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Episode Synopsis
Erica Keener is the Learning Performance Designer for Skyllful. She sees how important communication is and how to change a “us vs them” mentality to a team oriented one. Originally, Erica was in the clinical medicine industry but switched over to an administrative side and found that she really loved onboarding employees and teaching others to be excited about their work. Eric joins host Justin Lake to talk about some of the challenges facing frontline workers and how we can empower them.
Takeaways
The biggest challenge facing deskless workers today is balancing the need for autonomy with a potential lack of communication.
Frontline workers have to be able to make decisions without a lot of guidance and that causes a rift between frontline workers and those in the office.
Learning and development helps employees to understand their goals and find the best and most efficient ways to achieve them.
When managing a project, you want to mitigate risks as that will bring a better result and yield a hiring return.
Lack of communication and accountability are big factors when trying to implement new technology for deskless workers.
You need to have a unified concept and message at all levels when trying to implement change or new technology. If they are all different messages or concepts it gets muddied and makes it confusing.
It’s easier to abandon the change and what it’s supposed to be rather than unifying the team, but that doesn’t make it right. It’s better to do the harder right and get everyone on the same page than the easier wrong.
Quote of the show
31:26 “Essential workers need essential leaders.”
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica123/
Company Website: https://www.skyllful.com/
Ways to Tune In:
Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/2f4ecd92-6468-4769-b0bf-254e236510b7/FRONTLINE-INNOVATORS
Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frontline-innovators/id1572329402
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/29m3wnK8pbFjdSvJ9wjmyS
Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/frontline-innovators
Google Play - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnJvbnRsaW5laW5ub3ZhdG9ycy5jb20vZmVlZC54bWw
YouTube - https://youtu.be/fOAifdeyoOo
Takeaways
The biggest challenge facing deskless workers today is balancing the need for autonomy with a potential lack of communication.
Frontline workers have to be able to make decisions without a lot of guidance and that causes a rift between frontline workers and those in the office.
Learning and development helps employees to understand their goals and find the best and most efficient ways to achieve them.
When managing a project, you want to mitigate risks as that will bring a better result and yield a hiring return.
Lack of communication and accountability are big factors when trying to implement new technology for deskless workers.
You need to have a unified concept and message at all levels when trying to implement change or new technology. If they are all different messages or concepts it gets muddied and makes it confusing.
It’s easier to abandon the change and what it’s supposed to be rather than unifying the team, but that doesn’t make it right. It’s better to do the harder right and get everyone on the same page than the easier wrong.
Quote of the show
31:26 “Essential workers need essential leaders.”
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica123/
Company Website: https://www.skyllful.com/
Ways to Tune In:
Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/2f4ecd92-6468-4769-b0bf-254e236510b7/FRONTLINE-INNOVATORS
Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frontline-innovators/id1572329402
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/29m3wnK8pbFjdSvJ9wjmyS
Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/frontline-innovators
Google Play - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnJvbnRsaW5laW5ub3ZhdG9ycy5jb20vZmVlZC54bWw
YouTube - https://youtu.be/fOAifdeyoOo
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