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PHS Group: Yammer Case Study with Q&A
Join us with Amy Ellis from PHS Group where she's sharing how PHS were able to transform its communication culture in just one year! Particularly with the support from leaders and Amy details just how important their role plays in this transformation.
Juniper Networks: Community Branding
Join Kevin Crossman from Juniper Networks as he takes you through the visual design of the community icon and cover photo as a key method to reinforce organizational culture and to build confidence with users. Viva Engage displays the icon and cover photo differently than in Yammer, causing community owners to reconsider the imagery used previously. In this session, Kevin will discuss these considerations and share some examples of effective community branding elements, approaches to community types, and an example style guide.
Social learning in action
A Yammer community can become social learning in action and what better way to learn than from your own colleagues. Social learning on Yammer means it can be scaled across geographies and operate at very low cost.
Is organisational change needed to make Microsoft Teams a success?
It’s well accepted that any significant technology implementation must be accompanied by an organisational change program if it’s to succeed. The implementation of Microsoft Teams certainly qualifies as a significant technology implementation but how disruptive is it likely to be to your organisation?
Enterprise Social Networks: An Alternative to Major Cultural Change Programs?
I've written before about how we need to move beyond the ubiquitous “culture survey” into real-time digital sensing, where we draw cultural assessments from how employees actually behave online.
It’s Time to Get Down and Dirty With Culture and Change
While the digital world has experienced tsunami-levels of change since 1996, the same cannot be said for the world of organizational change management.
How Workplace is changing company culture to deliver a better product
Global creative agency We Are Social enjoys an active, productive global digital community for its 750 employees and can claim Workplace from Facebook as a truly integral part of its business and culture. We Are Social shares its experience to achieve success on Workplace.
How Flight Centre used Workplace to save a man’s life
Not too many companies can claim they saved a life using their Workplace network. Global travel agency Flight Centre can.
Engagement 3.0? SWOOP has you covered
We were intrigued and somewhat excited when we saw HR guru Josh Bergin’s take on the evolution of the Employee Engagement marketplace. Bergin is an internationally renowned HR, People and Talent analyst, who recently provided his Top 5 Digital trends in HR.
Employee Experience Isn't About Mapping Journeys, It's About Bridging Organizational Tribes
Talking about employee engagement as it relates to customer engagement is all the rage these days. The idea being that happy employees equal happy customers. And along the way, some hijacked the “Customer Journey” terminology to speak of “Employee Journeys,” with the inference that a happy employee journey — typically defined by the HR touchpoints of recruitment, on-boarding, learning and development, performance assessment and exit — leads to happy customers. This analogy falls apart at journey’s end: The customer journey ends with a sale. The employee journey ends with the person leaving.
Are People Analytics the Answer to Your Employee Engagement Woes?
Deloitte's Human Capital Trends 2017 report identified "Organization of the Future" as its leading trend. The report went on to note a big shift in the way employees engage with each other, from hierarchies to networks. This social theme was reinforced in the company's 2018 report, which highlighted the rise of the “social enterprise.” The report placed an organization’s social capital as an enterprise asset on par with traditional physical and intellectual property assets. Deloitte emphasized the importance of a harmonized leadership team in building the social enterprise, with collaboration needed at all levels.
Facilitating Organisational Change with SWOOP
Just take a moment and think about the last 2 or 3 major organizational change programs that you have been party to (or a victim of). Invariably the change will have something to do with wanting to change the way people work and interact with each other in your organization. Perhaps it was triggered by a significant structural change, a merger, or acquisition. Perhaps it was around a major technology refresh. Or perhaps even a significant change in company strategy, triggered by a disruptive change in the marketplace. Whatever the reason, invariably you will be asked to adapt your behavior to become more adaptive, responsive and collaborative; because change has now become a constant.