How can you cultivate employee engagement? 5 ideas to promote through internal email signatures.

By
Amandine Fernandez
Head of Acquisition
How can you sustainably engage employees? This is one of the questions companies must resolve in order to maintain strong ties with their teams. Ties which need to be regularly strengthened through a variety of initiatives.

Go beyond well-being at work

We’ve gone from well-being at work to employee engagement. Well-being at work encompasses employees’ physical and mental health, with an underlying idea: battling psycho-social risks. Employee engagement goes even further. It is a dynamic and positive concept which seeks to create a strong emotional bond between the employee and the company – an engaged employee thrives and is efficient.

Different challenges, different solutions. It’s no longer enough to simply implement tools for well-being at work – customized work station, company psychologist, empowerment, etc. To attain the holy grail of engagement, companies must take a proactive role. They must implement tools that are a vector of involvement. Tools that can be easily and automatically inserted into employees’ daily routines. Without a doubt, the best way to  share these tools is through email signatures, a touchpoint that is both omnipresent and discreet.

Let’s take a look at several employee engagement campaigns that are easily integrated into email signatures.

Cultivate employee engagement: create an idea box

The best way to get employees more involved is to listen to their ideas. An idea box provides a virtual space where anyone can submit their ideas to improve company life. One way of creating ascending communication and taking an ethical approach is to establish fruit baskets or an internal or enterprise social network, launch an application, reduce supply expenses, etc.

Cultivate employee engagement: Announce a call for projects

More than just an idea, a call for projects offers employees the chance to formalize a concrete project. A specific theme can even be highlighted, such as social & environmental responsibility projects. By clicking on the banner, employees are taken to a form where they can fill in all of their project’s features. In a subsequent banner, employees will be asked to vote for their favorite project. The elected projects will be launched after a call for contribution has been put out to mobilize volunteers.

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Cultivate employee engagement: Conduct a survey

Voting for a project is not the only way to solicit employees’ opinions. A survey can shed light on their satisfaction levels and expectations. Results are clear and easily intelligible to managers. A short infographic can then be used to communicate the results during the next campaign.

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We have produced two eBooks in which you will discover tips and use cases that are easy to apply. You’ll be able to strengthen the commitment of your employees or to carry out your change management projects – all with the help of your email signatures!

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Cultivate employee engagement: Entertaining with quizzes

An equally interactive but more entertaining option: a quiz can also be easily added to banners. It could be about current events, the company’s history, a new project, sports, culture, etc. Obviously, the theme doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to the company. The answer key can contain some sort of reward and provide valuable information about employees’ interests.

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Cultivate employee engagement: Establishing a mentorship program

It’s not always easy to envision the next steps in one’s professional career or to anticipate them through training. By connecting more experienced employees with younger ones, mentorship helps guide the latter in their career. Mentors are not managers, and do not necessarily have to be company employees. Mentees can speak their minds and openly discuss their concerns and expectations in order to plan out their own careers. By associating it with a name or even a logo, a mentorship program can be efficiently promoted in email signatures.

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This list is far from exhaustive. Any actions that promote employee engagement should be considered. What matters is customizing each action to the company’s specificities, values, and needs. These actions should provide an opportunity to reintroduce dialogue that has often fallen to the wayside due to telecommuting. By promoting interactivity, cooperation and productivity are equally strengthened.

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Sources:
https://www.inrs.fr/risques/bien-etre-travail/ce-qu-il-faut-retenir.html
https://fr.surveymonkey.com/mp/employee-satisfaction-surveys/
https://www.la-croix.com/Economie/Economie-et-entreprises/boite-idees-travail-bonne-idee-2019-09-02-1201044681
https://beeshake.com/outil-dengagement-collaborateur/

About the author
Amandine is the Head of Acquisition at Letsignit! Initially a content specialist, she now actively contributes to the profitability of acquisition channels: SEO, SEA, SMA, SMO... Amandine is also one of the pillars of Marketing at Letsignit! For more than 5 years, she has been participating in and initiating marketing projects and campaigns that systematically reflect her vision, writing style, and creativity (which can also be seen in all of her colorful outfits that brighten up the day of everyone she meets).
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Frequently
asked questions
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Is it possible to track the number of clicks on email signatures?

Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.

You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.

If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.

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Can we add links to social networks, our website, and appointment-setting applications such as Calendly?

With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.

And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.

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Can employees update their signature information themselves (number, function, etc.)?

It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.

This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.

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Why it is important to standardize our email signatures on a large scale to ensure our identity and brand image?

It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!

A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.

With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.

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What is the user experience like for our employees?

What is the user experience like for our employees?

  • If you opt for the Letsignit Add-in for Outlook, they will have a dedicated space in their Outlook account where they will be able to view the signatures and campaigns assigned to them.
  • If you opt for the Letsignit Desktop APP, they will be able to preview all their signatures and campaigns in this space. If they want to change their default signature to another one when sending an email, this will be done in their signature library in Outlook.

In both cases:

  • They preview their signature before sending an email and choose from signatures assigned to them.
  • Based on the permissions granted, they will also be able to modify their personal information such as their name, position, or address in these spaces.

In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.

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Can my employees have multiple signatures available to them?

With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.

Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:

Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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Regarding “Green IT,” have you implemented measures to limit the digital footprint of email signatures?

If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.

As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:

  • Optimization of the weight of signatures and campaigns in emails.
  • Green features: lightening of signatures during response/transfer emails, possibility of not embedding images, implementation of lighter signatures for internal exchanges.
  • Integration of a 'Switch to Teams' widget to encourage your employees to continue their exchanges via chat, rather than email.

As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.

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