Employee Experience Strategy

Great customer experiences start with people who can deliver them.

Capable people do their best work when the experience around them supports them. A strong employee experience connects the moments that matter, makes work easier to navigate, and creates the conditions for people to perform.

What happens on the inside of an organisation is felt on the outside by customers.

- Shep Hyken

Our clients that trust in us

What's getting in the way of great work?

Good people do their best work when the experience around them enables them to. The key is to uncover where friction is getting in the way, identify the moments that matter most, and focus improvement where it will make the greatest difference.

See the experience through your people's eyes

Understand what people need, value and experience, and where the employee journey is creating unnecessary friction.

Find the moments that matter

Identify the moments and interactions that have the greatest impact on how people work, connect and contribute.

Make it easier to do great work

Turn insight into practical improvements that help people navigate, contribute and perform with greater confidence.

Any of these feel too close for comfort?

People spend too much time navigating systems, processes and handovers

People are creating workarounds just to get things done

Different teams are having very different employee experiences

We know EX needs work, but not where to start

New platforms, policies and ways of working aren’t landing

EX MATURITY ASSESSMENT

Your best people shouldn’t have to be brilliant at navigating bad work.

Let's make the experience around them work better.

Developted through Torque’s Employee Experience practice, now part of LRMG.

Employee Experience Value Chain

People need an employee experience that helps them understand what matters, adapt quickly and perform. Your people in the room, our facilitator, and a decision by the end of it. No proposal, no discovery phase, no ninety day diagnostic. If we cannot move it in a day, you will at least know why it hasn’t moved in a year.

We hire capable people, then make them navigate clunky systems, unclear processes and organisational handovers.

And somehow we’re surprised when performance gets harder.

Sally Acton, Chief Experience and Innovation Officer, LRMG SA

Where does the friction usually hide?

What happens inside shows up outside. Your customers feel the systems, support and leadership your people experience every day. Strengthen the EX behind the work, so your people can bring more of their capability, energy and ambition to every interaction.

Employee Experience Strategy and Consulting

Set a clear, evidence-led direction for Employee Experience

Set one clear direction for EX. Use employee insight and business priorities to decide what needs attention first, where EX effort could make the greatest difference and what progress should look like.

Best times to use:

Leaders need evidence to prioritise EX investment and build a credible business case
Employee insight is not yet influencing business priorities or workplace decisions
An existing EX strategy needs fresh direction or is not producing visible progress
You need one EX direction that can adapt across countries, operating contexts, functions and workforce groups

Employee Experience Design

Design clearer, more consistent employee experiences

Design the moments when people join, work, grow and perform so they support what people need to do and how you want them to feel. Shape communication, manager support, systems, tools and workplace touchpoints around an experience that is easier to access, navigate and use.

Best times to use:

You want a more consistent EX across onboarding, performance, recognition or growth
A new platform, system, tool or way of working needs to feel easier to access, understand and use
Employees and managers need clearer communication, tools or support at a specific moment
Different roles, locations or workforce groups need employee experiences designed around their realities

EX Activation, Learning, Gamification and Recognition

Make employee priorities stick through learning, participation and recognition

Give a specific EX or behaviour priority the support to stick. Targeted learning, relevant content, prompts, gamified experiences and recognition make expectations clearer, encourage useful habits and keep participation and progress visible.

Best times to use:

A culture, behaviour or workplace priority needs to be understood and applied
An onboarding, change or employee initiative needs reinforcement after launch
You want to encourage participation through relevant content, challenges, prompts or gamified activities
Recognition and rewards need to make valued behaviour and contribution more visible

Employee Journey Mapping

Map the moments that shape the employee experience

See a priority employee journey from end to end and compare the experience you intend with what people actually encounter. Journey mapping reveals the moments that strengthen or weaken connection, trust and meaning, and where your employer promise is being reinforced or lost.

Best times to use:

You need one view of the significant touchpoints and teams shaping a priority employee journey
Leaders need to understand what different workforce groups experience at key moments
You want to identify experiences worth protecting and gaps that weaken connection, trust or meaning
You need a future-state employee journey and toolkit to guide improvement

Employee Communication Strategy and Voice of Employee

Make communication clearer and employee voice count

Make communication easier to access, understand and act on, and make listening worth employees’ time. Analyse and align channels, tools, manager communication and feedback routes with different workforce needs so messages reach people, conversations improve and insight leads to visible action.

Best times to use:

Employees need to understand what is changing, why it matters and what they need to do
Listening and communication need to work across languages, locations, digital access and frontline environments
Employee voice needs to influence communication decisions and visible action
You need clearer audience insight, content planning or communication tools to support adoption or change
Communication channels, platforms or tools need to be assessed and optimised for reach, access and employee experience

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Practical EX Workshops

Bring us the EX problem that's stuck

1 day. One live challenge. The people who can move it.

Designed for EX, HR, L&D, Internal Communication, Organisational Development, Talent and business leaders who need to move a defined people priority forward.

Each workshop helps leaders and teams work through a real employee experience priority. Your people in the room, our facilitator, and a decision by the end of it. No proposal, no discovery phase, no ninety-day diagnostic. If we cannot move it in a day, you will at least know why it hasn’t moved in a year.

