3 Golden Rules to Grab your Employee’s attention

When the most valuable thing you can get from an employee in this day and age is undivided attention that can cut through the cacophony of emails, text messages, social media updates and even office chatter, you should aim to build it and use it to further engage with you employees though clear and simple communication. 

Here are some ways you can consider when trying to tap into your employees attention span:

Central communications hub
Make sure all your policies and memos are placed and distributed from one central location, you could use an internal communication system or even use HR software to do this. Employees will recognise the emails as authoritative and meaningful and spend time reading and understanding it’s contents when they recognise where it comes from and have an idea of the importance of its contents.

Reward their attention
When you see that an employee has read an understood a document, it would help if you sent them a little acknowledgement, this could be in the form of an email, or you could name and fame them as well. Rewards we can experience, or even just visualize have a greater impact on our attention.

Keep it useful
Make sure that the communications you send to them is useful and not just spam. This will reinforce the idea that the messages are important and authoritative and cut through the clutter with immediacy.

Vary your style
Your information does not always have to be an lengthy, wordy article, a cartoon now and again to get your point across will not hurt you. In fact, it will be helpful and a bit of break from work for your readers.  


Following these three golden rules will get you the attention you need from your employees towards you documents, memos and emails. It will inculcate a habit of checking to see if there has been any new communication and will help keep your staff up-to-date with all you policies and procedures.

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