Health Care Organizations Use Waggl to Harness Wisdom and Activate Talent
Sausalito, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2017 -- Waggl, a technology platform that surfaces and distills real-time insights from groups of people, today announced that it is working with several leaders in the healthcare industry to spark ideas, and inspire 2-way dialogue between their internal teams.
Leading health care organizations including University of Utah Health, UCSF Emergency Residents in San Francisco, and Avella, among others, are using Waggl to facilitate communication between employees, management, and various departments.
University of Utah Health is the Intermountain West’s only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting. The system provides care for Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States. They are using Waggl to enhance communications with staff around onboarding and orientation, and to get actionable feedback in real-time from physicians about whether they feel valued and empowered in their practice. “Using Waggl has enabled us to customize our New Employee Orientation to meet the actual needs of employees versus following our traditional standardized approach. Employees leave NEO with tools, resources, and information to succeed help them in their new jobs,” said Rick Smith, Senior Director, Human Resource Management, University of Utah Health Academics. “Our physicians were highly engaged in participating in a survey about them feeling valued and having a say in their practice. Response rates were much higher than normal and we received excellent actionable feedback.”
UCSF Emergency Medicine Residents is using Waggl to facilitate scheduling around conferences, and ease the logistics around internal communications processes. And Avella, a specialty pharmacy recognized nationally for its high-touch customer service, is also using Waggl to connect people and get actionable feedback in real time.
Waggl helps enterprises create a more responsive listening culture, and in turn, a more engaged and motivated workforce. A Waggl pulse can be set up and deployed within minutes. Participants use pairwise voting to crowdsource and rank responses. Waggl generates heat maps, analytics, and infographic reports, and also yields other valuable benefits, such as fostering greater trust and respect between colleagues and deeper alignment around issues.
“These health care organizations are at the top of their industry in terms of the quality of care, education and research they provide, and yet they are still striving every day to be even better at what they do,” said Michael Papay, CEO of Waggl. “This passion and relentless drive for excellence comes from the heart and soul of these organizations – the people that work there. They realize have a goldmine of talent and that the best ideas can come from anywhere in their organization. By using Waggl to tap into the inherent ‘wisdom in the system,’ they are igniting the creativity and passion of their staff, which translates directly into innovation.”
Waggl will participate in Advanced Learning Institute’s upcoming conference, Strategic Internal Communications for Health Care, April 19-21 in Chicago, IL. For more information, please contact Tommy Herbst at tommy.herbst(at)waggl(dot)com.
About Waggl
Waggl is the most human way for organizations to crowdsource feedback. Named after the dance that bees do in a hive to transmit important information very quickly, Waggl lives at the intersection of two organizational realities: Companies want an engaged workforce and employees want to know that their opinions count. Waggl goes beyond the traditional survey by offering an extremely easy way to listen to many voices at once within an organization for the purpose of making it better. Waggl’s real-time listening platform creates a transparent, authentic two-way dialogue that gives people a voice, distills insights, and unites organizations through purpose. With a highly seasoned management team and a Board including esteemed executives from Glassdoor, Success Factors, and Coupa, Waggl is an innovative industry leader helping companies of all sizes to succeed by building a listening culture. For more information, please visit: http://www.waggl.com/.
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Rebecca West, Helium Communications, http://heliumcommunications.net, +1 415.260.6094, [email protected]
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