EX
Strategy

Reinvent your EX strategy

Connect employee reality with business direction. Clarify the outcomes your EX strategy needs to support, explore what deserves attention, identify useful measures and build a stronger case for coordinated action.

Journey
Mapping

Map a priority employee journey

Bring the teams shaping a priority journey into one room. Map the experience from end to end, identify the moments that matter and use design thinking to shape a stronger future-state journey.

Personas and
Communication

Build employee personas and communication

Understand what different workforce groups need, value and experience. Develop practical employee personas, then use them to shape more relevant communication, channel choices and an integrated listening approach.

TESTIMONIALS

One EX direction, different realities of work

Across South Africa and other African countries, employee experience can differ by language, role, location, digital access and manager practice. LRMG helps organisations shape employee experiences for diverse, distributed and changing workforces.

"Working with the team helped us hear different perspectives, focus on what really mattered, and bring our shared vision to life in the way we work together."

Team MemberLarge South African Financial Service Organisation

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Employer Brand
and EVP

Strengthen the employer promise behind the experience, so what people hear before they join continues to ring true once they’re part of it.

Inclusion
and Culture

When belonging, fairness or everyday behaviour is shaping the employee experience, focused inclusion and culture work can help more people participate and contribute fully.

Make your next
EX move count

Start with the journey, workforce group or moment where a better employee experience could make a difference.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

How do we know if our organisation needs an employee experience strategy?

An employee experience strategy may be needed when people initiatives are growing in separate parts, employee feedback is not leading to visible action or different teams own parts of the experience without alignment to one shared direction. LRMG helps you see what should be protected, changed or stopped.

What is the difference between employee experience strategy and employee engagement?

Employee engagement reflects how connected, committed and motivated people feel. Employee experience strategy addresses the systems, communication, leadership, processes and workplace moments shaping those feelings. Engagement data may show where concern exists; EX strategy helps leaders understand why and improve the conditions affecting readiness and performance.

How can employee feedback lead to visible action?

Connect employee feedback with business priorities, decide which issues deserve attention and give each action a clear owner. Employees also need to know what was heard, what will change and what cannot change yet. Listening becomes credible when people can see the follow-through.

Where should we start when employee experience varies across countries or workforce groups?

Start with the workforce group, location or employee journey where the gap is having the greatest effect. Not every experience needs to be standardised. LRMG helps you decide what should remain consistent and where communication, access, manager support or journey design should adapt.

How can we measure employee experience beyond survey scores?

Start with the experience and outcome you want to improve. Useful measures may include access, adoption, process friction, manager consistency, employee understanding, behaviour and differences between workforce groups. The measures should guide decisions and show whether the experience is improving.

What does an employee experience strategy include?

An employee experience strategy connects business priorities with employee insight and the moments shaping how people join, work, grow and perform. Depending on the need, it may cover employee journeys, experience design, communication, Voice of Employee, leadership alignment and measures that show whether the experience is improving.

Great customer experiences start with people who can deliver them.

What's getting in the way of great work?

See the experience through your people's eyes

Find the moments that matter

Make it easier to do great work

Any of these feel too close for comfort?

Your best people shouldn’t have to be brilliant at navigating bad work.

Let's make the experience around them work better.

Employee Experience Value Chain

We hire capable people, then make them navigate clunky systems, unclear processes and organisational handovers. And somehow we’re surprised when performance gets harder.

Where does the friction usually hide?

Set a clear, evidence-led direction for Employee Experience

Design clearer, more consistent employee experiences

Make employee priorities stick through learning, participation and recognition

Map the moments that shape the employee experience

Make communication clearer and employee voice count

Explore more

Strengthscope Overview

Strengthscope Infographic

Strengthscope Report

Bring us the EX problem that's stuck

EX Strategy

Reinvent your EX strategy

Journey Mapping

Map a priority employee journey

Personas and Communication

Build employee personas and communication

One EX direction, different realities of work

Explore related Talent Experience solutions

Employer Brandand EVP

Inclusion and Culture

Make your next EX move count

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

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Fast track career growth in the new world of work:

Invigorate your skills development offering:

Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics:

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Real-world scarce skills training for youth:

Learnerships:

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Work-ready graduates and interns:

GROW

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Discover why your customers buy what they buy:

Activate and strengthen sales team engagement:

Cultivate a performance-based sales culture:

Mobilise the right sales strategy:

Accelerate sales pipelines and spark growth:

Grow and sustain critical sales capabilities:

INSPIRE

People Productivity

Engage for sustainable high performance:

Future-fit your organisation for success:

Connect learning journeys to performance outcomes:

Move the needle on learning experiences:

Upskill people with new digital smarts:

NURTURE

A Performance Culture

Talent management:

Strategy and change:

Leadership and culture:

Digital transformation:

Talent assessments:

Performance enablement:

SHIFT

Leadership Perspectives

Establish a high-performance culture:

Unlock new thinking and shift mindsets:

We hire capable people, then make them navigate clunky systems, unclear processes and organisational handovers.

And somehow we’re surprised when performance gets harder.

EX
Strategy

Journey
Mapping

Personas and
Communication

Employer Brand
and EVP

Inclusion
and Culture

Make your next
EX move count