How To: Onboarding Niko
If you are an agile team of 10, or responsible for people ops and culture at a Fortune 500, we’ve got you covered 💪
Our goal is to make Niko a valued member of your team — from new ideas to resolving differences of opinion and create a shared understanding, we hope after using Niko you consider it integral to your success. To help, here are a couple of customizable “kick off” announcements to use when you are sharing Niko with your team to help explain how Niko works and get people excited about participating.
Teams of all sizes using Niko had great success with messages like these.
If you need help as you bring Niko into your company, just shoot us an email at niko@getniko.com and we can take all the guesswork out of onboarding Niko as the newest member of your team.
FOR MEDIUM TO LARGE ORGS
From: <Admin Name>
Subject: Say hello to Niko
Hi (tailored to team at org),
We are all happier and more engaged at work if our questions, suggestions, and ideas are heard and valued. When it comes to employee engagement and retention, a lot of tools are available — but after thorough research, the <people and culture, HR, steering committee> decided on one of the best tools for <organization>.
Starting today, we all have access to Niko.
Niko is employee engagement done right. Anyone at any level in the company — from interns to the CEO — can submit, vote on, and respond to questions and suggestions. Niko helps us listen and understand so we can all do remarkable things together. It even comes with a Slack integration, so you can submit, vote and comment without navigating away from work.
To get started go to https://www.getniko.com/ and sign in with your <Company Name> Google Apps account or email address.
From ‘Why don’t we have the dark chocolate covered almonds anymore?’ to ‘What is our burn rate and how long is our runway?’ If our colleagues value the question, suggestion or idea, we will address it directly and transparently. Niko will surface what is truly important to the people who make (Company) possible.
Nothing anyone submits will be held against them in any way. If you are not comfortable sharing identified as yourself, you can post anonymously.
Best,
<NAME>
FOR GROWTH STARTUPS
From: <Admin Name>
Subject: Say hello to Niko
Hey team,
As we’ve grown, it’s become harder for us to stay current on how everyone’s feeling about the company, the work, the vision, the culture, etc. I know I feel a little disconnected from everyone and I’d like to make an effort to make it better.
To help, starting today we all have access to Niko. It’s a really simple tool that is always on and gives you a way to share what is on you mind. By letting you submit, vote on, and respond to questions, ideas, and suggestions, Niko helps us listen to and understand everyone better so we can all do remarkable things together. It even comes with a Slack integration, so you can submit, vote and comment without navigating away from work (or the GIFs).
It is pretty simple to get set up. Just go to https://www.getniko.com/ and sign in with your <Company Name> Google Apps account or email address.
Please treat each other with respect (even if we don’t agree). From ‘Why don’t we have the dark chocolate covered almonds anymore?’ to ‘What is our burn rate and how long is our runway?’ If our colleagues value the question, suggestion or idea, we will address it directly and transparently.
Here are some ideas:
Are we all talk and no action on something?
Are we behind the curve on anything in particular?
Have you seen anyone do something great recently that’s gone unrecognized?
Note: Niko is optional and YMMV. I hope you’ll find it is a great way to bubble up ideas, concerns, suggestions, and questions.
Nothing anyone submits will be held against them in any way. If you are not comfortable sharing identified as yourself, you can post anonymously.
#AskMoreQuestions
Not using Niko yet? If you want to make your company a great(er) place to work and want to know what is important to the people you work with, you should try Niko.
Learn more and get started here: https://www.getniko.com/
Niko is currently in beta. We would love for you to try it out.
It’s easy to create a group. You can even connect it to Slack.
Questions? Get in touch @get_niko or niko@getniko.com.
