Can we turn kids into grown-ups in just two months?
Even though our kids are digital natives, after watching mine ‘work from home’ for 30 days or so, I know they’re struggling too. We’re watching them try to adhere to all sorts of business rules and we’re disappointed when they can’t.
When you share what you know
Sharing what you know need not be impolite when it comes from a good place. Be a little vulnerable. Offer advice to stop someone else’s train from crashing. Share some work in progress and ask how it could be improved. You may be surprised at the response you get.
Educator, entertainer, help desk & cheerleader. The many hats of a community manager
If you want to have a thriving enterprise social network, you need to have professional community managers leading the effort to ensure communities are strategic, relevant and valuable to the organisation and the people engaging in them. What follows is a rough role mandate for a community manager, based on input from people in the job.
Six lessons about connection from a karaoke night out
According to an exploratory study on employee silence, employees stay tight-lipped about problems and issues at work because they’re fearful of being viewed negatively and they’re concerned about the knock-on effects this will have on their relationships at work. And just as I thought I might die of embarrassment from singing on stage, the research showed employees are genuinely fearful of their career prospects suffering as a result of speaking up.
Make good technology choices. But put people first in the digital workplace
Just like an all-you-can-eat dessert bar, tech vendors are tempting us with the alluring promise we’ll enjoy eating their sweet treats. The irony of the march into the digital age is the further we go, the more we realise being ‘digital’ isn’t about teaching people how to use tools. Instead, the main game is helping people get into the right headspace to want to try new ways of working.
Why we eat broccoli and how to avoid enterprise social indigestion
It took an awfully long time for my children to learn to eat broccoli. It was put in front of them many, many times and the dietary benefits of it explained. After a while, eating it became habitual. This is the landscape we face when it comes to the use of social technologies in our organisations. We must help our people learn to eat ‘broccoli’ by helping them work out loud and share what they know in social channels.
Weight training and finding your enterprise social muscles
Building your enterprise social muscles plays out in the same way as it does with weight training in the gym. Once you make the leap and use social at work in more purposeful ways, you’ll get a bigger benefit from it.
Losing control and other myths about enterprise social networking
If you’re not already using social media or your organisation doesn’t value it, taking a leap into enterprise social could feel like jumping out of a plane for the first time. Exciting and terrifying.