Identifying your internal social influencers and acknowledging their ability to leverage their influence is critical to social business success. As a result, the next step in the CHANGES Methodology is N for Network. As a leader, having ambassadors for your vision is vital. These ambassadors advocate for...
Senior executives are increasingly recognizing the value of implementing of social tools and processes in the workplace. Due to lack of time or conflicting priorities, though, many of these senior leaders do not participate in these social networks themselves. Getting Senior Executives Involved in Enterprise Social...
Is your organization leveraging your employees to promote, maintain, and enhance your brand? In this clip from the Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Client Advisor Christine McLeod brings light to the importance of business leaders becoming social by recognizing that the most critical brand...
What is the critical component of successful social business adoption in both small and large companies? Social business transformation must happen from the inside out. At Pivot Conference in New York City, Founder Andy Jankowski talked with Kare Anderson about why social business goes beyond the latest social media trends--organizations must transform...
Social technology investments could provide an increase of over $1.3 trillion in global business value annually, according to a study by McKinsey & Co. With new social tools constantly being introduced and significant advances made in online collaboration capabilities, social business offers a wealth of...
Something that you need to optimize from your employees is Time and attendance. Without your employee's engagement then work just won't be done and your business will suffer. If you doubt the value of employee engagement, it’s not hard to become a believer. On Elizabeth...
In college, I took advantage of a number of classes offered by the campus ROTC program. They had excellent courses in military history and leadership. It exposed me to a world I knew very little about. Another benefit was it allowed me to participate in...
[Update: Making this post a game!] Post a comment with one potential use of gamification at your company. Top 3 ideas (those getting the most likes) will be featured in a follow up post - clearly a fast track to extreme fame and fortune -...
You can’t throw enterprise social tools at any company and expect them to stick. Certain critical pieces have to be in place in order for the technology and the tactics to boost employee engagement, recruit and retain employees, break down knowledge silos and more for...
Employee engagement is more than a buzzword in human resources departments. As a growing body of evidence shows, and the folks at Gallup put so well, “engaged employees are more productive. They are more profitable, more customer-focused, safer, and more likely to withstand temptations to...