Here's your overall score!

Looking good - but there’s still room to improve!

Level 4: Following


Legacy


Lagging


Emerging


Following


Empowered


Best in Class

You’ve spent the time (and money) implementing a dedicated communications platform for your stores, and you’ve even invested in mobile-first solutions. While you have great technology, your teams’ best practices aren’t quite up to snuff. As a result, your solution is underutilized and adoption is a struggle.

Let’s break it down:

People Score:
Following


Legacy


Lagging


Emerging


Following


Empowered


Best in Class

Your field and store leaders are bought into your company vision and priorities (nice work!), but there’s still room to improve when it comes to frontline employees.

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Connected and Informed Workforce

Level 4: Following

Your communication is targeted by location so there is no risk of a store team looking at irrelevant directives. It’s likely mobile-enabled but frontline/PT employees still lack comprehensive access to handheld devices.

Empowered Associates

Level 5: Empowered

Store employees are continually encouraged to make their voices heard and share positive and negative feedback via a dedicated platform, and your company makes eventual pivots and business decisions based on feedback collected from the field.

Agile Store Execution

Level 5: Empowered

Employees are allowed and actively encouraged by their manager and corporate headquarters leaders to make in-the-moment decisions that drive better business in their store location.

Process Score:
Following


Legacy


Lagging


Emerging


Following


Empowered


Best in Class

You’ve proven you can get messages and tasks to your field team on a regular basis. Now it’s time to optimize your targeting and timing to take your process to the next level.

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Communication Process + Strategy

Level 5: Empowered

You have an established leadership communications strategy and field leaders/district managers play a role in ensuring that company priorities are cascaded and understood. Task-based communication includes proper context.

Metrics Tracking + Insights

Level 4: Following

You track task completion rates, readership and engagement metrics on a regular basis.

Tech Score:
Following


Legacy


Lagging


Emerging


Following


Empowered


Best in Class

You have the technology… but are your field teams really using it? You’ve taken the leap and invested in technology specifically built for this use case: engaging frontline employees. Now it’s time to dig deep to get everything you can from your platform.

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Scalable Core Platform

Level 4: Following

You’re using a point solution with communication, task management, and 1-1 messaging capabilities embedded into a single platform.

Information + Availability

Level 4: Following

Critical live-long documents may still be placed on an intranet or server. While this information is targeted by location (so the likelihood of looking at irrelevant direction is low), searchability is still poor.

Technology Adoption

Level 5: Empowered

All of your field/district leaders and store leaders use your communication solution on a daily basis. More than half of your frontline hourly associates access your communication solution on a regular basis, and a sizable portion of headquarters employees use your communication solution to send information to stores.

But wait, there’s more! Check out your unique Store Enablement Maturity Matrix below.

Your overall score is based on a combination of factors that influence the effectiveness of people, process, and technology. We created this six-step Store Enablement Maturity Model based on insights from our own retail customers, data gathered from our State of Store Comms report, as well as the combined store communication and retail leadership experience of our own employees.

Legacy
Lagging
Emerging
Following
Empowered
Best in Class

Overall People Score

Right communications to the right people

% of Readership

Frontline employees alignment to company’s priorities

Feedback and Insights Collection

Associates’ daily guidance and level of supervision

% of Execution

Autonomy

Overall Process Score

Communications Modus Operandi

Metrics & Insights

Overall Technology Score

Scalable Solution

Access to information and key documents

Adoption

% of adoption

Okay, Great! Now what?

We’re so glad you took time for this assessment! Your account manager will also receive your score and will reach out to you to discuss your results, then prioritize what’s most important to your organization. We’ll partner with you to develop an agreeable action plan and guide you toward best-in-class status while transforming your frontline teams into an aligned, empowered, and connected group of brand advocates.