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Application Employees and organisation

Consult your constituency anonymously for a well-founded position.

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The occasion Works council constituency consultation

For important proposed decisions, the works council wants to know how employees experience them and which concerns and ideas are alive among employees.

What you achieve
  • Gather substantive perspectives from employees and discover which views are widely recognised

A works council has little time and limited resources to hear its constituency. Drop-in sessions and surveys show only part of what is going on.

The approach 3 steps

From question to a next step people stand behind

We guide every step. What we mainly ask of you is substance: two meetings beforehand and a co-moderator during the session.

  1. Step 1

    Gather experiences and concerns

    Example“Which consequences of the proposed reorganisation affect you the most?”

  2. Step 2

    Understand what is going on

    ExampleConcerns about workload receive broad support; concerns about the new location far less so.

  3. Step 3

    Use the input for the position or advice

    ExampleThe works council backs up its advice with the points that are shared most widely.

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Example Works council constituency consultation

What the dialogue can look like

A fictional example: the question you ask, what participants write and which messages get the most support.

Proposed reorganisation

The works council wants to give well-founded advice.

The question
  1. Which consequences of the reorganisation affect you the most?
  2. What must the works council definitely include in its advice?
What participants write
  • The work stays the same, but with fewer people.85% agree
  • I want to know where my role will land.81% agree
Most support
  1. The work stays the same, but with fewer people.85% agree
  2. I want to know where my role will land.81% agree
  3. There is no plan for workload during the transition period.80% agree
  4. Communicate per department, not only via the intranet.74% agree

Why Upvoice

Why Upvoice for this topic

  1. 01

    Anonymity

  2. 02

    Qualitative depth

  3. 03

    Scale

  4. 04

    Broadly supported insights

What you receive 4 parts

A report the organisation can act on

You see the main themes during the session itself. The synthesis follows the same day.

  1. 01

    Positions with the most support

  2. 02

    Concerns and conditions that are widely shared

  3. 03

    Differences between departments or locations

  4. 04

    A summary for the advice

With Synthetron Full service

This is how we guide your question

You work with a dedicated guide who knows your sector. You provide most of the content. We make sure the dialogue runs smoothly and the outcome is usable.

  1. 01

    Question and design

    We sharpen your question together and design the rounds, the invitation and the communication to participants.

  2. 02

    Live guidance

    During the session we moderate, probe what stands out and make sure everyone takes part safely and anonymously.

  3. 03

    Interpretation and report

    We analyse the outcomes and turn them into a report with recommendations your organisation can build on.

Want your own team to run it? You can do that with an Upvoice licence

Discuss your question

Questions about works council constituency consultation

Is your question not listed? Ask it in an introductory call.

Is anonymity guaranteed?

Yes. Each participant receives a random code instead of a name. No one can trace a message back to a person, not even the works council.

How quickly does the works council have the outcome?

You see the main themes during the session, and the report follows the same day. That way the council quickly has a well-founded picture of what its constituency thinks.

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