Every Friday, we prepare for you a short digest with news covering subjects related to employee engagement, collaboration, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership and the future of work.
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Here’s this week’s brief:
You digital workplace team may be high…
…on technology if you keep hearing things like “there are too many tools already” or “not another new system”, says Elizabeth Marsh. But why do some teams get all excited about having new tools? Because they get enthused by what it can do for them, it helped them work more easily and effectively. So using technology that helps employees do what they do better is the key to adoption. Read the point Elizabeth makes in her “Why the Best Digital Workplace Teams Don’t Get High on Tech” article featured in CMSWire.
How will work get done over the next…
…few years? Jacob Morgan tries to answer to this question by listing seven principles of the future employee. One of these principles is that the future employee won’t hoard information, but on the contrary, share it, growing their careers and becoming future leaders. And collaborative technologies will be their magic device to do so. Curios what the other six are? Read his complete article in Forbes “The 7 Principles of the Future Employee” to go through all.
Strong leadership with weak management is…
…no better than the reverse. It isn’t enough for an organization to only focus on one, while ignoring the other, says Dr. John P. Kotter. He underlines that the two processes are distinctive, but at the same time complementary, and that a business needs both in order to succeed. If you’d like to know more about what type of corporate culture supports this type of rapport, read his article “What Leaders Really Do” in Harvard Business Review.
“The future of talent has arrived”…
…says Meghan M. Biro. So what are the first things to consider when thinking about recruiting, evaluating and retaining the 21st century workforce? She offers five – not to choose from, but to band together: creating a collaborative workplace environment, connecting with them using the same tools and technology they use, building a community. Read to what she has to say on this Forbes article, “The Old Ways Are Not Working” featured in Forbes.
Keen on making collaboration work…
…in your organization? Working on an internal communication strategy that would boost productivity? Then there are some things that you should be aware of, because they’re the main obstacles to stand in your way. Your organization doesn’t have to be just a place where people come to work in order to get they’re paycheck, but a community. Four words: hierarchy – processes – tools – culture. Check their effects on our latest blog post, “The 4 Enemies of Collaboration”.
Happy Knowledge Sharing!
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