› Newspaper › Subscribed news letters › Word of mouth › › TV

› Face to face conversations › › Verbal › with embedded links

› Hallway conversation › › Phone calls › Web sites › SharePoint › Group meetings › Employee info meeting › Digital Monitors › PEC › Lync › Posters › Loud Speakers

 Waterloo Communications Weekly  Advantages = good amount of information, good timing (not too often)  Disadvantages = Tired of “branding” questions, not topical information, sorting through garbage, don’t read it, too much of the info doesn’t pertain to me -> its non-targeted information Rated out of 5: 1,2,1,1

 PEC  Advantages – it has a targeted audience, good information, doesn’t seem to repeat WCW, good timing and not too often, contains limited to detailed information  Disadvantages – sometimes not current, create a mechanism for people to submit  Rated out of 5: 4,5,3,5

 Digital signage  Advantages – links to web sites w/ same content is good to be able to follow up, good information, it is easy to find, has good visuals, rotate on the employee engagement page which is helpful  Disadvantages – dangerous to look up at the screens, slow cycle times, have to stop walking to read in high traffic areas, only able to get partial information  Rated out of 5: 5,1,2,3

 Broadcast messages  Advantages – quick to get information on important issues, coverage, timeliness, it is there when I want to read it, timely for systems down information, comes from same  Disadvantages – not communicated well, no follow up, too many, interns and organization changes could be combined, limited value to most people

 Employee Engagement site  Advantages – one source, good amount of information  Disadvantages – not engaging, didn’t know it was there, SharePoint is a pain to navigate, hard to find the link  Rated out of 5: 3,2,3,3

Recognition wall  Advantages – mostly everyone has to walk by, high traffic area, easy to notice when walked by  Disadvantages – don’t know where it is, one of the areas is dark, limited number of people can view at one time, how to know when it changes, feeling of guilt to take the time to read it, it is a high traffic area – so you feel in the way when you stop and read it, not clear how you can get stuff added to the wall

› Would prefer primary communication to be through . I only want information that is important to my job (i.e. no more Deere Credit Union information) › Recognitions/awards: include this apart of PEC or WCW › Open positions, employee moves, retirements. Include this via staff meetings or one-on-one with supervisor

› Subscription categories and topics to choose from, so you can pick the information that you want to be communicated to you. › Noise cancelling headphones, so people in adjacent cubicles don’t disturb each other so much › Too many already › Do not use social medial, PA announcements- stop the music at the entrance › Focus on being professional on everything we do

For employee engagement activities  Posters/ s  PEC which is connected to meeting notice  PEC Calendar and notice via

Tips/tricks  s  PEC  Rollout of tool/feature- lunch and learn on the subject

Building information  s with links attached to them (DESIGN)  Follow up s after an initial broadcast – people like to know what’s going on

Trainings  WCW  s attached with links (DESIGN)

Lunch and Learns  Posters  Weekly s  Employee Engagement Site  PEC  PEC Calendar

Would you sign up and check your Twitter account?  “please don’t”  Definite no Yammer? It’s a private social network  “The only time that I would see this helpful is for ‘Tips/Tricks’, but usually that is connected somewhere else. So, I don’t think this would be useful for a majority of PEC.”

› Finding the information that is visible – have a tool to find it › Have a PEC specific Homepage – what is important to me what is going on in this building. There needs to be connectivity within the building. › Need to have a better search engine › Organizational announcements

› Weekly salary cards › C Projects › You have to dig for the information that you want (i.e. Waterloo Homepage)  Sometimes you just give up because it isn’t worth the effort  It isn’t worth the effort

Make a push for everyone to have a picture on Deere photo site Put organizational announcements back on front of WW homepage Hold a panel conversation on the subject of communications like the career panel Share a vision of where and when web cameras will fit into Deere’s future