Bridgio

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”

This quote by business leadership expert Simon Sinek perfectly exemplifies the importance of effective employee engagement strategies. Healthy employee engagements stimulate businesses to create their version of employee experience programs. However, the pandemic-driven emergence and accelerated adoption of remote or hybrid work models are making it difficult for C-suites to align their initiatives with emerging trends that generate high employee engagement in the new normal.

Bridgio bypasses these complexities and boosts employee connections through simple and custom interaction experiences that establish meaningful employee relationships and maximize workplace trust.

“If a water cooler is the only workplace element that brings your employees together, then you are lagging on equipping your offices with intuitive, tech-driven employee engagement solutions. Operations today need tools specifically designed for the evolving communication needs of digitalized environments,” says Paul Jones, founder of Bridgio.

At the heart of this competency is Bridgio’s seasoned team of employee communication specialists, dubbed ‘connection chemists.’ These experts develop ideas that create better employee connection experiences using sorting questions that creatively distribute employees into breakout rooms to stimulate conversations. For example, one conversation can lead to a coffee date because of the common ground identified with each other, minimizing any misunderstandings that may affect work operations. This reduces the pressure on an HR or executive team to develop employee connection ideas. Above all, Bridgio’s ‘connection chemistry’ enables employees to know their peers irrespective of their roles, titles, and designations.

The genesis of Jones’ ‘connection chemistry’ idea is rooted in his time working as a river guide in Jackson, Wyoming. At the time, he would take adrenaline junkies through an eight-mile Whitewater experience. What he found interesting was the sheer difference in the connection between a group’s entry and exit bus rides. Jones noticed that while the guests traveled on the bus to the river, things were quiet and people stuck to their groups. In stark contrast, buses were full of laughter and conversation with new friends after the whitewater experience, with many swapping contact information.Subsequently,this idea of building trust with activities that drive communication and collaboration became the core of Bridgio’s inception.

As a leader in the HR space, Jones notes how the increasing work-from-home opportunities are complicating the task of HR managers and executives to consistently generate employee networking ideas and retain talent. Bridgio addresses this through its easy-to-set-up software to create virtual experiences that drive better employee connections across various organizational departments.

Before commencing a virtual experience, Bridgio’s employee relationship engine circulates information about the attendees, allowing employees to find commonalities with each other, understand the overall company culture, and better contribute their innovative insights during the meeting.

Recently, Bridgio collaborated with a healthcare brand’s merger and acquisitions department to help them mitigate their employee attrition problems. In this instance, the client wanted to acquire therapists for their growing outpatient therapy practices. Bridgio initially conducted an employee survey to evaluate the number of individuals with an established pool of peers in their local community and connections within their organization. The survey concluded that 63 percent of employees were not connected with anyone outside their clinic, while 54 percent agreed they were only familiar with those in their direct teams.

If a water cooler is the only workplace element that brings your employees together, then you are lagging on equipping your offices with intuitive, tech-driven employee engagement solutions. Operations today need tools specifically designed for the evolving communication needs of digitalized environments

Bridgio enhanced the relationship between in-house therapists and their local and national counterparts. It also deployed strategies to drive better discussions across disparate departments. Fast forward eight weeks, Bridgio’s second survey highlighted that 80 percent of employees had strong relationships with many therapists outside their facility, and 75 percent felt more connected to employees beyond their immediate team. In essence, it helped the client significantly decrease their attrition rates and markedly improve employee engagement.
Leveraging its seasoned industrial psychology mentors, professors, and experts, Bridgio aims to develop virtual employee engagement solutions that efficiently and effectively help organizations maintain the health of their network and employees in a fun way. It is continually rethinking virtual connections with the goal to create human connections capable of driving organizational innovation.