3 Ways Interactive LED Screens Can Make Business Better

You have to feel sorry for those shiny, impressive interactive LED display screens. Consigned to wow-factor showcasing,  global conference  or specialist production studio duties, they’re overlooked and underused as a super-effective tool for corporate business improvement. 

But more and more, savvy business folks are realizing the potential. Outside showcasing and conferences, they’re using interactive LED display screens to improve operations, boost productivity, sharpen communications and, yes, even strengthen employee engagement. 

So, how can you put it into practice? Let’s take a look.

Quick explainer: What’s an interactive LED display?

It’s a touchscreen-enabled digital screen that lets your people view, share and engage with content in real-time. Unlike traditional projectors or static monitors, it offers higher resolution, super-vibrant visuals, and responsive multi-touch capabilities.

Putting the fun into functionality: the new breed of interactive LED displays.

First, what makes this new breed of smart displays different from traditional office AV systems? What‘s the tech that maximises its usability? 

Taking our own OL series as an example,  you’re looking at:

• Pixel pitch, brightness and display size calibrated for immersive vibrancy and colour. The quality and depth of display makes anything worth watching.
• Wide-angle cameras, face tracking capability, and built-in speakers to improve multi-user experience and make human interaction more, well, human.
• Multiple input and output ports for media versatility.
• Multiple split screens for diverse browsing, multi-content capability and reduced tab switching fatigue.
• Touchpoints powered by lag-free infrared, rather than electrical conductivity. This makes it possible for your people to interact together, rather than one at a time, and they can touch with pretty much anything – finger, stylus, banana –  their choice.
• Portability: designed for intuitive assembly and pack up, as well as floor and wall mounting choices. 
• Instant connectivity with the apps and tools your team already uses, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack or Google Meet.

The tech might be complex, but its purpose is simple: to reduce the barriers to fast, natural, human communication. It’s designed to be flexible, accessible and functional, and to align with how people actually work together in the real world. 

This means when you’re looking for better communication, stronger teamwork, or deeper engagement, an interactive LED screen is a tool that can really make a difference.

3 ways touchscreen LED panels can improve your business.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways an interactive LED can make a positive impact in your workplace.

We’ll also show you some quick, easy wins – how you can use your digital screen to boost employee engagement and make onboarding a better experience for your new hires.

Benefit 1: Improved Productivity

Improved productivity comes in all the flavors and sizes. It might mean faster speed to market. It might mean reducing timewasting. It might mean helping teams  become more competitive. Smart displays help to improve productivity in these and a myriad other ways, for example, by:

Saving Time and Tedium

How often have you lost the will to live during rambling, top-down meetings? Ineffective meetings waste thousands of hours and are a major productivity killer. A smart display can eliminate wasted hours with:

• Fast, inclusive brainstorming by hands-on digital whiteboarding.
• Instant access to data, files and cloud apps you need to keep that meeting trotting along nicely.
• Speedy, real-time idea collation.
• Tech that actually works: Wide angle cameras, clarity of sound, and interactivity lets attendees see and hear more clearly. 

Don’t need to be there in-person? Take part remotely just when you’re needed, and use those extra hours you’ve saved to do something more productive (or fun).

Faster Decision Making

Innovation-boosting decisions often get stuck in the decision-making circle of death, because you don’t have vital information to hand. Or maybe the specialist you need lives a continent away.

That’s not a problem, because the speedy connectivity and multi-screen sharing capabilities of an interactive LED screen will help you get to that decision faster. Your team will be able to:

• Present, edit and make notes on ideas in real time.
• Share content and data from anywhere.
• Make and share decisions and action plans instantly.
• View live external data relevant to their work (e.g. stock prices) for instant action.

More Inclusive Collaboration

Hybrid workforces have their advantages, but effective collaboration isn’t usually top of the list. To get hold of those valuable ideas from your remote workforce, you’ll need to bridge the gap between them and your in-office people. Very often, online meetings can make remote workers feel like passive observers rather than active contributors. 

Here’s where you can make remote workers feel included and more open to contribute their expertise.

A quality interactive LED setup, with face tracking and wide-angled detachable cameras gives every participant, no matter where they’re based, a more dynamic and visual way to share their thoughts. They’re not in the room with you, but they’ll almost feel that they are.

Good tech breaks down barriers to communication.

Benefit 2: Employee engagement

An engaged workforce is a productive one.  It’s as simple as that. Here’s how to make it happen:

Boost Motivation

For a low-cost, high-impact way to encourage healthy competition between teams, use your interactive LED display to gamify work. You’ll need quantifiable metrics, like KPIs, project milestones, sales targets or response times, to play.

Simply turn your smart display into a sales leaderboard or countdown timer (or whatever you’re measuring) to display real-time results. Add in some celebration graphics and fun sound effects when there’s something to celebrate or someone to recognize, or display a choice of rewards for winners to select.

Note – gamifying impossible targets won’t boost authentic employee engagement, no matter how fancy your display.  Not even our super-smart OL Series can save you.

Support Onboarding

You’ve spent time and money recruiting those amazing new hires, but the quality of your induction process will dictate whether they love you, or leave you for another job fast. We’re not saying that a fancy bit of tech can help improve your induction process and reduce the chance of the revolving door, but that’s exactly what we’re saying.  

Here’s where your smart display really shines  – and not just because it’s a cool piece of tech that gives your new hire the impression that you know what you’re doing (even if you don’t).  Smart displays can support your onboarding process by deepening engagement and personalization.

Use your screen for:

• Touchscreen onboarding sessions, interactive information, maps and skill learning modules for new hires to work through.
• A suite of videos and activities that will help to embed the company culture and expectations. 
• Team welcome meetings, challenges, icebreakers, quizzes and “get to know you” sessions, to help new hires feel a sense of belonging – especially useful for remote teams
• Live Q&A sessions with leaders or subject matter experts.
• Gamified personalised progress tracking to support feelings of achievement and recognition.
• Instant access to HR policies, job descriptions and other corporate information.
• Themed days, such as wellness, pension planning, or community volunteering.
  

Gather Employee Feedback

Gathering employee feedback should be more than just the annual survey that everybody ignores. Feedback is more useful and actionable when it’s gathered quickly, easily and in real-time. 

Using smart displays to gather feedback improves the process and the impact, by:

• Encouraging participation: It’s so much easier and more engaging for your staff to tap and select survey responses. You’ll get more comprehensive, accurate data when more people participate.

• Giving you real-time results, making it easy for you to spot trends and address a small whinge before it becomes a big problem.
• Allowing greater anonymity for unfiltered feedback: Anonymous touchscreen voting or no-name digital suggestion boxes give you deeper insight into what your people are really thinking. 

And, if you act on the feedback (of course you will!) you’ll get even deeper engagement.

Benefit 3: Enhance Corporate Branding

It’s trite because it’s true – first impressions count. Theatrical people call it “dressing the space”, and a snazzy, dynamic interactive LED screen dressing your reception area makes your business feel innovative, modern and confident to anyone walking through the door.

But it’s more than just a pretty face. Smart displays are a useful tool to reinforce your brand personality, and it’s easy to change up the content with company news and achievements, welcome messages, and live updates.

Smart Screens, Smarter Business: How to Get Started.

If you’re interactive LED display-curious, it’s easy to find out what’s possible. Start by checking out our brand spanking new OL series, that we designed specially as a multi-purpose comms tool for any office.

Need more ideas on how to use it in your space? Contact us and drop us a line, we’re happy to help!