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Setting Goals and Measuring Success – A Practical Guide to Viva Engage
Tips to ensure a successful launch of Viva Engage within your organisation.
All leaders aren’t equal when it comes to digital collaboration competencies
What’s in a name? We use real data from Microsoft 365 to find the job titles with strong digital collaboration competency roles and those with weak roles. What title do you go by at work?
It’s more than “liking”
Using collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace from Facebook is more than "liking", it’s about two-way conversations to achieve business value.
One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams
Those of you struggling with working from home (WFH) may have some doubts about this, but bear with me. If I asked you “who is in your team?” could you answer easily? Or would your answer be “well that depends ... do you mean our whole department? The people I work with the most? Which team do you mean? I’m on multiple teams.”
SWOOP Chat with RACQ
Learn how one of Australia’s largest member organisations, providing roadside assistance, insurance, banking and more, is using Microsoft Teams and Yammer to keep employees connected with leaders during the COVID-19 work from home environment.
NBN boss Bill Morrow shows true leadership in response to the #MeToo campaign
As stories of sexual abuse flooded social media in response to the #MeToo awareness campaign, NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow’s thoughts went straight to his employees.
What impact do leaders have on collaboration? Show me the numbers!
One of our most enduring observations from organisations successfully using Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platforms is the important role the CEO and executive leaders have played in the network’s success.
Engagement At Scale: What Senior Leaders Need To Do
It is more important than ever for senior leaders to build trust by establishing two-way conversations with their people – at scale. In this article, we’ll give simple, practical and evidence-based tips for achieving this spending just five minutes per day. We’ll also show you how to measure this at the individual level.
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.
Executive engagement – the key to a successful Yammer network
The No.1 way to get employees engaged on a company’s Yammer network is by getting leaders to use the platform, according to communications managers at some of the world’s biggest companies. If a leader, including the CEO, is making the time to share ideas and connect on the social network platform, even the busiest front-line worker or middle manager would find it hard to explain why they can’t do so.
Executive engagement – the key to a successful enterprise social network
The No.1 way to get employees engaged on a company’s Enterprise Social Network (ESN) is getting leaders to use the platform, according to communications managers at some of the world’s biggest companies.
If a leader, including the CEO, is making the time to share ideas and connect on the social network platform, even the busiest front-line worker or middle manager would find it hard to explain why they can’t do so.
“The No.1 way to get more people on board is by saying; ‘Your leader is there, or your CEO is there, why aren’t you?’,” said Syngenta’s Communications Manager and Yammer Channel Manager, Melinda Schaller.
What makes a collaboration champion? The secrets revealed
At SWOOP Analytics, our goal is to help organisations become better and faster at collaborating.
Nothing makes us happier than seeing organisations achieve better collaboration and, ultimately, innovation in their workplace.
This year we are honouring these collaboration champions and sharing with you their best practices. We have introduced the inaugural SWOOP Awards for Outstanding Collaborative Performance in SWOOP’s 2018 Benchmarking of Yammer networks. We trawled through 12 million interactions between 1.4 million people from 74 different organisations to find these star performers.
20 Questions That Could Change Your Company
One of the things we uncovered in our research into what generates conversation was that asking questions is particularly impactful (discussion threads are 250% longer), and I previously posted a summary of our findings; ‘The power of the question mark.
Are today’s boards ill-equipped to deal with modern workplaces?
As scalps continue to fall in the banking Royal Commission, it’s become clear board members need tools to give insights and transparency into company culture. Boards need to be better technically equipped to deal with non-financial indicators like a poor or ineffective corporate culture.
A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 3 – Reflections, On-going Challenges and Lessons Learned.
We are sharing the experiences of David Thodey, the former CEO of Australia’s largest telecommunications company and strong Enterprise Social Networking advocate. In part 1 we looked at the key business issues Thodey faced in his six year tenure as CEO, and how he came to discover the ESN solution Yammer. In part 2 we traced his challenges, experiences and activities in formally adopting the platform as a key communication vehicle for the organisation. In this final part we bring it all together to provide reflections, challenges and lessons learned to those embarking on a similar path to Thodey’s.
A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 2 – Reflections on experiences “in use”
In Part 1 of this interview series with David Thodey, the former CEO of Telstra and strong Enterprise Social Networking advocate, we covered his reflections on current frustrations with communications experienced by CEOs and the discovery of Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) and Yammer. In this part we continue the journey of how he personally made use of the platform.
A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview – Part 1: Why Enterprise Social Networking?
In her article “Why No-one Uses the Corporate Social Network”, where Charlene Li bemoans the lack of leadership participation, David Thodey, the then CEO of Australia’s largest Telecommunications company, was highlighted as a rare exception. We were fortunate recently to be able to catch up with David to gain his reflections on Enterprise Social and the part it played in helping achieve Thodey’s vision for the company.
Communicating Diagonally: New Value Pathways via Enterprise Social Networking?
Traditional organisational hierarchies have proven to be poorly suited to sharing information and knowledge sideways, as designed communication pathways at the base of the hierarchy would have information move vertically upward before moving across and then downward to its waiting audience. But what about “Diagonal Communication”?
Roundabouts and Network Leadership
Mythbusters two hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, test the effectiveness of a traditional 4-way stop versus a roundabout. Having grown up with roundabouts I wasn’t particularly surprised to discover that roundabouts got almost 20% more cars through compared to the 4-way stop.
Did Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Really get it Wrong in Banning "Work from Home"?
Ordering Yahoo workers back to the office certainly gained its share of critics for Marissa Mayer when instituting this Yahoo policy some 18 months ago now. There are a couple of reasons for me to reflect on this at this point in time.