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What Frontline Workers Managers Want

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Support, stabilize, enable: Our research reveals what the frontline workforce actually wants

Two people reviewing data and graphs on a laptop

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Two people reviewing data and graphs on a laptop" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

What’s wrong with learning measurement today (and how to fix it)

A diverse group of people at a work party in a restaurant

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="A diverse group of people at a work party in a restaurant" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Ongoing Development, Trends

How to squeeze the most value out of your next RSVP

Shattered Glass

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Workplace violence is on the rise—here’s how training can keep your teams safe

Axonify Grocery Associate Overcoming Frontline Performance Hurdles RedThread Research

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Axonify Grocery Associate Overcoming Frontline Performance Hurdles RedThread Research" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

Overcoming frontline performance hurdles with RedThread Research

Resized Axonify Grocery Associates Belonging

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Resized Axonify Grocery Associates Belonging" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized-Axonify-grocery-associates-belonging.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

4 proven ways to promote a more inclusive work environment

Atd Show Floor

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1024x768.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Atd Show Floor" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1024x768.png 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-300x225.png 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-768x576.png 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-2048x1536.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training, Trends

Dispatches from ATD23: Tuesday

Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Technology and Product

From 2000 to 2050: Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today

Employee Standing In Retail Store

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Employee Standing In Retail Store" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

Retail and grocery associates feel scared to go to work—how the right training can ease their fears

Professional Meeting

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Professional Meeting" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-768x513.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

How to prepare your F&I workers for difficult conversations

Retail grocery manager onboarding new associate

Training to win: 8 mistakes to avoid when onboarding retail employees

Woman taking inventory stock in a warehouse that has wifi connected products

Technology and Product

How to make retail tech a game-changer for the associate experience

Lady On Her Phone

Mobile Learning

How to deliver BYOD training & comms your frontline will love

Storm clouds rolling over a shallow cove

On-the-job Performance

Is your organization ready for the next disruption?

The Axonify Team at ATD 2022

ATD22 recap: Top 3 L&D trends and challenges for 2022

Members 1st Employee Shaking Hands With Client

Customer Stories

How Members 1st builds confident associates by taking a deep dive into data

All Posts

What Frontline Workers Managers Want

<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="What Frontline Workers Managers Want" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/what-frontline-workers-managers-want.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Support, stabilize, enable: Our research reveals what the frontline workforce actually wants

Two people reviewing data and graphs on a laptop

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Two people reviewing data and graphs on a laptop" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Statistics-on-laptop.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

What’s wrong with learning measurement today (and how to fix it)

A diverse group of people at a work party in a restaurant

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="A diverse group of people at a work party in a restaurant" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/people-at-party.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Ongoing Development, Trends

How to squeeze the most value out of your next RSVP

Shattered Glass

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Shattered Glass" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass-768x512.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shattered_glass.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Workplace violence is on the rise—here’s how training can keep your teams safe

Axonify Grocery Associate Overcoming Frontline Performance Hurdles RedThread Research

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Axonify Grocery Associate Overcoming Frontline Performance Hurdles RedThread Research" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-grocery_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230306_P0010605-copy-2-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

Overcoming frontline performance hurdles with RedThread Research

Resized Axonify Grocery Associates Belonging

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4 proven ways to promote a more inclusive work environment

Atd Show Floor

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1024x768.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Atd Show Floor" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1024x768.png 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-300x225.png 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-768x576.png 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ATD-show-floor-2048x1536.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training, Trends

Dispatches from ATD23: Tuesday

Axonify At Atd

Dispatches from ATD23: Monday

internal communication examples

Communication, Engagement

8 internal communication examples for engaging frontlines

A cashier handling a purchase made by a customer

Retail manager burnout: 5 prevention tactics for retail leaders

internal communications audit

How to run an internal communications audit (+free worksheet!)

3 challenges facing retail in 2023

Modern Training

3 retail training challenges impacting productivity in 2023

Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/axonify-retail-store_Robert-Lowdon-Photography_20230314_axonify-store08230-copy-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Technology and Product

From 2000 to 2050: Secrets from L&D’s past that can help future-proof businesses today

Employee Standing In Retail Store

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Employee Standing In Retail Store" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-300x225.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-768x576.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Employee-standing-in-retail-store.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

Retail and grocery associates feel scared to go to work—how the right training can ease their fears

Professional Meeting

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Professional Meeting" decoding="async" srcset="https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-300x200.jpg 300w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-768x513.jpg 768w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://axonify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Professional-meeting.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />

Modern Training

How to prepare your F&I workers for difficult conversations

How To Perform A Frontline Employee Tech Stack Audit

Technology and Product

How to perform a frontline employee tech stack audit

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