The tides are turning when it comes to employee feedback. Traditional methods of conducting occasional reviews alongside an annual engagement survey used to be enough. But the post-COVID modern workplace demands a more responsive and individualised approach.
At Wotter, we are spearheading this evolution with continuous listening technology powered by artificial intelligence.
Why Legacy Feedback Systems Are No Longer Fit for Purpose
The deficiencies of episodic feedback models have become glaring in today’s business landscape. Conducting performance reviews or culture checks only once a year provides periodic snapshots that fail to account for rapidly evolving challenges, priorities and sentiments across a business.
Annual appraisals force managers to recall nuanced details about numerous direct reports after long gaps. Even with the best intentions, recall bias and recency effects cloud judgement. Surveys too often bake in assumptions rather than letting employee wisdom guide leaders. These intermittent pulse-checks also allow brewing problems around culture, equity, safety or ethics to go undetected between cycles. Without always-on access to the employee perspective, leaders risk blind spots around issues that can detrimentally impact talent retention and performance.
The Hidden Costs of Intermittent Insights
Reliance on legacy engagement and performance feedback cycles also carries hidden opportunity costs in today’s climate. Meeting only periodically means critical signals around brewing issues like discrimination, harassment or safety concerns can go undetected or be addressed too late. Isolated surveys make it impossible to continually benchmark progress on retention and diversity goals. Leadership flying blind for 11 out of 12 months can inadvertently perpetuate exclusionary and toxic cultural elements.
In contrast, always-on listening through confidential feedback channels provides continual access to marginalised voices. Ongoing aggregated analytics illuminate inclusion blind spots so interventions can occur early. And regular access to employee wisdom steadies leadership’s hand on the tiller through continual course corrections.
The Wotter Advantage: AI-Powered Continuous Listening
At Wotter, we provide organizations the compass and provisions needed to implement continuous listening powered by artificial intelligence. Our solutions deliver:
• Always-On Pulse: Regular insights on emerging trends, risks and opportunities through open-ended feedback channels analysed using natural language processing.
• Granular Visibility: Individualised insights into motivations, challenges and differences by location, tenure, role, and demographic to understand nuanced perspectives.
• Predictive Guidance: Proactive warnings around future friction points or disengagement drivers surfaced by multilayer analysis of past signals.
More Than Leading-Edge Technology
Wotter offers more than world-class AI and analytics. We guide partners in building transparent, equitable cultures focused on growth through regular feedback and dialogue. Our solutions automatically gather and interpret complex signals, extracting insights hidden in volumes of unstructured data. This allows people leaders across an organisation to focus entirely on fostering trust, listening actively and driving development.
Where Continuous Listening Can Take You
The vista of new potential from continuous listening is nearer than the horizon. With Wotter as your guide, embark on the odyssey toward AI-enabled feedback now. Let the revelations uncovered through sustained understanding of your people chart the course forward in turbulent times. The future belongs to responsive businesses that keep in tune with accelerating workplace evolution. Let us help you build a listening culture ready to ride the rapids of change.
