Communication and Motivation

Recently, we were engaged by a business seeking to improve internal communication and motivate some 80 staff in a large, open office space.

Software applications were already in place to manage work-flow and reporting was relatively easy for management to obtain on demand. However, staff weren't always aware of how the rest of their team were performing., let alone the performance of the wider company. Often, this took the form of meetings which took the resource away from it's core objectives.

The solution? A software tool that analyses data in their database in real-time, configured around a set of performance indicators configured to suit.

So how to communicate those stats to staff? Connect in a server to drive the software and to output the resulting dashboard to a display screen: that's where TECknowledge comes in.

Our solution used a number of LCD flat screens to make the information available to all staff on the sales floor. There's an issue here though: you can only reliably run a VGA cable around 15 metres (depending on who you ask!). To overcome this, we proposed the use of VGA extenders, converting audio and video output from a single source to present content on a number of different screens, making use of existing CAT-5 cabling to carry the data before converting it back for screen connection without any degradation of quality of signal.

Peer pressure is an especially powerful force because it is so subtle.

Jim Rohn