Help Your Remote Workers Stay Connected
Many companies are increasingly embracing virtual teams and allowing…
Continuous Learning and The Digital Workplace – A Two-Part Webinar
Our workplaces are changing constantly, and competition to get and retain the best talent is growing. New job roles and opportunities are being developed daily, and workers are increasingly looking for companies that can provide value to them, too. According to research by Willis Towers Watson, “More than one-quarter of employees are in a high-retention-risk […]
Collaboration Tools Help a Geographically Distributed Team
The Future of Work promotes flexibility, and offering remote work to employees is a growing trend. According to FlexJobs, a company that promotes freelance and teleworking jobs, “68% of U.S. workers say, in the future, they expect to work remotely instead of commute to an office every day.” Collaboration tools maintain the productivity and efficiency of […]
Collaboration for Innovation
Leaders at innovative companies must focus on building a community. Good leaders create the environment set for innovation, by creating a workplace where individual slices of genius can be fostered and collected into collaborative powerhouses. To unleash the innovation within your organization, you must tap into the talents and passions your employees have to create […]
Strategy First: The Importance of an Overarching Digital Strategy
Many organizations desire a digital strategy centered around communication and collaboration. A hub that engages colleagues by fostering social collaboration and unlocking collective business memory is critical to the success of a business. This hub builds a vibrant community of knowledge. It is important not to overlook strategy while implementing digital tools and technologies. If […]
Intranet Profile: Setting Guidelines for Profile Photos
Community managers of a company’s intranet or Enterprise Social Network can spend countless hours answering the same questions around profiles when rolling out a new platform. Believe it or not, one of the most challenging parts of getting employees to fully complete their intranet profile is uploading a profile picture. Depending on the size of the […]
Intranet Profile: FILL IT OUT!
Employees take pride in making their work area and desk personable; their profile on a company’s intranet or Enterprise Social Network should be the same. An employee intranet profiles tells the story of every individual member of an organization. The larger the company, the more important it is for an employee’s contact information and skills […]
Lesson 5: Working Out Loud in Small Teams
A collaborative post with Enterprise Strategies’ Internal Digital Strategy Advisor- Lesley Crook, Consultant- Jackie Mills and Community Manager- Kelsey Steuer. At Enterprise Strategies, we partner with our clients to Deliver the Future of Work–including launching social tools and encouraging adoption of new platforms. Internally, our team understands the benefits of working digitally and we follow […]
Lesson 2: Speed up employee on-boarding by Working Out Loud
What was the problem you were trying to fix? How to create an online collaborative community that immerses new starters into the organisation. The goal being to help new starters get up to speed with who we are, what we stand for as a company, gain useful insight into how we are structured, and how […]
#wolweek: How I joined Netherlands Working Out Loud (WOL) Circle
This post originally appeared on Lesley Crook’s LinkedIn. In the past two weeks I’ve gotten to hangout with some really cool Dutch people, talking Dutch. However, I live in the UK and do not speak a word of Dutch. This has been enabled by Facebook machine-based translation and meeting Marleen Olde @Socialnow in Amsterdam a […]