Amplify Your Human Resource Department with Social Collaboration
Each Human Resource department handles day to day operations, and any or all of the following: recruiting, screening, interviewing and placing workers. They also regularly take on employee relations, payroll, benefits, and training. Further, Human Resource managers plan, direct and coordinate administrative functions and act as a middleman between employee and management. The department is […]
People are the critical success factor for enterprise collaboration
This post originally appeared on Allison Maguire’s LinkedIn. Over the next couple of weeks I will be wrapping up some concentrated coaching of five different communities across two organizations and a host of use cases. The seeds for this enterprise community coaching service came from something I had initially developed and applied internally at a […]
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 […]
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 3: Working Out Loud in A Network from a Factory
Business Benefits What were the problems which needed to be fixed? How to efficiently and effectively connect c.2100 people across 8 primary supply pharmaceutical factories, predominantly in the UK and 2 international factories, plus collaborate with head office support function staff and management. How would you have fixed it in the past, without enterprise social networking (ESN)? One-way pushed […]
Lesson 1: Working out Loud by a Sales Team
Working Out Loud in a Network #wolan Have you tried Working Out Loud in a Network #wolan? A four-part change management approach: 1. #wolan model. Combines Working Out Loud with enterprise business tools e.g. Enterprise Social Networks. Purpose is to nurture conversations to help fix business problems, support business strategy alignment, encourage knowledge networking […]
Teach Them to Fish — Community Management Builds the Community
Last week I was working with a customer, planning for their 2016 community management education and awareness program. One thing that struck me was her reference to wanting to teach her community managers “how to fish”. I loved this analogy. Where this was coming from was that this customer, like most of those that I work with, […]
Transform the World of Work Through Inspired Leadership
Are you leading workforce and leadership transformation? Tasked with crafting new ways to drive business forward across all avenues (technology, culture, and leadership), HR professionals and executives are spearheading innovation in the workforce. Gloria Burke, senior director and Andy Jankowski, founder and managing director of Enterprise Strategies, bring inspiring thought leadership into the opening keynote […]