C’est incroyable tout ce que peuvent faire les applications de téléphones intelligents de nos jours : elles vous permettent de garder contact avec vos amis et votre famille, vous informent des dernières nouvelles, vous offrent des divertissements exceptionnels, vous aident à conduire sans vous perdre et vous aident même à trouver les étoiles dans le ciel!
Il n’est donc pas étonnant que diverses applications puissent aussi vous aider à améliorer la communication avec votre équipe, et au sein de votre équipe, d’autant plus que vos collègues arrivent tous au travail avec un téléphone intelligent sur eux!
Avantages des applications sur le plan de la communication et des activités opérationnelles
Les applications améliorent les communications au sein de votre équipe de diverses manières :
- Communications sur le terrain;
- Expérience de téléconférence;
- Partage de documents;
- Gestion de groupe;
- Planification des calendriers.
Grâce à une meilleure communication d’équipe, les activités globales du producteur autorisé tirent parti d’importants avantages :
- En faire plus en moins de temps;
- Optimiser la production;
- Prévenir des erreurs;
- Stimuler les résultats;
- Former les nouveaux employés plus rapidement;
- Déléguer davantage.
Choisir les applications qui vous conviennent le mieux
Nous avons d’abord partagé comment les applications comme WatsApp peuvent vous aider à communiquer plus rapidement avec les membres de votre équipe et à améliorer la communication dans un article précédent intitulé Cultivateurs passionnés recherchés!. Maintenant, dans le présent article, nous irons plus en profondeur en vue de vous aider à choisir, à configurer et à utiliser une application de communication dans le cadre de vos activités.
Des chefs de culture issus de différents producteurs autorisés ont partagé avec CANNA de nombreuses autres applications qui ont bien fonctionné au sein de leurs équipes. En voici quelques exemples :
- Microsoft Teams
- Skype
- Slack
- Zoom
- Jitsi
- Facebook Messenger
- Signal
- Telegram
- Discord
- Applications Google
Mais parmi toutes ces options, comment faire un choix éclairé? L’idée est de déterminer la plateforme qui convient le mieux à la taille et aux besoins de votre organisation. Voici quelques facteurs à considérer; lesquels sont les plus importants pour vous?
- Quel est le niveau de sécurité de l’application?
- Quel est le niveau d’accessibilité de l’application?
- Quel est le niveau de fiabilité de l’application?
- Pouvons-nous partager beaucoup de photos et de documents au quotidien?
- Est-il facile de retrouver des images envoyées antérieurement?
- L’application est-elle conviviale pour vos employés? (choisir des applications qu’ils connaissent déjà peut faciliter les choses)
- L’application est-elle gratuite ou payante?
s’agit d’une importante décision, alors prenez le temps de bien faire vos recherches et d’évaluer plusieurs options afin de faire un choix éclairé.
We use Microsoft Teams and Outlook, which aids well. But to cut down on communication we also use Smartsheets to fill out and send to an administrator to collaborate the information cutting down on some of the communication.Meurig Murray - Flower Supervisor at Zenabis Global Inc.
Setting up groups in your app
By setting up groups to filter messages within your app, you can ensure you don’t waste people’s time reading messages that don’t apply to them, and also ensure people are less likely to tune out messages that matter. You can also tag your documents and images with the appropriate groups so they are easier for the right people to find.
Of course, feel free to create other groups that better match up with your team structure and key process functions.
How to manage your app groups
With some smart planning and internal guidelines, you can get even more value from your app.
- Choose an admin for each group. That person becomes responsible for who is in their group, what is shared, and how it is shared.
- Set rules with staff on how you communicate. In some channels your messages can be more casual, but in others it is very formal, evenstructured. For example, it’s good to have a place for your team to blow off steam and share jokes – the “random” group at the end of the listabove is a good place for that. A few channels are very formal, whereyour messages must follow a precise code format, such as with scheduling or environmental control. But for most, be flexible, allowing chit chat, to mirror how people communicate at work in other ways.
- Post relevant process documents to each group. For example, you maypost documents outlining your production steps to harvesting your crop, oryour daily, weekly, and post-harvest sanitization procedures.
For our production staff we have Bell PTT (Push-to-Talk) devices that work similar to walkie-talkies with both wifi and cellular capabilities. Any way that can make communicating more effective is worth it in the end!Alexander Weiland Roy - Production Manager at ORGANIGRAM LTD
Better team communication? Yes, there’s an app for that!
There are many free or low-cost apps you can choose from that will make your facility run smoother – and make your life easier! Invest some time evaluating various apps, then setting up the app you choose. That investment in time will pay off in spades!
We use Microsoft Teams to communicate with each other. We encourage our team leads, section growers, IPM department and QA to download the APP on to their phone as well. On the app we have different teams with different responsibilities.
- Our Team Lead group is focused on the flow of work within the facility and in each leads section.
- Our Section Growers group allows growers to communicate with me about potential problems within the grow rooms and allows me to find them easier.
- Our IPM department communicates with us about biological applications scheduling in the rooms.
- Our QA Group allows us to share any concerns with the QA manager and associates directly.
We can share pictures, documents and paperwork we’ve completed to different departments with the APP. It’s a very useful tool in our facility.
-Bobby Bains - Head Growers at Delta 9 Bio Tech
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We will share on this blog many of the great ideas from this virtual conference. Keep coming back to our blog to read upcoming posts as we share the best ideas and insights from pioneering Canadian cannabis Lead Growers.
