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.
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.
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.