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If this is the first you’re hearing of an Employee Advisory Board…
What exactly is an Employee Advisory Board?
Why should you implement one in your company?
So that the Leadership Teams can have fast-track access to knowing what the employees really need and feel.
Ruxandra Popescu, Webinar Specialist at TravelPerk
To give more voice and opinion to be heard and followed up on by the company in a transparent way which keeps or changes the company culture for the best.
Brandon Smith, Enterprise Sales Manager at TravelPerk
To create a safe environment for any employee (across departments, offices, etc.) to openly & candidly contribute to an ongoing feedback loop around improving culture, well-being, & employee happiness.Mira Wise, Marketing Ops & Automation at TravelPerk
Mira Wise, Marketing Ops & Automation at TravelPerk
In a fast-paced hyper-growth environment, the EAB acts as a gatekeeper of your company's culture, values, and employees' wellbeing. It's approachable as its members span across departments and functions, it's a safe space as conversations happen in confidence and it's accountable as the topics raised are discussed and addressed. By setting up an EAB function in your company, you break the hierarchy as anyone from the company can feel they have direct access to raise a topic with your CEO. Likewise, your CEO has direct visibility on the pulse and can adjust sails accordingly. Establishing an EAB in your company means you are open to listening, willing to discuss and debate, and ready to follow through with action when needed. We have many successful examples of how this has been working for us at TravelPerk.
Effie Kyrtata, Head of Implementation at TravelPerk
Behind the curtain of TravelPerk’s own EAB
So, how and why did we set up an EAB at TravelPerk? When it came down to it, we realized that our organization had grown beyond the point where we could tap our CEO, Avi, on the shoulder and go grab a beer with him. Granted, we still try to do that, but we’ve grown to be a company of over 600 people across 6 offices worldwide. Hypergrowth was one of the first factors that predicated our need for an EAB.We set this up for the first time back in 2018, and the first year was dedicated to figuring out how it would work. Or even if it would work. We looked at how to maintain open lines of communication as our company grew, as well as how to transmit our company culture to all new joiners and new offices.Then came COVID-19 - a force no one expected. People were affected by this crisis in so many different ways and it became harder to see what was going on in the company because we were physically separated for months on end. The focus of the EAB turned to maintaining the peace, staying in tune with the ebbs and flows of employee sentiment, and getting onto the cutting room floor of how we were eventually going to work. That is our biggest challenge as we head into the new normal.
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