Heardby samples

Samples

One shift, from first conversation to the next round.

Fictional site, invented data. 24 of 31 completed.

Follow one shift

Northline Distribution, Night shift

  1. 1Stay report
  2. 2Hear back
  3. 3What moved
  4. 4Team brief
  5. 5Job preview
  6. 6Open line digest

The report

Nine ways to hear what this shift needs, with themes raised by five or more people.

Stay report sample from Northline Distribution

Stay report

What would make people stay?

Why people stay, what would make them leave, and what to do first.

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Exit report sample from Northline Distribution

Exit report

What would leavers have needed to stay?

What leavers would have needed to stay, beside the stay report.

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Ask before a change sample from Northline Distribution

Ask before a change

What would this change mean for the crew?

What a longer shift would mean before the decision is made.

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Floor check sample from Northline Distribution

Floor check

What gets in the way of a good shift?

Equipment delays and workarounds, ranked by how many raised them.

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First 30 days sample from Northline Distribution

First 30 days

What do new starters wish they’d known?

What new starters wish they had known before their first shift.

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Benefits in plain words sample from Northline Distribution

Benefits in plain words

What needs explaining about the benefits?

What the crew understands about benefits and what needs explaining.

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Did they understand it? sample from Northline Distribution

Did they understand it?

What should we explain differently?

What to explain differently after a rule or training, never a training record.

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Schedule constraints sample from Northline Distribution

Schedule constraints

What pattern can the crew work?

Whole-team counts for start times, hard stops, days and notice.

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How pay works here sample from Northline Distribution

How pay works here

What do people believe about pay?

Beliefs about raises and differentials, checked against invented Northline pay facts.

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After the report

Tell the crew what you heard, prepare the huddle, then see whether the promises held.

Hear back sample from Northline Distribution

Hear back

The themes the team raised and the employer’s three-line response.

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Promises kept sample from Northline Distribution

What moved and promises kept

A second report opens with What moved and two promises kept.

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Joint round, steward view sample from Northline Distribution

Joint round, steward view

What the union representative sees: the same report and both sides’ promises.

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Practice the huddle sample from Northline Distribution

Practice the huddle

Six exchanges with the fictional crew, followed by feedback.

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You said. We're doing. sample from Northline Distribution

You said. We're doing.

The poster that makes the employer’s commitments visible.

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Huddle script sample from Northline Distribution

Huddle script

The report-grounded words for telling the crew what happens next.

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Between rounds

Keep listening and let the crew’s experience reach the next person joining the shift.

Open line sample from Northline Distribution

Open line

The employee page and a monthly digest of recurring topics.

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Team brief sample from Northline Distribution

Team brief

What this crew tells the next person, with a one-page PDF.

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Job preview sample from Northline Distribution

Job preview

An applicant page, one-page PDF, and ready-to-copy posting text.

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Benefits

Answers from the plan documents, and recurring questions asked by five or more people.

Benefits line sample from Northline Distribution

Benefits line

Three document-grounded answers and what people are asking.

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Benefits line report sample from Northline Distribution

Benefits line report

One month of benefits questions: counts, top topics, gaps in the documents and what to fix.

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What people are asking sample from Northline Distribution

What people are asking

Recurring benefits questions, grouped only when five or more people ask.

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Floor-language tools

Put the message in plain words and check it against the themes the crew raised.

Say it for the floor sample from Northline Distribution

Say it for the floor

One attendance memo in plain English and Spanish.

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Run it by the crew sample from Northline Distribution

Run it by the crew

The same attendance memo, read through the crew’s shown themes.

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Printables