the company and leadership team.
Perhaps you have a new recruit you’d like to welcome to your remote workforce.
A video message can be just the ticket to allow them to make a proper introduction and display their personality.
Maybe you have an engineering employee who’s been working on something they’d like to demo or get feedback on.
These are just a handful of uses for video communications that will help maintain employee knowledge and preserve your company culture.
Within DSMN8, you can even ‘pin’ a particular post, ensuring that no updates are missed.
It works on mobile, too. It has truly never been easier for leaders to distribute video announcements to their teams 🙌
Pinning posts to the top of employees’ feeds means the most important content never goes unseen.
DSMN8's Employee Engagement Features
The video updates feature is just one of an array of unique employee engagement features within the DSMN8 platform.
It also boasts Polls and High Five features that are innovative ways to maintain employee interactions outside of the office.
The Polls feature makes it easy to quickly gather opinions from your entire company or specific departments. This is a great way to involve employees in your content strategy, by asking whether they’d like to see more videos, case studies, or carousel posts, for example.
High Fives allow any user to praise a colleague who has done something outstanding, highlighting their impact across the company. This ensures everyone receives recognition for their efforts.
And of course, employees can react to or comment on any post within the platform, whether it’s an internal update or content provided for sharing on social media.
Effectively communicating with your employees is something that all organizations should strive for, whether you’re entirely office-based, hybrid, or full remote.
DSMN8 makes it easy to manage internal and external communications, while integrating with tools you may already be using.
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Lewis Gray
Senior Marketing Manager and Employee Advocacy Program Manager at DSMN8. Lewis specialises in content strategy, growing brand visibility and generating inbound leads. His background in Sales lends itself well to demand generation in the B2B niche.
