Your best employees have unique skill sets that create value for your organization. It’s why you hired them, after all. Unfortunately, many of your “superhero” employees can’t use those skills regularly. Instead, they’re forced to complete tasks that aren’t core to their jobs while operating within the constraints of your organization’s technology, creating frustration and disengagement. These feelings are understandable — your best employees aren’t getting to use their superpowers!

Imagine this: Clark Kent sits at his desk at The Daily Planet when crisis strikes. But he doesn’t disappear and transform into Superman so he can save the day. Expense reports are due by close of business, and he has a mountain of receipts to review. While Lex Luthor wreaks havoc on Metropolis, Clark spends hours manually approving expense reports!

Unfortunately, your employees feel as stifled as Clark reviewing receipts for $5 worth of pencils. Instead of using their superpowers to create value for your organization, your top performers waste hours performing low-value administrative tasks, searching for information, or trying to regain focus after an interruption from any number of messaging apps.

So how does Citrix Workspace’s intelligent capabilities empower HR to drive employee engagement by helping employees to do their best work? Let’s take a look.

Organize work

Keeping yourself organized at work is a job in and of itself. Each employee creates a unique system to track what needs to get done, including sticky notes, to-do lists, note-taking apps, and reminders. These makeshift time- and work-management systems are highly inefficient, force employees to context switch, and don’t provide a unified view of everything that needs to get done.

Citrix Workspace helps employees stay organized through a feed of all their outstanding tasks, business reporting, corporate communications, and more. It’s personalized for each employee, ensuring the feed shows highly relevant notifications that help them stay productive. Citrix Workspace also presents the users’ apps and files next to their feeds, making it the place to go to get work done. 

Complete Tasks Without Context Switching

Workers use apps for collaboration, communication, customer management, file sharing, and much, much more. While they need these apps to do their jobs, they generally only use a sliver of the functionality in each one. Unfortunately, this creates a scenario where they are context switching, moving from app to app to complete tasks. Context switching is a productivity killer, with research showing it can reduce productivity by up to 40 percent.

Consider an employee requesting time off. This kicks off a manager workflow that requires an email notification, entering credentials that are unique to the human capital management system, navigating to the request, and reviewing.

Citrix Workspace simplifies this process, helping employees focus on work that matters instead of low-value tasks. Let’s take a look at that time off request again, but this time in Citrix Workspace:

Here, the time-off request shows up in my feed. After a quick review, I click approve, and that’s it! No logging into a different app, no re-entering usernames and passwords, no navigating to the request after logging in. Citrix Workspace eliminates context switching, presenting only the app functionality needed to complete the request.

Develop Talent and Your Leadership Bench

Company leadership and employees are aligned on training and development: Leadership wants employees to continually develop skills and employees want more training. Organizations invest in learning management systems (LMS) and trainers to upskill their teams, only to find low participation rates among employees. So, what gives?

For many organizations, it comes down to awareness. With so much for each employee to do and so many other apps to use, checking the company LMS isn’t high on the priority list. It can also be difficult for employees to find appropriate training.

Citrix Workspace empowers HR to deliver tailored training suggestions to end users, along with the ability to enroll in a course with just one click. End users will be able to see these personalized training recommendations next to their other work tasks, ensuring they don’t need to “go somewhere else” to get visibility into the organization’s training opportunities.

Personalized recommendations tied to events like performance reviews can further drive engagement with your LMS. Let’s imagine an employee just finished their performance review with the manager. They agree that negotiation skills are an area of development for the employee in the upcoming year. Citrix Workspace’s intelligent capabilities will surface the most relevant courses in their work feed, where they can register with one click.

Cut Through the Noise with Your Employee Communications

Building and maintaining a successful organization depends on keeping your employees focused on shared goals and developing a common corporate culture. Between e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, and other communication platforms that are constantly notifying and interrupting our days, it’s difficult to cut through the noise to communicate goals and culture.

Citrix Workspace enables seamless communication with employees through the platform they use to get work done. Whether it’s communicating company financial results, notifying employees of office closing due to inclement weather, or sharing the news of a promotion, getting important messages to your employees is simplified.

Deliver a Superior Employee Experience, Enhance Your Employer Value Proposition

Giving employees tools that organize, guide, and automate their work can make a real difference, increasing motivation and engagement and helping workers perform at their best. Citrix Workspace enables organizations to deliver a superior employee experience by taking the friction out of getting work done. Ultimately, this helps employees to do more of what they love — deliver the value that sets them apart.

Learn how Citrix Workspace can transform employee experience in your organization and unlock your employees’ superpowers.