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:
Studying the use of a knowledge management system…
…within an organization, Charles Galunic and Jennifer Petriglieri together with Kishore Sengupta from INSEAD, discovered that juniors were promoted more quickly because they could connect to key people in the firm and got access to experts they would otherwise find difficult to approach. And that’s just a small part of it. Read about all their findings in this “The power of knowledge sharing” article.
If you’re about to adopt a social business collaboration…
…solution, you might want to get into these four things that Kevin Conroy believes are critical in order to enjoy the benefits such a tool could bring into your organization. Benefits like greater productivity and a great place to work that empowers employees and where a knowledge-sharing culture is encouraged and rewarded. Got you curious? Read his “Don’t launch a social business collaboration solution unless…” post in CMSWire.
Why does collaboration sometimes fail…
…in organizations? Is it because of weak leadership? Or because collaboration is confused with a vague aspiration and not a measurable value? Whatever the reasons, there are 12 key tenets to consider for a strategy for building collaboration, like integrating collaboration into organizational workflow giving employees a voice and focusing on individual and organizational benefits. Read all “12 Keys to collaborative organizational culture” here.
Millennials want to make a difference and…
…they want to help. And you won’t manage to engage them only by offering a healthy paycheck. They’ll want to form personal connections and be mentored. Why you should care? Because they’ll make up about 50% of the workforce by 2020. And since engagement leads to greater productivity, Matt Straz wrote this “6 Secrets to millennials’ workplace happiness” article in Mashable to get you started on retaining this generation.
What do we all have in common? We want to…
…grow! And having the potential of learning new skills is in accordance not only with personal growth, but also with organization’s wellbeing as a whole. And what better new skills resource than your colleagues? Read our latest blog post “We all want to grow” to see why we believe skills are important, but potential is crucial. And the risks you should be watching for when creating a culture that supports continuous knowledge growth.
Happy Knowledge Sharing!
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